| Posted by: FeelingLucky at September 8, 2005, 1:21 pm | | Topic: Royal Vegas Poker Hurricane Katrina Tournament Forum: Bonus Whores | Skimmed through the Interpoker newsletter, and I believe they were matching the sum of all buyins for their relief tourney. Also no fee was taken. And they apparently have some other promos going in the casino side as well, adding up to $10k more.
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| Posted by: wyldchyld at September 8, 2005, 1:08 pm | | Topic: Royal Vegas Poker Hurricane Katrina Tournament Forum: Bonus Whores | I just checked out the Pokerstars one and the Bugsyclub tourneys. All of the Pokerstars relief tourneys buyins matched by the site, and only 1 penny is removed from the buy-in. Bugsy club did not remove any money, but it is only a $15 buy in, they are adding $2500 to donations though, and putting up their own money for the prize poll.
I do not plan on playing these tourney, but I will sign up for at least the Poker Stars $100 one. It is great to see these sites matching money for the victims of Katrina. As usual, poker stars is a class act. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: elric at September 7, 2005, 6:24 am | | Topic: Royal Vegas Poker Hurricane Katrina Tournament Forum: Bonus Whores | As usual Royal Vegas Poker Thanks for nothing. I will play the tourneys that match funds as it will do twice as much for the Hurricane relief effort. Where your tourney donates nothing, instead you so graciously donate half of the players money and decide not to take your $2 fee out of it since it would make you look like the greedy offshore casino that you are.
Thanks but no thanks I can donate my dollars without you taking all the glory.
Tania I highly recommend you talk to some higher up at Royal Vegas Poker and ask them to match funds as your Poker Room is looking worse by the minute. Do something special... donating others money does not qualify.
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| Posted by: Royal Vegas Poker at September 7, 2005, 5:38 am | | Topic: Royal Vegas Poker Hurricane Katrina Tournament Forum: Bonus Whores | coloradoholdem wrote: and lets' point out the only reason this thread started was they were unwilling to help us with our private tournament but wanted to get a plug in for their own - according to the email sent to me anyway
Hi Colorado and other Bonus Whores,
We have not denied a request for a private tournament, I redirected you to the correct person to contact, which is Brad W at Fortune Affiliates.
Royal Vegas Poker decided to hold a tournament so that players could make a contribution and play poker and enjoy themselves at the same time.
We, as a company do make contributions for causes such as these. These are usually done in a separate capacity.
Thanks
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| Posted by: xedubx at September 6, 2005, 6:24 pm | | Topic: Royal Vegas Poker Hurricane Katrina Tournament Forum: Bonus Whores | Instead of playing this tourney, I suggest playing in either the Party one on Wed or PokerRoom one on Sat or Sun. Both sites will match the buy-in $ per $ to donate to charity. For party, 90% of the prize pool will also be donated while players have an option to donate part or all of their winning for PokerRoom.
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| Posted by: Jay at September 6, 2005, 1:11 pm | | Topic: Royal Vegas Poker Hurricane Katrina Tournament Forum: Bonus Whores | coloradoholdem wrote: and lets' point out the only reason this thread started was they were unwilling to help us with our private tournament but wanted to get a plug in for their own - according to the email sent to me anyway
Good deal for them.. they get favorable press for making a big donation, even though all the money comes directly from the players. They give up a $2 tournament fee, but that's pretty trivial..
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| Posted by: elric at September 6, 2005, 1:08 pm | | Topic: Royal Vegas Poker Hurricane Katrina Tournament Forum: Bonus Whores | Wheres the resident BW Satyr when you need him?
When PokerStars did the matching thing for the Tsunami I put my money in there because it could do twice as much good.
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| Posted by: Cha Ngo at September 6, 2005, 12:37 pm | | Topic: Royal Vegas Poker Hurricane Katrina Tournament Forum: Bonus Whores | elric wrote: Would be more impressive if the online Poker Rooms would match the players donation. Seems less painfull to just donate the $12.50 to the Red Cross since there are no matching funds or additional benefits. If the only contribution by the Poker Room is eating the entry fee I am not impressed.
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| Posted by: elric at September 6, 2005, 10:59 am | | Topic: Royal Vegas Poker Hurricane Katrina Tournament Forum: Bonus Whores | Would be more impressive if the online Poker Rooms would match the players donation. Seems less painfull to just donate the $12.50 to the Red Cross since there are no matching funds or additional benefits. If the only contribution by the Poker Room is eating the entry fee I am not impressed.
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| Posted by: Royal Vegas Poker at September 5, 2005, 6:03 am | | Topic: Royal Vegas Poker Hurricane Katrina Tournament Forum: Bonus Whores | Hi all,
Just wanted to let you all know that we are running a tournament to aid survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
The Hold'em No Limit Freezeout tournament is running on Tuesday September 6th @ 9pm EST on Royal Vegas Poker and 7 Sultans Poker.
Buy-in is $25+$0 (i.e. we are not taking any fees). 50% of prize pool goes to the Red Cross Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund, the other 50% will go the top 20 finishers, based on a percentage prize pool.
This tournament can be found under the Multi Table Tournaments section, under Special.
Thanks,
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