Poker Orifice
And Still...
Platinum Level
They don't force you to do it. It's merely an option for you to pick up some extra prizes if you choose to attempt it. If you were to read through this thread, you'll see that others are achieving it.
Why would you consider complaining to their licensing/regulators? And what do you think they'd think from reading your complaint???
Personally I chose to not partake in these 'missions' and instead played games I wanted to play in. I've gone after completing missions on other sites (ie. partypoker) and it was an easy to accomplish bonus.
Rockyfour
Visionary
Silver Level
Because the challenges are deceptive as in they aren't reasonably possible for someone to complete. On top of that, they are exploiting people to gamble more on a false promise that they will achieve X amount of dollars (because it would be fair for someone to assume all the challenges are reasonably beatable).
This really shouldn't be that difficult to understand why doing a promo in this style is unethical.
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Poker Orifice
And Still...
Platinum Level
I understand why you'd say this.... but to suggest it's worthy of reporting the site to some authority... mmm... no. (I don't think so).
Personally I never assume that any promo is going to be reasonably beatable, especially the ones involving free stuff and bonuses. I always assume that the promos are there to induce traffic on the site. Look at the ones currently on ACR... super fishy $10k freerolls with 5x $2k bounties, populated by 1,000's of new players and just super bad ones. It's an investment by the site but when you consider all the extra $$'s that will be floating up to low & mid stakes, coming from the greatly increased micro games volume, it will in turn induce more low & mid stakes players to play on there. I'm actually contemplating playing on there for a couple weeks to take advantage of the $$'s that will be on there.
All promos are to induce traffic. Most are not easy but are easy enough to entice players to play them. But it's your choice. They don't make you play. Anything extra is just a bonus and these days there isn't a lot of it happening in online poker vs. even just 10yrs. ago.
Rockyfour
Visionary
Silver Level
In canada and I'm sure many other countries have a similar thing, we have a branch of government which part of their purpose is to make sure these gambling companies are working within the public's interest.
Obviously it's not within the public's interest to have bait and switch promos, especially with how addicting gambling can be and the problems surround it.
Once someone goes through the process and challenges this, they will tell the licenses they can't do it anymore, because it's obviously not within the public's interest.
I find it really weird though that your here defending a company for running angle shoots on you. It's bizarre. I honestly can't tell if your just trolling or not.
It's like you always assume promos are there to attract new customers? Obviously this is true. However, you can't attract customers usually using deceptive means.
This is basically a more muddied version of the scam where you say 'first 300 people who buy my product get $50,000 cash in their order box', but they just don't put the $50,000 in the box lol.
You can run a promo without trying to deceive anyone.
Obviously it's not within the public's interest to have bait and switch promos, especially with how addicting gambling can be and the problems surround it.
Once someone goes through the process and challenges this, they will tell the licenses they can't do it anymore, because it's obviously not within the public's interest.
I find it really weird though that your here defending a company for running angle shoots on you. It's bizarre. I honestly can't tell if your just trolling or not.
It's like you always assume promos are there to attract new customers? Obviously this is true. However, you can't attract customers usually using deceptive means.
This is basically a more muddied version of the scam where you say 'first 300 people who buy my product get $50,000 cash in their order box', but they just don't put the $50,000 in the box lol.
You can run a promo without trying to deceive anyone.
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Rockyfour
Visionary
Silver Level
It's not about volume. To collectively be able to do all of the challenges for the final reward is very unlikely. If I do 12 tables for like 14 hrs I'm only gonna be playing like 10k hands.
These are just the ones I was given.
-win a bounty hunter MTT
-be dealt quads in hold'em and show it down (1/13300 25%Vpip hands)
-run it 3x and win all 3x in Omaha (95% of people will just will deny your request to run it 3x)
Basically a bait and switch.
kunkgreen
Legend
Platinum Level
I only completed 25 of the 30 tasks.
I don't really care about 5 of them as my honeymoon started from the second day (the game deposit delayed 2 days to enter).
The worse I won a jackpot with a week of GG! (which didn't count for the thirtieth mission of course) =)
About 2 missions were pretty dreadful, but other than that I found it very easy.
To complete them, the link below has a guide to completing the missions:
GG Poker Network Honeymoon For Newcomers Guide – Full 30 Day Honeymoon Mission Poker Playthrough
Complete playthrough guide with videos and strategy tips for all 30 days of the Natural8/GG Poker Network Honeymoon For Newcomers challenge.honeymoonmissions.com
One or the other may still have a little bit, but most are the same.
See the link above that I posted earlier... it has tips for completing the 30 days.
I'm not sure if I saw what the missions were on the gg website, but anyway with a quick google I could find them.
In my case I liked the promotion. Make me a good few bucks.
I confess that for those who make the minimum deposit it can be 'dangerous' due to the many tasks of playing in AoF (all in or fold) where the minimum bet is $1 (blind 0.1$).
On top of that I was lucky to hit a jackpot on the third day at home.
Factors that helped me make tasks easier.
