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It occurred to me that there will be another event next year yet without feedback the opportunity to improve the whole experience might be lost.
It was a fine event and a prize worth playing for. It missed one key element which I hope is addressed next time. The whole promotion missed tikay's personal connection to the skypoker population. Not only would tikay have been the one to help the skypoker group bond in Punta Cana but also his blogs, interviews, reports back to the UK show, forum threads would have been of great interest for all.
I think tikay was the one missing piece of the jigsaw. in hindsight, tikay should have been there. his presence this year would have heightened the profile of the promotion in 2014 and would have meant greater volumes next time in 2015.
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Lolz but true!
Hope they have a rep next time and I'll go for it!
the package included "hotel credits" worth $1500 so they say. in the event it is a scam. this sum should never be factored into to the total worth. i understand that it wasn't.
the scam is that they offer credits that you can spend on golf, massage, better wine at dinner etc. but they levy a 20% service charge on top. all very well except they have inflated the prices of such things five-fold. would you pay $200 for a round of golf or $100 to get your nails done?
i wondered about the good wine upgrade using credits and asked at dinner one night. they took away the wine list priced in dollars and replaced it with one priced in credits. a similar bottle was five times higher in credits than in dollars. $80 for a pinot grigio. so no, the house wine was just fine and all-inclusive.
my 15 minutes of fame...
from 500+ entrants. at the end of day one, i was 6th.
small consolation, knocked out day 2 by the eventual winner, Ari Engel.
Think the flight money, tournament buy in, all inclusive accommodation for 2 for a week in a hotel like that plus return transfers is pretty much the bulk of the £3700 (or w/e) package.
Wonder if they got their ironing done as well?
All of the monetary amounts above were combined to give the total value of the package. It was £700 + £70 in the final iirc and 1in5 because a package was £3500 so $1500 is a pretty decent chunk of £3500.
The BI is ~ £1k and the flights were £800, I'm assuming it wasn't almost £2k for just the hotel like... guess it's a grey area if the hotel says you HAVE to have those credits if you book but just bump up their price accordingly.
I know they list it there, but I'm sure they ain't part of the £3700, just like the welcome party wouldn't add £££ to the package price. It was an offer that the hotel were doing, you got the resort credits if you booked the exact same holiday/dates through BA for example.