Now that's a bit of cross-marketing I wouldn't have predicted.
Interesting way for a real-money poker site to get new players by giving out timecards for Eve depending on how much you deposit. I suppose Eve might get a few new players from 4Kings existing customers if they get given timecards as well. Interesting.
The tournament is being set-up and advertised with the blessing of the Marketing Department. I have been assured that this tournament is legit.
kieron Community Manager, EVE Online
and
I have been in direct contact with the representative from 4Kings.com, as well as ACTIVEalli from the Marketing team. This is a legitimate tournament with some great prizes being offered to members of the EVE community who wish to participate and are of legal age.
4Kings are a part of the B2B poker network. (24hpoker AB sweden) 24hpoker network. 4Kings are hosted at B2B poker. 4Kings.com and CCP Games are not affiliated with each other, other than through this tournament.
4Kings is providing all the logistics and prizes. Let's try to be nice to them from here on out.
kieron Community Manager, EVE Online
and
Ok, I think everyone has to calm down here a bit. There are some facts you should recognize before critizing this:
1. Entry is free! 2. You play with chips, not money, no money is involved. That means you play for free! 3. If you win, you win stuff, good stuff, free stuff! You don't win money! 4. Since I can't say this enough, you don't have to pay anything to play at all! 5. You don't have to pay any shipping, handling, customs fees or any form of taxes related to the prize, it is all covered by 4kings.
The only difference between this and playing poker in school for matches is that you actually get something if you win. However, you don't lose anything.
This is a TEEN rated forum, but we did announce the Fan Fest on it, and that is also something which is restricted to 18 y olds and above.
As for morals of playing poker, you are free to start your own thread on it in the Out Of Pod Experience forum, but it is off topic for this thread.
EDIT: Some errors have been fixed on their site, which means we deleted the post concerning those errors. Feel free to post if you experience any problems in the future though.
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Interesting way for a real-money poker site to get new players by giving out timecards for Eve depending on how much you deposit. I suppose Eve might get a few new players from 4Kings existing customers if they get given timecards as well. Interesting.
advertised with the blessing of the Marketing Department. I have been assured
that this tournament is legit.
kieron
Community Manager,
EVE Online
and
the representative from 4Kings.com, as well as ACTIVEalli from the Marketing
team. This is a legitimate tournament with some great prizes being offered to
members of the EVE community who wish to participate and are of legal age.
4Kings are a part of the B2B poker
network. (24hpoker AB sweden) 24hpoker network. 4Kings are hosted at B2B
poker. 4Kings.com and CCP Games are not affiliated with each other, other than
through this tournament.
4Kings
is providing all the logistics and prizes. Let's try to be nice to them from
here on out.
kieron
Community Manager,
EVE Online
and
here a bit. There are some facts you should recognize before critizing this:
1. Entry is free!
2. You play with chips, not
money, no money is involved. That means you play for free!
3. If you win, you win
stuff, good stuff, free stuff! You don't win
money!
4. Since I can't say this enough, you don't have
to pay anything to play at all!
5. You don't have to pay
any shipping, handling, customs fees or any form of taxes related to the prize,
it is all covered by 4kings.
The
only difference between this and playing poker in school for matches is that you
actually get something if you win. However, you don't lose anything.
This is a TEEN rated forum, but we
did announce the Fan Fest on it, and that is also something which is restricted
to 18 y olds and above.
As for
morals of playing poker, you are free to start your own thread on it in the Out
Of Pod Experience forum, but it is off topic for this thread.
EDIT: Some errors have been fixed on
their site, which means we deleted the post concerning those errors. Feel free
to post if you experience any problems in the future though.
Wrangler
Assistant Community Manager
EVE Online
to participate on that waz free
BestSigEver :P
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There are two types of people in this world - people that suck... and me.
Read the thread at the EVE forums:
...
PRIZES
1st : Dell XPS 600 Renegade PC
2nd : Framed Autographed EVE Poster (double extra large format)
1st - 18th : EVE Clothing
1st - 27th : EVE Posters
1st - 27th : EVE Time Cards
...
Other than the Dell (but it is a gaming PC), the entire tournament is based on EVE.