It’s been a while since we talked about Adjarabet. Remember Adjarabet? It was the little-known online poker room based in the country of Georgia that rose to prominence two years ago via creative promotions that catered to the recreational player. These promos had goals that were extremely easy to reach and as a result, Adjarabet drew loads of cash game players, catapulting it into the top ten of PokerScout’s cash game rankings. The poker room is down to number fifteen now, but that’s still not too bad. So let’s talk about another interesting promo it has going on, shall we?
The latest promo is called “Full Deck Poker” and seems like a fun take on the tried-and-true card collecting game. The goal, as it might sound, is to collect each one of the 52 cards in a standard deck. And, as is the modus operandi of Adjarabet, the cards are insanely easy to obtain. Each time a player is involved in a raked hand, his hole cards are added to his promo deck collection (or those cards that have yet to be collected).
Per Adjarabet’s definition, a raked hand for this promo is a real money hand in which the player stays in until at least the flop and the pot reaches at least .20 GEL (Georgia Lari, equal to about $0.41). There must be at least three players dealt cards in the hand and only Hold’em cash game tables count.
For example, if Player A is dealt 9♣-5♠ at a full table, is still in the hand at the flop (even if he folds later) and the pot hits, say, 1 GEL, that 9♣ and 5♠ will be added to Player A’s Full Deck Poker collection for that day. If the player already has one of the cards in his collection, he will not get a duplicate.
If a player continues to play enough so that they collect all 52 cards in the deck, that player then qualifies for the weekly Full Deck Freeroll, which is held every Monday at 20:00 server time. The qualifying period for the tournament is the seven days prior to that Monday. The prize pool for each freeroll is 15,000 GEL.
A player’s work is not necessarily complete, however, once a 52-card deck is completed. Sure, the player qualifies for the freeroll, but by completing another 52-card deck on a different day, players can increase their freeroll starting stacks. Everyone starts with at least 2,500 chips, but if a full deck is collected on a second day during the week, that stack grows to 5,000. More starting chips are added for each day all 52 cards are collected, with the maximum stack set at 50,000 chips for amassing a complete deck all seven days of the week.
And…that’s it. I don’t have anything more to say about this.
