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This week's Club Pogo challenges!
Mahjong Sanctuary : Match 70 flower tiles this week!
Thousand Island Solitaire HD : Finish 55 piles this week!
Pogo Slots : Activate any bonus round 15 times in the Grant's Garden Slot Machine this week!

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Posted by Hooper2092
 - April 21, 2004, 05:12:51 AM
I saw the recent winner of Fortune Bingo win her jp of 520$- she was in the same room as myself. What sucks about it was, after checking out her profile- she had been a member of pogo only a week, and club pogo 2 days! Talk about beginners luck! I have talked to her several times since then and she says that she believes everything is legitamate because she had to fill out a few different forms to claim it.
Posted by Element
 - April 20, 2004, 03:10:32 PM
ive only seen someone win (in another room) twice and that was because they gave out two JP's within maybe 30 mins.
Posted by Homer
 - April 20, 2004, 03:04:37 PM
They announce the winner in all the chat rooms for that game. ;)
Posted by DEBKARLAR
 - April 20, 2004, 02:48:06 PM
I was once in a room when they annouce USER A won the $$$ jackpot. well they wasn't in my room but I'd assume the message was shown in all the same game chatrooms. To bad I didn't put them in freinds list to follow up and ask them Questions
Posted by Element
 - April 19, 2004, 07:06:52 PM
a million millionares...if pogo had that many muillionares i would think there would be more people online at a time than only 250k (at the peak)

i think pogo rigs their JP's because of how easy it would be...to come up with a name in 5 seconds to give a $5,000 JP to... seems simple enough to me, $5,000 = 5 secs an easy way to cut their costs. I see your point to where a company with so much money tryin to cut their costs with something so little as a JP spin..but you never know what people would go to what measures  :-\
Posted by bob@pogopal
 - April 19, 2004, 06:36:17 PM
Multiplication and Division. A million people cashing in a million tokens is a trillion tokens, and a million tokens is only a millionth of that.

No matter how many tokens get cashed in, the probability of winning is not going to be any better than the number of prizes divided by the number of people cashing in for a chance to win. I once worked for a man who originally came from Italy, and he wryly observed at the time that everyone in Italy was a millionaire. The lira traded at something like 10,000 to the dollar.

I have heard of corporate stupidity, but cheating on the prize payouts would be astronomical stupidity in this case. My guess is the prizes cost EA a fraction of what supporting the game servers costs them.
Posted by Element
 - April 19, 2004, 05:17:21 PM
Quote from: bob@pogopal on April 19, 2004, 12:53:09 PM
It would be foolish for a $2.5 billion company to get cheap on the jackpots they offer to get people to use their site. The company makes six million dollars a day and pays out a hundred thousand a month. That's chump change for them.

A penny saved is a penny gained  ;) Yes it would be foolish for them to cheap out on the JP's but i wouldnt doubt it for a minute...Besides how do you explain people cashing in millions of tokies and getting nothing...And as DJ said, why would they continue to talk about this Carl guy if other people continually win just as much as he did... I dont kare how much their worth i still and always will think they rig the JP's  :-\
Posted by bob@pogopal
 - April 19, 2004, 12:53:09 PM
EA.com, including pogo, is about 1% of EA

The best way to verify this is to look at last year's financial statements. They are a matter of public record.

It would be foolish for a $2.5 billion company to get cheap on the jackpots they offer to get people to use their site. The company makes six million dollars a day and pays out a hundred thousand a month. That's chump change for them.

They do not make their money on Pogo. They make their money on the video games people buy. That's explained in their annual report too.
Posted by marky03
 - April 19, 2004, 10:11:04 AM
they do give out the jp's....i put that person on my friends list and was talking to them about it
Posted by Bizach0620
 - April 18, 2004, 06:30:14 PM
That is why i like cash break the spinner there does not go below 20,000 and pop up don't go below 250.
Posted by techguy722
 - April 18, 2004, 03:20:04 PM
In backgammon if you play against yourself and let the timer run out to win, when you get the bonus spin it always gives you zero tokens, atleast this is the way it has been for me. Also easiest way to win challenges with this game and some others!
Posted by Element
 - April 18, 2004, 02:55:22 PM
dang....that sucks..intil now i havent ever heard of anyone getting 0  ???
Posted by yousmellbad
 - April 18, 2004, 02:16:01 PM
Quote from: Transponder7 on April 18, 2004, 10:18:41 AM
HA! i have that beat Homer i have got 0 a few times on the spin in   Its outta here2  lmao imagine that.

I have gotten 0 token in a spin in dominos quite a few times.  :'(
Posted by Element
 - April 18, 2004, 11:34:13 AM
The best way to find out is to go to pogo and when you see they have like 250 thousand people logged in count up all the members playing the games and times that by whatever it is people pay for club lol  :P
Posted by DEBKARLAR
 - April 18, 2004, 11:26:22 AM
Quote from: Homer on April 18, 2004, 10:40:45 AM
I don't think they care how long you play. I think all they care about is if you paid $$$ ;)
I wonder how much $$ pogo pulls in each month