Draftmix News

Week 13’s freerolls pretty much went the same way as week 12’s, with Crazy4040 crushing everyone. Week 14 had a little more variation, with only one player, h4lif, winning more than one prize. He took first in both the Monday and Wednesday night freerolls, for a total of $50 in prizes.

Also of note, akcoyote won our Wednesday Night Freeroll which had 17 players, our largest to date. TBD came in a close second, losing by just over 2 points.

In the guaranteed cash tournaments, yourmom and lucky57 both won two for a total of $85. Runnerxc and FanProphet also took in two prizes as well.

FanProphet was the undisputed Leaderboard champ this week as well. In addition to some good cashes in the scheduled stuff, he did well in a number of sit and goes.

Starting this week we’re running an exciting promotion based around our Leaderboard. The top four players who earn the most Leader Points for the week will be invited to a special tournament with a $100 prize pool the following Thursday. So be sure to check the Leaderboard on Tuesday to see if you made it.

It’s been a great week for us here at Draftmix. Since opening the cashier we’ve been getting a lot of cash games started. Thank you all for coming and drafting.

We wanted to make it even better though, so last night we added a few new features that we’d like to tell you about.

1. Deposit Bonuses

For a limited time, if you add money to your Draftmix account, we’ll give you some extra cash to play with. Use the bonus code FREE25 with your next deposit and we’ll give you 100% extra, up to $25.* So put in $25 and you’ll get $50 to play with.

2. Multi-Table Drafts

First our freerolls were filling to capacity in minutes, and then even our cash games were maxing out. Too many of you told us that you were showing up 10 minutes after registration ended only to find that there were no seats left. Not any longer. Now our leagues can support much larger numbers of players. So show up before 9 p.m. Eastern and you’re guaranteed to have a seat waiting for you.

Whenever more than 12 people sign up the field will be separated into multiple tables (12 per table max). All entrants will be joined together after the draft ends and the highest score will win, as usual.

3. Leader Board

We love it when you guys talk trash. In fact, we enjoyed it so much, we thought we’d see if we couldn’t facilitate it a little better.

That’s why we’ve instituted the Leader Board. We’re employing a sophisticated formula (complete with square roots, logarithms, and other things we haven’t used since high school) to tell you who is performing the best on our site.

In the near future we’ll be rolling out some exciting promotions for our leaders too, so be sure to stay tuned to this newsletter for details.

Special Tournaments

Since it’s a special day, we’re going to cap it off by giving away some big prizes. Our first multi-table freeroll will, of course, be free to enter and have a $50 prize pool. That starts at 9 p.m. Eastern. And for our first multi-table cash buy-in league, which will start an hour later, we’re going to have a $5 buy-in and guarantee a $100 prize pool. So we’ll be giving away $150 in those two leagues alone.

And, if that’s not enough winning for you, sit and go cash tournaments are open around the clock. So come join us and win your share of the loot today on Draftmix.com.

*Subject to bonus terms and conditions. See My Account page for details.

We have been hard at work on Draftmix, and have recently released quite a few new features and fixed a few bugs.

We are now live with real money. Currently you can buy in on your account page using Visa MasterCard, American Express, and Discover, or by PayPal if you prefer an alternative funding method. Withdrawals can be made by either check or PayPal. Your account page will also show a list of recent transactions so you can keep tabs on what is going on.

The Profile page has been improved. We’ve added some more organization to teams, comments and prizes, as well as prettied it all up a bit. We also added paging support to comments and teams so you don’t have to look at too much data at once.

Also, you can now create a Draftmix affiliate account. Just click the affiliate link at the bottom of our page and follow the instructions. Once you create an affiliate account you can use our custom banners and text ads to refer people using your invite code, and you’ll earn a percentage of the profits.

Error and message reporting has been redone. There should now be more relevant messages, and feedback in some places where there wasn’t any before.

You can now hide play money games in the lobby, and they’ll stay hidden until you decide you want to see them again. And our FAQ has been updated to reflect the many questions you have sent to us.

We also have fixed quite a few small usability and scoring bugs thanks to feedback from our users. Thanks for taking the time to point those things out to us.

More exciting things are on the way, and as always we are interested in your input. Coming soon are multi-table tournaments and a leader-board. If you have an idea don’t hesitate to contact us. You can also vote on which feature you would like to see next in our poll.

Since we first starting taking customers in early August we’ve been getting tons of great user feedback. It’s helped shape the site, and will for years to come.

We spend pretty much all day every day working to make the site better, and now we’re asking for your help. We’d like to know what features you think are the most important and would like to see next. So please take a couple seconds to fill out the following survey, so we can continue to improve.

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