What do points make?

Party's points incentive scheme is quite clever; there's nothing like dangling free shiny things in front of people to encourage them to use your product. I spent quite a quite while examining the scheme and working out how long it would take me to earn a PSP for my brother.

At the levels and amount of hands I play there it would take months and months and months, so I started doing sums to see how quickly I could get there if I switched from the site where I get rakeback until I had earned the requisite points. And then it dawned on me that if I did the exact opposite, I could just buy my brother a PSP with the extra rakeback. So that's what I'll do, and from the Party player's club I'll just have to settle for the occasional rain jacket - if I can bear to wear the logo.

Regarding PSPs - they are absolutely great. I'm addicted to 'Winning Eleven 9' ('Pro Evo' to my fellow Englishmen) on mine at the moment, and looking forward to picking up 'Football Manager' when I go back home in a couple of weeks. If - like me - you love video games, but go in fits and starts and don't fancy a console and all the wires hooked up around your TV, the PSP is absolute perfection.