***Official Stars Regs Thread***

[bigbluffben]

zomg your response is so much better than mine

[GootRuck]

Originally Posted by DougL

You purchase them for a quarter million points (FPP). Then, you have to clear them; there is a time limit on clearing. Since you need 10k/month to keep your SN status, it is just delayed gratification. While you're "earning" the VPPs to clear, you're building up more FPPs to buy your next bonus. The cost is the 250,000.

The VPP are the base points; they are calculated on rake paid by the tables you sit on. Your bonus levels are calcuated based on VPP earned/time period. To clear all the bonuses that require it, they give you a time period to earn a certain #.

You get a multiplier on VPP for FPP; the FPP are the things you spend.

And so does it pretty much make sense to always spend your VPP's on the 4k bonuses whenever you can? Is there any benefits to keeping/hoarding them? Or do you just go all out and buy each 4k bonus bonus at the 250k level?

[Unguarded]

E-checks stops working and the games suddenly get worse... that was my experience. I hope this doesn't last long.

[DonkeyOnTilt]

Originally Posted by Unguarded

E-checks stops working and the games suddenly get worse... that was my experience. I hope this doesn't last long.

I dunno... at this time last year the 3/6 games seemed much worse to me. They are pretty much a printing money level at the moment. Now if I could just figure out 5/T..........

[YanMTL]

Originally Posted by DonkeyOnTilt

I dunno... at this time last year the 3/6 games seemed much worse to me. They are pretty much a printing money level at the moment. Now if I could just figure out 5/T..........

Agree 100% even with a ton of badbeats and some stuburn call down from me, i'm still making money.

The amount of coldcalls pf and guys, paying every street with Ace-rag is so high that you need a lot of bad luck to lose money.

Problem is the amount of reg on every table... DonkeyOntilt, Setypooh on the same table than me...didn't last long, i change

[La Peste]

Originally Posted by Unguarded

E-checks stops working and the games suddenly get worse... that was my experience. I hope this doesn't last long.

What E-checks is not working? Does this mean that my withdrawal is going to be held up?

[sledghammer]

2_basic 1, DrivingDog 0

[Unguarded]

Originally Posted by La Peste

What E-checks is not working? Does this mean that my withdrawal is going to be held up?

There's a thread about it in the internet poker forum... if you already made your echeck cashout, you should be fine I think. I'm mainly annoyed because bad players need to be able to deposit money this weekend, hehe.

[La Peste]

Originally Posted by Unguarded

There's a thread about it in the internet poker forum... if you already made your echeck cashout, you should be fine I think. I'm mainly annoyed because bad players need to be able to deposit money this weekend, hehe.

I'm counting on it to pay my rent, fingers crossed.

[Scorcho]

good luck getting the $ out -- hopefully you can do so without difficulty

but please never rely on the e-check system to be fully operational -- it comes and goes as the cat and mouse game with the US gov't continues onward

[mknoll1]

Originally Posted by GootRuck

And so does it pretty much make sense to always spend your VPP's on the 4k bonuses whenever you can? Is there any benefits to keeping/hoarding them? Or do you just go all out and buy each 4k bonus bonus at the 250k level?

Spending the points only on 4k bonuses is hoarding them. You can buy bonuses at much lower prices (as low as $50 I think) but those bonuses cost more points/dollar. Saving up for the 4k bonus is the most cost effective strategy right now.

As for the delayed gratification concept I think that this is intentional by stars since you are compelled to keep playing in order to get full value from your bonuses and points. If I have 250 k points now and spend it on a 4k bonus and decide to quit once I cash it I have 100k points when I am done cashing it so I might as well play the $1500 bonus out. When I am done with that I have +- 35k points which I think is still worth a few hundred dollars. Eventually it ends but not until I have played a TON more poker.

[Unguarded]

The smaller $1500 bonus can be pretty efficient if it means moving up to a stake that you know you can beat... it should be pretty easy to make up the difference with the increased hourly rate.

[GootRuck]

Thanks for the responses everyone, I might be going for SNE next year so I am just trying to get a grasp for how this all works, thanks again.

[Scorcho]

there's nothing that beats the pop-up message about clearing your bonus and that $4k was added to your account, though

[GootRuck]

Originally Posted by Scorcho

there's nothing that beats the pop-up message about clearing your bonus and that $4k was added to your account, though

See! Now you're gettin' me all excited :P