PSSteve -

You have only implied that the DOJ is the one restricting options. Come out and say it (or don't) IMO.

Thanks and y'all are awesome BTW.

Meh, stars would be eating a significant loss if they did this as there's no way they'd have accounted for ALL FPPs to be suddenly redeembed at max value, and they're already resigned to losing all the US players.

I'm not saying there aren't better ways of sorting it out than the one that's been selected, and I'm sure there are lots of loyal players who've lost out here through sheer circumstance. My point was just that someone somewhere is always going to be pissed off and at least this has been resolved extremely quickly. Spare a thought for the FTP and UB regs (admittedly UB players ought to have been aware of some level of risk but hey).

The DoJ not only would not have ever deemed fpps worthless, they COULD not. Some of you are clueless as to how this or everyday life works.

Steve, confirm?

Seems like he would've mentioned that if we could. Pretty big omission. If so, I'm assuming bonus purchases can be reversed.

What makes you think I'm not a FT reg? There are tons of us that are regs on both sites. I'm much, much happier with PS and their response to the situation, but in no way does that mean that any of us should be satisfied with a little screwjob here and there.

Maybe if you are carrying 1 million+ fpps it would make sense to at least maintain supernova status. The idea of higher conversion rates to supernova+ players is to reward loyalty to the site. If you are a bronze star, why should you ever, let alone now, deserve a conversion rate that is equivalent to someone that is supernova?

i like you and all... but it is kind of a big deal to a lot of people who really need this money (me for one)... i am losing 23% of my FPP value because of this at a time when every dollar i can get is important

received a response from stars asking if there was any better way to cash in on my FPPs to get closer to true value or get some sort of boost of my FPPs

Standard that half the people seem to find enjoyment, acceptance, and even appreciation in the "bend me over and screw me" tactics of companies, no matter how minor the effect may be on any one individual.

They already did this. Any unused Step or Tourney tickets you had were converted to cash and will be sent to you when you request a cash out. I had a Step 2 & Step 4, they gave me full value and automatically added that to my withdrawl amount. (But you can't use FPP's to now buy entries).

Also, great job PS! I miss you....

Sweet

I love PS and all but this is just for a way for PS to save money by screwing over players

COULD things be a lot worse? Sure. But that in no way means they SHOULDN'T be better. I expect exactly what I have earned. Nothing more. Nothing less. Everyone should.

Exactly. We chose Pokerstars because they were #1, there is no reason we shouldn't expect first class treatment. Just like I had a lot less money on FT, and I expected them to take much longer. Or how I'm not surprised about UB/AP at all.

The "could be worse" argument is stupid.. We made a choice to avoid the worse.

Man I really can't believe we are getting partial milestones. Every time I saw someone ask about this they usually got flamed, I didn't think Stars would do it.

This company is so SO much better than any other poker site out there. It's just not even close.

WorldWideBet: I'm not sure what you're pissed about, I only looked through your last 3 posts and didn't feel like going any further, but I'm not sure what stars really realistically could have done more here. They definitely didn't have to give the milestones and a company HAS to look out for itself as well, otherwise they would all go bankrupt and there would be no companies. The fact that stars went this far for many players that will probably never be able to play on their site again is pretty impressive to me.

Come on, let's not start acting as if giving full value for FPPs already earned would have sent Stars into bankruptcy. It's clear that Stars made a business decision that balanced loss mitigation against players getting what they were owed, which is obviously not what players are supposed to view as ideal.

Having said that, I can only pray that FTP will be so fair.

Wow talk about making Full Tilt look even worse. Kudos to stars for the way they've handled this whole thing.

Should PokerStars reenter the US market, I think I am giving them 100% of my business.

Pokerstars is easyily GOAT in terms of service and loyalty, imo

LOL at people complaining

What were you playing to get 60k VPP per hour?

Full tilt is again owned and destroyed by the stars. Best poker site in the world no doubt

Partial milestones was a surprise to me, great job stars, and lol at the haters.

If you were a bronze star, how is stars supposed to assume in the future you would have started playing more and been a higher level vip?

edit: ~226,250 FPP's.

SOOO many people in this forum just make stuff up, luckily the SMARTER poster's call them out on their ****!

They should have charged a fee for some of the withdrawals and not had a minimum cashout. They are screwing microstakes players. I wouldn't have awarded partial stellar and milestones, which is an example of Pokerstars going above and beyond.

This is a really sad day

My pokerstars account has never been this empty, no money, 99% of my fpps gone......

I JUST WANT TO PLAY A CARD GAME

i hate this country