If I am gold, and playing 5.50s (yes, going insane getting gold at 5.50s), how many FPPs do I earn per tourney ???

.50x5 = 2.5 which rounds to 3 FPPs ... If I am gold, does the 2x multiplier get applied to the 2.5 to get 5, or to the 3 to get 6 ??? Just trying to estimate $EV ...

not to be rude but cant you just check you fpp status after playing one tourney?

in before MicroBob!

Hope this helps!

I wouldn't be needing to know if I was already gold ... Like I said, I'm trying to estimate $EV of the 5.50s if I were to grind to gold ... 1 FPP probably not an issue per tourney, but it is 20% more FPPs, so I would like to know, and there's no definitive answer on stars site ...

IMO

Helpful site, huh Ronbo?

I'm pretty sure the 5.50s give 3 VPPs so that would be 6 FPPs.

Thanks, that's what I thought, but it explains it one way in one place and a different way in another ...

I can confirm now that it is 6 FPPs.

PS You owe me $5.50

Sorry for the delay everyone.

I'm not positive but I think you might get 2 VPP's on your next SNG [meaning they alternate between 3 and 2]. As I said though, I'm not sure but you should probably check on that before getting too excited on your awesome 20% VPP bump,

[x] too balla to care about 2-3 vpp

I do know it's always 3 VPPs ... 20% at gold is like a free stress star per month though, MB, how can you NOT get excited about that LOL ...

ronbo - I have been excited about that before and am just now remembering.
I was getting that confused with 3.5x FPP's for Supernova because you get 3 FPP's on one hand and then 4 FPP's on the next and back and forth.

But you are correct that it is 3 VPP's for EVERY 5+0.50 and that this is a bit of a good deal for you.
After thinking about it some more I remembered that one of my FIRST freaking posts on here was when we had some Stars reload bonus for $120 that took 5x Base-FPP's to clear at that time and I calculated that IF you were a low-stakes SNG player and wanted to clear it in the 5.50's it was a bit of a better deal for you because of the 20% thing. And this was at a time when playing the 5.50's felt like high-stakes stuff to me and I thought I was a maniac because I could play 2 of them at once.

So rondo...it would appear you are taking after me in making this observation. Because this was one of the first Stars-FPP calculation things I ever did. It was just so long ago that I had forgotten it.
Good luck on your next 38k posts.

LOL, sadly I see some truth in your post ... I'm sadly a numbers guy (much better at numbers than feel in poker, so I should probably play limit instead of NL - but I suck at cash and am decent at tournies and you just can't find limit tournies), and on stars will play 4 5.50s instead of 2 11s to get the extra vpps and slightly softer game ... I don't massive multi-table like alot on here, but trying to figure out $EV if I decide to 12-table ... I always like to know exactly what additions to my base ROI that playing at a certain site if going to yield ... I doubt, however, that I will have 38,000 more posts as you do LOL ... I always love reading your posts, even the one's in romanwarrior's debt thread LOL ... I appreciate your time responding to this thread ...

You get partial FPPs for tournaments, imo.

LOL, thanks, SpaceMonkey !!! I forgot to respond earlier when I read your post as I was on the interstate on my phone reading the forum (I have a commute LOL) ...