PokerStars has once again changed its rewards program but this one actually promises of bringing back tiers called 'Select' closely resembling Supernova and Supernova Elite programs, with up to 60% rakeback offer that “doesn’t penalize winners​.”

* Dedicated manager for each Select account
* 50% rakeback for Select
* 60% rakeback for Select Plus (only at Spins & Zoom; 50% at other games)
* Yearly offer
* Other tiers range from 15 % to 40% rakeback
* Weekly rakeback challenges get scrapped
* Scheduled to go live on Jan 22, 2024

https://pokerfuse.com/news/poker-roo...pernova-elite/

Took them long enough.

We think 500z will run daily now?

Edit - how is it paid out? Just cash in your account or you get it in a chest, or what?

Chests but they give you cash and not tournament tickets etc or star coins

Unfortunately the changes to the VIP system will not affect all countries, I live in Italy and it is excluded. we will continue to take a pittance in rakeback

They say its better late than never.... lets hope this holds true

They still have 4 normal tables limit ?

That’s the most pathetic thing stars introduced and the reason I stop playing there.

Pretty much screwed majority of the players trying to make NL500+ to run again. Meaning with cash below NL50 and spins below 25 and the whole flash format.

Yep and not changing.

It's one giant cash grab on micro and low stakes cash grinders. you now get less RB than before even if you were capped at the 10% weekly challenge. Even silver tier with the 17.5% chest and 10% challenge was more RB, 27.5% vs 20%. One huge joke I was actually optimistic they would improve things - of course its better for mid and high stakes players but that traffic is miniscule compared to micros and low stakes. They're essentially bleeding low and micro stakes dry to fund the improved RB for mid and high stakes players. Cherry on top is the special top 2 tiers to mask over what they're doing.

I guess this is to try and compete with GG giving everyone 50% RB for the next 100 days

GG rb is bs

Other way round I think

anyone knows if its available in Austria?

Just increase the cap to 6 or something.

4 is pathetically low.

oh that's cool...haven't played on stars since 2011. Have fun kids

Hahaha what a joke. This is only good for a few people. Stars sucks.

Can someone explain to me how this is good for recreationals that don't grind volume:

"Under the updated system, the rakeback percentage for the Blue tier remains the same, but players will now need six times more RPs to clear the chest, resulting in a bigger chest value of $3.

Moving to the Bronze tier, there’s an enhancement in rakeback from 16% to 17.5%. However, players will now need 6000 RPs to unlock a Chest valued at $10.50, compared to the previous $1.50."

It makes no sense, are they smoking crack?

What a joke, indeed.

The whole point of the weekly challenges was 'tailored rewards' for each player and now they're showing they managed to tailor them so badly that 93% of players couldn't complete them or were inegible, lol.

I'm sure tons of players were like me, stuck with a challenge way higher than I could ever finish with no way of ever changing it because of their shite support.

And now they're punishing those that actually did have a chest they could complete and get half decent rakeback because of their own ineptitude.

its ok everyone. they have internal data that shows this new system is the best and most optimal for all players.

yeah yeah yeah they had this internal data when they created the challenge system 2 years ago but just trust me bro, they got it down real good this time



it doesnt matter this comment got ratioed 35:1

I was told in pm by someone high up in stars that it literally doesnt matter how many upvotes negative comments make bc its only selection bias and their internal data is more trustworthy.

sure but its obvious 50% rb even with pvi system is better for hundreds of regs on stars that will be moved down 2 chest levels from 60% rb to 17.5%-25%

gg is the clear winner now unless you plan to make select+ for 60% rb w/$100k year rake

on gg you also get lb rb and few other things

Lmfao , i thought it was gonna be a flat % RB type of thing kinda like what they do on WPN but it's still the same chest progress bar fill bullshit

Yeah but without Select and Select+, and your 1$ rake it`s 700 points instead of 1000.
Things I know from their discord.

I have more than 20 power path “spin n ****” tickets that i will never use because I hate spin n shits so much… worst poker variant by miles.

And they think i should be thankful to them for letting me play that hahahaha.

Its better for them to rake the **** outta us so HS regulars can play their very low rake games and increase their fortune even more.

Thats the part that makes me angry, those ****ers already pay 0.7bb/100 or something like that. Why they need 50% rakeback? Are they not beating their games? Thats not my problem.

By the end of the day there is no way stars will see an increase in traffic on micro/low. This will fail and zoom pools will continue to dwindle.

Oh, so my country is excited. Rest in pieces.

How does the rake itself compare? Wasn't GG always higher at low+micro stakes?

I think gg is better for the micros because the rake% and cap is the same no matter what stakes. I could be totally off though also but that's something I remember someone mentioning.