will give this a try. Thanks

So unfair.... Just back at stars after many years, progressed through past silver in no time. My 1st gold chest needed 48,500 points to unlock!! WTF? haha. Anyways, got the points and my next gold chest is 13,000! Eh? Spoke to support and they were like 'lucky you, your target dropped!' haha. So each chest is different points even if same colour? Eh?
Do all sites have zoom type tables these days? I feel a bit dirty and used, generating $485 rake for PS and getting a big fat deep sea diver in return. A little over 1.0% lol.

Time to move on

20k points for Black, lucky me

but how much did you lose?

the will to live

Played in PartyPoker for 3 days, made more in cashback then 2 months in stars.

Man they increased the rake and removed supernova, they have a dominant market share. But it's with this kind of attitude that business fail (greed and bad customer retention).

IMO starts wont be a market leader in 3 to 4 years if they continue behaving this way.

They have been like this for what five years and they are still the number one. If they can get the aurora sheet working there is basically zero chance others moving past them. People seem to over estimate the rb because recs don't care about stuff like that.

What exactly do you mean by that? I've always thought it was just a graphics enhancement, is there more to it than that?

You crazy bro ? U can see GG network with their tournaments being with very similar guaranties and party poker with also tournaments with near guaranties + same kind of fishes atleast to the level of 55$ + sng ,spins promos etc boosting traffic a lot i totaly quit stars and playing exclusively made from rb and promotions more money for 2 months than for the entirely all time on stars .

And yet both of those sites have less traffic than stars without any rb. For five years now. Well gg had one day bigger traffic than stars if I remember correctly. I didn't even mention mtts spins I just said stars is still and most likely will be the biggest site without any rb. So you are most likely the crazy one.

Yeah I mean if they can make it less heavy to run. Atm it seems to lag like hell if you have any animations on.

^^Ah, ok great thank you, I thought I'd missed some other reason for them rolling it out. Can still disable at the moment in UK, I run a decent laptop with 350Mbs to the house fibre and it still makes things screwy.

Being bigger with 90% dominance isnt the same as being with 50-60% dominance ,even rec players see the payouts changes they are degens and dont play for fun but not all of them are stupid monkeys .Also some of the regular mid-hs rec will apreciate geting some %rb more than getting chest for sure .Ofc they will remain 1st site by traffic atleast a few yearst to come ,but if they keep increasing rake and other stupid changes believe me they are allready falling down hard ,guaranties are pretty shallow and for same tournament with 6 k in the pool on PS and 4.5 k on party i get same prizes on FT for beating less players + 50 or 100% less rake depend on the style .Sng s also have much lower rake + leaderboard etc ,i have seen graphs of regulars on stars playing 60 k games on stars and being only 10k up because of variance without rakeback fi they are doing this on party they get 10k a month .Also as i said recs see the changes to payout strucure and how shitty is it so bad payouts for FT and 30 % ITM + 12% rake on turbos what an joke .

Exactly the same case as me. Took pandemic times to get back to poker... got some crappy boxes worth 0,5 and 1 and now my gold bar is also 48,500 points which after USD500+ rake paid last month wasnt still able to clear.

tldr

anyone got this month reward challenge yet? I think it should be out today .. or out already..

25000 redemption pts for 2k

redemption points are different from stars points?

btw i get zero monthly awards

Chests are 1$ in rake for 100 pts (cashgames). Challenges are 1$ in rake for five points and I think that's the redemption one.

How much for tournies? I got 180 Stars coins for my latest 14,750 silver chest. Seems even worse than normal.

i'm already on square 27 of spade raiders. got a double which i guess is an instant chest? 8000 stars coin i think it was. then i landed on a spade i believe. pretty sure i am on blackchest, need that 15k one time.

Sry no idea don't play mtts.

Chests aren't even opening now - just an oscillating red star.

Have made >$100,000 in RB related equity (cashback, progress towards Diamond Elite, LBs, etc) on Party Poker so far this year. My 335k point chests normally getting me $40-$60 back on PS

Got one, around 30% rakeback. Better than what I had on Party plus I don't have to play against bots and account sharers.

They will open next time you launch the software or you can open them from the stars website.

Level 2, need 1850 points to get a chest (18,50$ in rake).

Chest : 70 gold token, 5000$ freeroll ticket + dices (give nothing).

Seriously?