Pretty much done this. Trying out the Party grind.

I am banned at Party and honestly have no clue why. I sent an e-mail and asked and they do not release that information. Had not used my account in 5 years

I'd inquire, maybe go to their discord and ask. They are responsive on there and actually found their overall customer service to be pretty good.

My gold chest is at 48500 points

This is not ridiculous. Online poker is a dying business(whether you want to accept it or not) and they chose to focus more on casino games and on online betting. If this strategy fails and their profit margin drops, they might change it. If not, I guess it's a success from their point of view. After all profit it's all that matters for a company..

And after all you, as a poker player, are free to stop playing on Stars, no one is forcing you to keep playing if you don't like it.

Believe me, I wish the SN and SNE program was still available. Back then you could have make 1.6k/month as a break even 50NL or 100NL player. Those were the golden times for the mediocre players (like me)..

Life is hard. Stop whining!

Isn't Stars at least a little concerned about GGPoker? When WSOP was I logged into both sites as GG had more players in the morning than Stars and I realized this was the first time I ever saw another Poker Site having more active players than Stars..

Their Rake is way better at Micro Zoom Cash games, but worse on higher stakes afaik. At Stars, Micro rake is ridic with a 20bb cap on nl5z.

Do you think competition will Stars make change course? When I started playing in 2012, Supernova, GoldStar etc. were huge goals for me that made me play.

They've had board meetings where the topic of improving things has come up. Guess we'll have to wait and see if they actually implement any changes but they are aware of the negatives surrounding the site at least.

Competition is always good. But again, I don't know how much Stars cares about poker anymore.
I wouldn't be to surprised if in 5 years PokerStars will become BettingStars

Just another thing on PP, coming from a guy who has been almost 100% exclusive stars for the past few years: I just got accepted into an affiliate deal, and they have this special promo that you can get as much as 75% total RB if you hit weekly rake targets. I'm not shilling, just telling you what's out there and on offer, and what I got.

That being said: Stars is still an excellent choice if you get an exclusive bonus + chests. But if you just get chests, then it's hard to justify giving 100% of your grind to Stars.

Do you need to have no account on party to get that kind of deal?

I had an old account from way back that was inactive, but I recently played a few WPT events with it.

From what I heard, you have a good chance of getting into these RB deals if you have an inactive account.

If you want to know more, or never signed up on PP, PM me as I asked your question to the people that helped me on your behalf. I don't profit from this in any way, and tbh this thread should be refoused on the lovely stars chests.

after I stopped playing on stars they recently sent me two surveys, which I actually did answer. the last one‘s questions were mainly about GG and the reason why I play there after stating that I play at GG - amongst Party and unibet about which they didn’t ask me at all.

I did and got a e-mail promptly that they would not discuss the reasons and all decisions are final

Is there anyway to get the coins or whatever from the chests without having to do the little animation thing?

So often it just fails to load and even when it does load the chest taking ages to finally open and it's just a pain

open them when you first the client. dont play any poker

For me it only works when I go through My Stars>Chests.

Also, it works fine through mobile.

First 2 weeks of this promo, mine was 3000 points = $1.50 and 9000 = $7.50.

Didn't do either obviously but this morning the new prizes are $4.50 and $22.50 with same points requirements - pleasantly surprising all things considered.

I cleared my 5000 points for $400 and had a brutal run break even month with the bonus.

I have gone 17 straight All ins with K-K all in against A-A and lost everyone one. Just ran bad

May try next month again. It seems like 50 NL Full Ring has the toughest competitors Or I suck

Had the same bonus/points and cleared it x1. It helped buffer my missed WCOOP shot taking. FML

Not really becase you should win 18/100. So you can go 65 more straight allins and lose.

^^
Well, like you posted- he should win 18% of the time. 18% x 17 tries = 3.09 So he should have won on average 3 times. Since he won 0 times, he is therefore running bad, lol.

He is just whining not running bad.

Exactly. Fold KK pre the next 65 times and then win 18 times in a row.

Maybe Both

The funny thing is anytime there is a 5 bet you go great Aces call and yup its Aces. I know you cant fold kings.

Not really because you should win 180/1000. So he could go 803 more straight allins & lose