I made a spreadsheet showing the conversion rates for the cash bonii and VPPs required to clear the bonii.

You can see it here.

From there, click File -> Download as -> select your spread sheet program (Open Office or Excel or whatever).

From there just delete the rows that don't apply to you and you can plan out your bonus whoring this way. For instance, if you are not Supernova already, then delete the row with the $1500 bonus. If you are Supernova, the $285 bonus is still a worse conversion than the regular price $4000 bonus so you probably want to skip it.

Ok it's 1/12/10 EST, is it 1/12 pokerstars time yet? I need my beanie and scarf! The vip store hasn't updated...

the black one with the red spade?

No, it's gray with a large darker spade on it.

think they are referring to this:



and yeah reviews? cos it looks pretty good

Did anyone already buy scarf & beanie even though the store doesn't list the discount yet?

Is that the same one they gave out to wsop players? If so it runs small imo.

yeah that looks like the one they gave out during wsop.

i like it a lot but it fits smaller than the rest of stars gear. probably good to order a size larger

So basically, for SN's, the $1500 is like an extra $240 free monies.

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yer, if you get the $1500, the $650 and the $50 its like $432 free.. if you were going to get $4k bonus' anyway (with i think most SN's would do)

So I haven't really read this thread yet but when will the bonuses be on sale (the 1500, the 650, and the 285)?

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its only $140 + $10 + $2 = $152. and not $432 !! (i.e, if u were gonna buy 250kFPP bonus anyway )

obv, if you were gonna buy 100k, 50k and 5k FPP bonuses it is a saving of $432 !

Yeah its interesting in how you actually calculate the value you capture. e.g the 1.5k bonus @ 85k FPPs (original cost 100k FPPs). Do you capture 15kFPPs*0.016 = $240 or do you capture [($1.5k/85kFPPs) - 0.016]*85k FPPs = $140?

If you need to pay custom fees, will PS pay it? If yes, how?

yea Gary & effuno, the right way for us to think about it as SN's would be pts to buy x .016 = our true value. giving us the actual "free monies". So the $1500 is $140 free monies.

Hi guys,

Here's a quick spreadsheet to outline the good ones. Please note the discount is based on the true value, not the FPP value that they overcharge. (I am using the 1 FPP = 0.016 rate)

Please note that the VIP Cash Reward requires you to grind VPPs (within 90 days) to earn the monies:

$50 VIP Cash Reward: in exchange for 3,000 FPPs (grind 350 VPPs)
$285 VIP Cash Reward: in exchange for 20,000 FPPs (grind 1,995 VPPs) obviously you should avoid this!
$650 VIP Cash Reward: in exchange for 40,000 FPPs (grind 4,550 VPPs)
$1500 VIP Cash Reward: in exchange for 85,000 FPPs (grind 10,500 VPPs)

It might be better than I get the $530 and $215 tickets instead of $800 cash for my Supernova Milestone because I can still get that backdated for later. Should be able to save the tickets for something like SCOOP.

I'm looking forward to getting the Spade Hoodie during the sale, could have bought it full price in FPPs so I pray it's not all gone in a few days time.

If you want me to calculate all the items then just let me know.

It is already worth it for many players. There are many opportunities for Supernovas to gain value during this promotion.

I'm going to ship this.

Steve,

If you need to pay custom fees, will PS pay it? If yes, how?

The answer may be depend on which item is selected and which country it is being shipped to. Please email vipclub@pokerstars.com with specifics in order to get an accurate answer. Thanks for your interest!

what happens if someone is clearing a bonus already and buys one of them?

Steve,

Can the $215 tournament ticket be used in any $215 tournament, or does it have to specifically be the Sunday Million?

I emailed VIP Club last night and got a reply but he didn't confirm it properly - although he said the tickets don't expire so I take it as a yes.