PokerStars confirms new rewards program: Chests
Do you think it's good for the future of poker and growth in number of recreational players that stars is adopting a very, very popular system that many big e-sports games have started to use which is a randomized chest where you pay a set $$$ like $3 to randomly get something worth 0.02 to $500+ similar to a slot machine with very poor return on investment - but in our case we are paying with our rakeback essentially to potentially get money back , or tickets, or bonuses etc ?
Or do you think it is yet another very poor direction that amaya is taking with pokerstars?
Rolling out Stars Rewards
by Severin Rasset on May 17, 2017 7:00 AM
I'm happy to announce that this summer we will be launching Stars Rewards, our new rewards program. Stars Rewards is an integrated rewards program that will offer an exciting, personalised gaming experience that rewards players for their play in poker, casino, and sports (where available) making every game count.
Stars Rewards gives you Chests that ...
https://www.pokerstars.com/en/blog/corpo...
I emailed asking if they can release the odds for the prizes to see how much of a cut we are getting but was told they do not have that info at this time to release.
(Making this thread since we finally have a confirmation on what the VIP rewards system is going to turn into, was posted in the other 2016 made VIP thread but was buried 1200 posts in, in a discussion on if stars is going to start stealing deposits - thought it was good for everyone to know what to look forward to (or plan to ditch stars) by summer.)
as rightfully mentioned above,micro/mid stake regs will get ~3x low rb(from 65% to 20-25%).I play 1$ flashes,so to get "Pokerstars Select" with 40% rb level i need to play 50k tourneys per month for whole year=unreal.Even 4x less distance is extremely hard(10 hours of pure game per day on 5 tables with no weekends)
No point trying to grind yourself to the select but I believe you already know this. You will get destroyed by rake and variance. Small stakes flash grinders are so focked atm. Majority of them if not all had the 40% challenges and were probably the only pool clearing them.
Yeah but with everything combined for like a spins player gg is way better option atm. Maybe even for cash player if you can hit the lbs.
oh i see what you mean now.
but i still believe that 28 days starts to count when 1st chest progress starts.
Players on Black Chest will now be migrated to Black level.
You need to earn 5 Diamond chests to upgrade to Black so this is $6,000 in rake but the period earning the first chest is not considered when the number of days are counted. This is because it is technically counting progress bars completed in 28 days. So it can be true to say you need to earn 5 chests within 28 days to upgrade whilst it not being true that you need to rake $6k in 28 days.
Here's an example to try to explain, in which a player has earned 5 x diamond chests so raked $6k and managed to upgrade but in this example they have taken 42 days to do so but would upgrade after earning the fifth chest on 4th March because at this point the statement "have 5 chests been earned in the last 28 days" is true, the player earned a chest on 5th Feb, 12th Feb, 15th Feb, 19th Feb and 4th March so 5 chests all within 28 days. The fact that the first of these chests started to be earned 42 days ago does not matter. So technically you need to earn 5 chests to upgrade but the rake amount required to be earned within 28 day period is equal to 4 x chests = $4.8k
I used to be a dedicated Stars user for about 10 years myself, and I even stuck around when they had their 1%RB because games were soft enough at the time that I didn't really care.
+The competition at the time was pretty sh.t, with only Partypoker trying, but their LB challenge had it's own issues (account sharing people grinding 24/7 all week) and their client was also a gigantic mess.
What ultimately drove me away was:
-The client being a buggy mess that freezes frequently/doesn't load in my c
What he said. I hate GG but Stars is worse.
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/misc....
Ironic being called a shill by that guy, zero self-awareness.
Yeah but with everything combined for like a spins player gg is way better option atm. Maybe even for cash player if you can hit the lbs.
Indeed, between promos like ggcare, the leader boards and the bad beat jackpots (or the gold mine promo for spins), one probably doesn't need as much rb from their fish buffet. GG care offers way more rb that way, and it's not even close.
What time do the festivities start tomorrow? Midnight?
14:10 UK time now. Nothing happens.
Not happy about PS's communication with players about the changes. We don't even know the new RB levels and how many points are needed to get there.
Wait so we aren't currently earning points towards the new rb system!?
14:10 UK time now. Nothing happens.
Not happy about PS's communication with players about the changes. We don't even know the new RB levels and how many points are needed to get there.
Yeh bit weird they haven't released publicly but here are the details for you
Blue > 2000 points > $3
Bronze > 6000 points > $10.50
Silver > 20,000 points > $40
Gold > 50,000 points > $125
Diamond > 120,000 > $360
Black > 250,000 > $1,000
5 chests needed per level to move up
Unreal!
Can someone please Eli5 as to why this new system is bad? I'm a rakeback noob
How can they advertise 40% rb and then give less than 40%?
Can someone please Eli5 as to why this new system is bad? I'm a rakeback noob
How can they advertise 40% rb and then give less than 40%?
They don't advertise 40% rb fwiw. It's up to 40% and more for 50 / 100k year rakers. It's worse for lower stakes players and esp for small stakes flash players that are getting roughly a 40% cut in rb.
COME ON!
It's not happening today is it?
The $300 I paid in rake today, will that be included towards these new targets?
What level are you ?
Someone else on diamond mentioned same issue in Discord earlier and Stars said they would make it right - Once it finally goes live if nothing seems to have happened I would DM one of them on there if I were you.
Unless @AshleyC can help from here ?
Thank you.
If anyone could DM me the stars discord link that'd be swell.
That's weird it told me to upgrade to the .com client from .eu thought it was the new rewards system but nothing. Oh my days lost all my notes ffs.
