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 ...
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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.)
This is probably a stupid question but i've only got 30,000 of the 50,000 points for the next chest which expires 22nd March. I won't play enough to get the reward so presumably I should downgrade chests or this chest will expire and i'll get nothing this month?
so.. no more rewards in any form for Belgian players. And the rake is going up too for my preferred sng format :s
How is the new reward program? Maybe I should go live somewhere else :(
So if you don't complete a chest by a certain time, the chest resets to 0 right? So say you completed 35000 of 50000 points and won't be able to earn 15000 points for $125 chest in say a short amount of time. Let's just say in about 2 days. You either let it expire or you could click on exchange where it would go to a lower chest level. Does anyone know what numbers you are looking at if you click on exchange? Does it actually show you what are the exchange option going to be before you decide to click exchange as oppose to not doing it?
Is it going to be something like earn 1000 points or 2000 points or 5000 points but now they give you much more than 2 days? But basically, the 35000 out of 50000 points that you earned is wasted? But the difference here is well at least you going to earn some type of chest that is much smaller amount as oppose to you playing and earning maybe 5000 points in the next 2 days at max and those points are wasted so well the 5000 points you earn in the next 2 days would be something you would unlock?
@PaulyJames200x In your example, if you exchange you will downgrade to Silver but get a $40 chest straight away and a new 28 day timer.
If you know you won't reach the point requirement then you should exchange otherwise you are right, all acquired points would be lost for no rb.
Okay so I go from gold to silver. So there is a $40 chest. How many total points is would that require? Gold required 50000 points and I got about 35000 points but can't earn 15000 points in 2 days.
20k for Silver
So you get $40 chest for hitting 20000 points for silver. So that is about how much percent rb? Gold is $125 chest for 50000 points and I recall that is 25% rb.
How exactly do you calculate the amount of points you earn for rake you pay? Example, you play a $22 tournament and pay $2 in rake. You earn how many points exactly? I thought not long ago, it was something like for every $1 in rake you earned like 5 something but I forgot what that something was? That was with the old starscoin right? I recall it was something like you get 5 per $1 rake but forgot what this was.
So you get $40 chest for hitting 20000 points for silver. So that is about how much percent rb? Gold is $125 chest for 50000 points and I recall that is 25% rb.
How exactly do you calculate the amount of points you earn for rake you pay? Example, you play a $22 tournament and pay $2 in rake. You earn how many points exactly? I thought not long ago, it was something like for every $1 in rake you earned like 5 something but I forgot what that something was? That was with the old starscoin rig
Silver is 20% rb.
You earn 100 points for every 1$ raked.
Thanks.
Games are absolutely dead.
Yeah. Discord is basically players complaining about the bugs and the new rb system. They really **** the bed unfortunately.
Evening on the weekend and only a single pool (PLO100) running. 1 regular PLO500 and 1 regular PLO200 table. RIP Stars.
On one hand it's a sad story given the background of the site and what it stood for at it's peak.
On the other hand it's kinda deserved, because Pokerstars in the last decade or so has stood for nothing but corporate greed/profits above all, so it's somewhat satisfying to see it all come around, resulting in their downfall.
One could probably do a thesis on their "work" and how it resulted in the most successful poker brand being run into the dirt, despite their initial (unchallengeable) position in the market.
