How many hands at $25NL to earn 500 FPP's on Stars?

I've looked at the Stars web site and found this page:
http://www.pokerstars.com/fpp/#earn

However, it still isn't clear just how long/how many hands it would take to earn roughly 500 FPP's, playing $25NL. Anybody know?

I'm assuming you mean VPPs since FPPs are multiplier dependent. At 25NL you earn roughly 10VPP/100 hands, so it'll take like 5000 hands give or take to make 500 VPPs.

Hmmmmm, I'm not sure about the distinctions between VPPs and FPPs since I don't play at Stars a lot, but there's a tournament I want to enter at the end of the month that has a buyin of 2,000 FPPs. I have almost 1,500... thus the wondering what I'd need to do to get the rest in time.

I see that I could also do it by playing 100 $10 SNGs.

At the first VIP club level (Bronze) FPP's and VPP's are basically the same. You get one FPP for every VPP. At the higher VIP levels (Silver, Gold, Platinum, etc.) there are multipliers, so you get a certain multiple of FPP's (1.5x, 2x, 2.5x, etc.) for every VPP. The number of VPP's awarded for each type of game is constant, but FPP's are dependent on what VIP level you're in.

dsvw56 has got it right. This month, I've earned just under 700 FPP as Bronze Star (1 vpp = 1 fpp) in 6,500 hands at 25NL. But, I've also played some SNG/MTTs, so those figures come with an asterisk attached. Early evening and weekend grinding is better for FPP because when the crazies come out $8 pots are much more common.

If your BR and sanity can handle it, there's a lot of FPP to be earned playing higher level limit poker. It's easy to find a $1/$2 Limit table where the average pot is higher than $8, so you'd be earning an FPP almost every hand.

Thanks, guys. So I'm looking at 100 SNGs, ~5,000 hands at $25 NL, or bite the bullet and play some limit poker.

I actually like limit hold 'em, but I'm not good at it. Sometimes I play it when I'm multitasking because one or two tables of limit take so much less focus than several tables of no limit, but much as I hate to say it, I usually come out as a loser there. I've been told I'm not aggressive enough, that I should be check raising more, etc. The theory is there but for some reason it isn't flowing for me.

Really wish I got rakeback for playing at Stars. Humph, oh well.

In case anyone is interested, I cleared the 500 points needed by playing about 2,300 hands of .50/1 limit hold 'em, 4 tables for around 10 hours total.

Actually came out about $20 ahead, too, and rekindled an interest in improving my limit game, which still sucks.

roundcat said:

In case anyone is interested, I cleared the 500 points needed by playing about 2,300 hands of .50/1 limit hold 'em, 4 tables for around 10 hours total.

Actually came out about $20 ahead, too, and rekindled an interest in improving my limit game, which still sucks.

Click to expand...

Good stuff. As much as I dislike grinding Limit, I think every poker player should play it as they're establishing their game. There's a lot of poker fundamentals to be learned there. Plus, we need more fish playing HORSE.