*** Mo' Money May Chat Thread ***

[Jagsti]

Woooo, just bought those 3 cash bonus, instantly credited!

 

[BelgoSuisse]

http://www.pokerstars.com/uk/poker/promotions/may-special/?utm_id=4

LOL, the offers so good we had to post it like 17 times!

Wow, i'm jealous. The French PS promotions are usually a new stupid freeroll or something like that. Why are they so nice with the UK players?

 

[Jurn8]

stars <3's UK Mo Fo's !!!!

This promo is better than christmas !!
Looks like I will be supernova next month and chilling out 3.5x fpp's and I will be able to reach more VPP milestones, VIP tourneys arrghhh !!! This day is goot !! But why UK only players?

 

[Jurn8]

Woooo, just bought those 3 cash bonus, instantly credited!

these are better value than all the normal ones right?? So they are worth buying + answer me on MSN mug face!

 

[Jagsti]

Well yeah there worth it coz your getting them at concierge rate of 1.6c/fpp afaik.

 

[icemonkey9]

I gotta admit I am really jealous of this UK promotion. Please let me know when PokerStars runs its first ever US promotion. Ugh.

 

[Jurn8]

shippy ship ship! $184 is ok start to the month, I dont think switch has found out about this yet!

 

[eNTy]

What kind of stupid ass promotion is that.
Making it UK only. What is the reasoning behind that ?

 

[Jurn8]

What kind of stupid ass promotion is that.
Making it UK only. What is the reasoning behind that ?

Uk is the Nutz LDO !!

 

[GunslingerZ]

All the vids by James SplitSuit Sweeny are good FR specific vids. Anything by Ed Miller is always great. That should be more than enough.

Awesome, thanks a lot WV. I'll probably spend most of the spare time I'm able spend on the tables this week to studying videos and trying to get something out of this.

 

[Tygran]

http://www.pokerstars.com/uk/poker/promotions/may-special/?utm_id=4

LOL, the offers so good we had to post it like 17 times!

......


First thing I see this morning was that and the next few things that happened went something like this:

1) clicks link

2) reads page

3) reads page again cause i didn't believe it the first time

4) pinches self to make sure I'm awake

5) that hurt... I'm awake

6) starts checking ip addresses and url's to make sure this isn't a joke link

7) starts looking frantically to see if they are doing anything similar for US

8) can't find a damn thing

9) is now super jealous of everyone of you in the UK

10) is firing off an email to stars support to basically say "WTF?"




That promotion is amazingly awesome to everyone of you in the UK.

Seriously congrats to each and every one of you!

Although I'm not sure why they didn't just make everyone in UK a supernova, send em $500 and a pony instead. Would have been simpler.

 

[Jurn8]

Jay did you get anything in the end then??
We arent clear if current supernova's get anything atm!

 

[Pokertron3000]

Does anyone here remember doing the survey for stars that gained you 300 fpps?

Well one of the questions on it was what incentive would bring you back to stars? And out of the options was a free level jump on vip system which I clicked just because the other options would be much use to me and as a micro stakes player the limit jump wouldnt have been a great benifit where I am but this is an excellent promotion, although I can see me taking shots at different levells in a week or two so my BR might be in danger.

 

[Tygran]

There's a 15 page and counting thread on "the other forum" and they are mostly super pissed off.

Not that that's any surprise...but it's somewhat amusing reading.

 

[S93]

****!
I clicked that link and just saw, Hey Sindri u can make supernova this month and get sick bonuses and VPPs .....BUT WAIT YOUR NOT FROM THE UK, GO **** YOUR SELF! .

Seriously if my sister where still living in the London i would give her my acount for a month...

 

[Jurn8]

People are going nuts about it I think they will either stop it or make it available to everyone !

I dont get if we get to keep it for next year aswell, as in a year of when we make it or is it just until the end of the year. I would have made it anyway just like in October or something but have emailed support to clarify whether I get to keep it for a year if I earn enough VPPs on top of what stars have given me

EDIT AGAIN: looks like we just have to keep SN pace up from next January:

" Even if we (UK players) get SN this year, we'll have to earn 10k points per month to keep it beyong FEB next year...! So, it isnt as easy as it sounds..We arnt getting free SN whole of next year..!! (Having said that, If am playing poker nxt year, I'll probably do enough to keep SN.. Hence, a big THANKS from myself to stars..!! ) !"

From the other forum

I think they will have another sick promo for other countries later in the year but tbh can any promo get better than this? This is worth like what 5k in Rakeback? Somebody said that figure but im not sure how much its worth to me exactly!

 

[S93]

People are going nuts about it I think they will either stop it or make it available to everyone !

Im not pissed cause there running a special promo for UK players, im pissed cause i opened the link with out noticing that it was just for UK players .
Its a awsome promo and i understand why there doing it.
And its not like they havent run special promos for German,French and Nordic players in the past, sadly not as awsome as this thou.

So you guys from the UK start GRIIIIIIIIIINDING!!!!

 

[Tygran]

Hmmm...from Stars support

"Thank you for your response.

We understand your point of view and appreciate your feedback.

Keep in mind that in some cases, before a promotion can be released
worldwide, we must first test it in one country to determine how popular it
is and what our costs and benefits are. We are planning to run this
particular one in the UK for this month and then review the results.

Once said results have been reviewed, the possibilities of launching a bonus
of this nature for the rest of our players on PokerStars will be reviewed
accordingly.

If there is anything else we may help you with, please let us know.

Regards,

Vielka
PokerStars Support Team"


So.... they are at least going to give everyone else the impression they may do this everywhere later?

I can only image what people will be saying next month if it's not rolled out everywhere if they are telling people this now.

 

[BelgoSuisse]

And its not like they havent run special promos for German,French and Nordic players in the past, sadly not as awsome as this thou.

Promos for French players always assume we only play penny stakes. It's more insulting than anything else.

The only funny one was a chance to participate in a reality tv poker academy in Vegas together with Elky and a pornstar.

 

[Jurn8]

If they give it to everybody though whats the point in having SN, It might aswell be bronzestar?
However its also unfair that its given only to the UK players tbh I really dont think the US players will get it because they make up a huge part of the site anyway but what else can they offer?

 

[blankoblanco]

yay may

tomorrow is my birthday! my may will begin some time after the sunday hangover

 

[BelgoSuisse]

If they give it to everybody though whats the point in having SN, It might aswell be bronzestar?

3.5 FPP / 1 VPP. That is worth a shitload of money.

 

[Jurn8]

Yeah I agree its cool for us but if everybody in the world had it stars wouldnt be making so much in rake from the people at silver or platty would they.

Im going to calculate how much this is actually worth to me personally.

 

[dsvw56]

I gotta admit I am really jealous of this UK promotion. Please let me know when PokerStars runs its first ever US promotion. Ugh.

+1

I'd be satisfied with a double VPP week.

 

[icemonkey9]

Ya this really is just a ridiculous promotion, and to only offer it to UK players is yet another "F U" to US players that keep that damn site afloat. Someone please remind me of the last US-only promotion? (oh yeah, there never has been one)

THUS - that's probably why we're all pissed. We're tired of this crap.

EDIT: I'm actually super pissed. I kind of take this as a big middle finger to US and other non-UK players to be honest.