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Tygran · Apr 8, 2008

Just thought I'd give you guys a heads up.. stars is actually running a reload bonus atm.

PokerStars - 20% Reload Bonus - Battle of the Planets

KingCurtis · Apr 8, 2008

ohhhh nice this will come in handy!!

Monoxide · Apr 8, 2008

lol the night before i deposit on PS they do a reload bonus gggggggg.

tenbob · Apr 8, 2008

Yep I always keep $600 in Neteller for these.

$120 tyvm stars.

ChuckTs · Apr 8, 2008

sighhh I need a damn credit card so I can take advantage of this stuff. ffs.

zachvac · Apr 8, 2008

@%@#%@#@#%@#%@%##@% 3 days later and I could do this.

xCashin_inx · Apr 8, 2008

* To earn the 20% deposit bonus, a player must earn 20 VPPs per bonus dollar (example: to earn a $120 bonus you must earn 2400 VPPs). To receive your bonus, you must earn the required VPPs within 3 months of your qualifying deposit. To earn the entire $120 bonus, your first eligible deposit during the bonus period must be for $600 or more. Only the first deposit made during the bonus period is eligible for the bonus. For full bonus details click here.

SOMEONE THAT IS SMARTER THAN ME PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS BECAUSE IM THINKING ABOUT PUTTING IN 100 BUCKS JUST TO GET THE 20% BONUS BUT I DONT UNDERSTAND THE STIPULATIONS

Monoxide · Apr 8, 2008

100 bucks.... 20% bonus aka $20.

600 bucks (max) 20% bonus aka $120.

So for your case, to earn your extra $20 you need to earn 400 VPP points.

I deposited $400 to play rings (up to $680 now ^^) at 12:31 AM last night, well this morning technically, so I missed it by what, 12 hours?

I emailed stars and see if they will hook me up with a bonus on my account.

bustme · Apr 8, 2008

I deposited 600 dollar today and here is the info written

in cashier - check my bonus status :

Deposit date
2008/04/08

Pending bonus
120$

Required
2400 Base FPP

Expiration date
2008/07/07

Stick66 · Apr 8, 2008

Monoxide said:
100 bucks.... 20% bonus aka $20.

600 bucks (max) 20% bonus aka $120.

So for your case, to earn your extra $20 you need to earn 400 VPP points.

I deposited $400 to play rings (up to $680 now ^^) at 12:31 AM last night, well this morning technically, so I missed it by what, 12 hours?

I emailed stars and see if they will hook me up with a bonus on my account.

Dang! Isn't it usually only 10 FPPs per dollar? I just deposited 2 days ago and I was mad until I saw this. Oh well.

xCashin_inx · Apr 8, 2008

How long is it going to take me to get those 400VPP? Is it realistic? I dont understand the VPP's

bustme · Apr 8, 2008

xCashin_inx said:
How long is it going to take me to get those 400VPP? Is it realistic? I dont understand the VPP's

what are you playing ?

xCashin_inx · Apr 8, 2008

If im playing serious .25/.50...
If im just lookin for fun .5/.10..

Usually about 50/50

Monoxide · Apr 9, 2008

ahahaha they gave me the bonus nice, 1920 to clear total...

shinedown.45 · Apr 9, 2008

xCashin_inx said:
* To earn the 20% deposit bonus, a player must earn 20 VPPs per bonus dollar (example: to earn a $120 bonus you must earn 2400 VPPs). To receive your bonus, you must earn the required VPPs within 3 months of your qualifying deposit. To earn the entire $120 bonus, your first eligible deposit during the bonus period must be for $600 or more. Only the first deposit made during the bonus period is eligible for the bonus. For full bonus details click here.

SOMEONE THAT IS SMARTER THAN ME PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS BECAUSE IM THINKING ABOUT PUTTING IN 100 BUCKS JUST TO GET THE 20% BONUS BUT I DONT UNDERSTAND THE STIPULATIONS

Play Poker for Free Online Promotions and Freerolls look here for FPP info

smd173 · Apr 9, 2008

xCashin_inx said:
How long is it going to take me to get those 400VPP? Is it realistic? I dont understand the VPP's

I once cleared 500 F/VPPs in 7 weeks playing mainly .50/$1 Limit games.

Tygran · Apr 9, 2008

Eh how long it takes to clear VPP's really depends on 1) the limits you play and 2) how many tables you play.

To give you a rough idea I've been playing 6-tables of $25 NL full ring for a while tonight and i've cleared umm... 193 VPPs at the time of this post.

1007 more to go!

/cleared ~1700 in one week (7 days) back a few months.
//yes I was sorta physically attached to the computer.

GabryRox · Apr 9, 2008

xCashin_inx said:
If im playing serious .25/.50...
If im just lookin for fun .5/.10..

Usually about 50/50

If playing ring games, you'll need the pot to reach $8.00 to earn 1 F/VPP (only for hand that you play in). In my experience, you'll pretty much never reach that at the .05/.10 level, and only sporadically at the .25/.50 level. To really start accumulating F/VPP's, you'd probably have to start playing .50/$1.00 more often, especially if you're going for the full $120 bonus. If only going for $20 or $40 in 3 months, you'd probably be ok playing .25/.50 and/or $3+ SnG's. That's the route I'm going.

bustme · Apr 9, 2008

xCashin_inx said:
If im playing serious .25/.50...
If im just lookin for fun .5/.10..

Usually about 50/50

I have now played 1200 hands on NL 100 and I have earned 620 Base FPP

So at NL 50 you have to play about 1200 *2 = 2400 * 4 = 9600 hands to get the bonus (that is if you are goldstar like I am , if you are bronzestar ore silverstar I think you must add between 2-4000 hands extra)

The normal hands per hour is among 60 hands per table.
( I dont now what the hand pr hour is on the fast tables)

The bonus was harder to clear than I thought.. I thought it would take me 3 hours to clear but no... It will take me in total about 1200*4 = 4800 hands...

That is among 8 hours for me if I play 8 tables at once in NL100.

Tygran · Apr 9, 2008

bustme said:
So at NL 50 you have to play about 1200 *2 = 2400 * 4 = 9600 hands to get the bonus (that is if you are goldstar like I am , if you are bronzestar ore silverstar I think you must add between 2-4000 hands extra)

You are right that lower limits = more hands needed to clear bonuses but bronze/silver/goldstar doesn't make any difference at all.

You have to get VPPs to clear a bonus. silver/gold star status increases your FPP earn rate. At bronze star 1 VPP = 1 FPP. At silverstar 1 VPP = 1.5 FPP and at gold 1 VPP = 2 FPP.

VPPs are what matter for clearing the bonus so if you need 1000 VPP's to clear your bonus (nice round number) you have to earn those 1000 regardless of your status. ALL status levels have to earn those 1000 VPPs (earned in exactly the same way for all). The only difference is if you are bronzestar you get 1000 FPPs from clearing your bonus. If you are silverstar you get 1500 FPPs, etc.

SeanyJ · Apr 9, 2008

bustme said:
So at NL 50 you have to play about 1200 *2 = 2400 * 4 = 9600 hands to get the bonus (that is if you are goldstar like I am , if you are bronzestar ore silverstar I think you must add between 2-4000 hands extra)

The bonus requires you to get VPP not FPP, it doesn't matter which Star level you are at you get the same VPP as everyone else.

Edit: I was too slow

zachvac · Apr 9, 2008

bustme said:
I have now played 1200 hands on NL 100 and I have earned 620 Base FPP

So at NL 50 you have to play about 1200 *2 = 2400 * 4 = 9600 hands to get the bonus (that is if you are goldstar like I am , if you are bronzestar ore silverstar I think you must add between 2-4000 hands extra)

This is bad logic. Double the blinds does not equate to double the VPPs.

Someone linked to a 2+2 thread that used this:

25NL - 0.125 VPPs/hand (125 VPPs per 1000 hands)

50NL - 0.23 VPPs/hand (230 VPPs per 1000 hands)

100NL - 0.38 VPPs/hand (380 VPPs per 1000 hands)

So depending on how many hands/hour you play (multitabling helps in this regard) you can figure out how long you have to play. Alternatively, the lowest limit HORSE games on stars are very soft and because of how loose people play in limit games can get you VPPs very quickly. I 4-tabled and was making about 100/hour. These have 5 cent ante's for the ante games and 25c/50c blinds for the hold 'em and omaha games with the small bets of 50c and the big bets of $1.

bustme · Apr 9, 2008

Deam,.,.Thats why I thought the bonus was easy to clear since I thought it was FPP.......

Thanks for clearing out the numbers zachvac.And I have never tried horse, but it looks promising when you profit that much on it...

GunslingerZ · Apr 10, 2008

I can't believe they made this one 20 VPPs per dollar of bonus. I'm very busy for the next few months, so I'm not even going to try it, I won't be able to clear it. If they gave the bonus if chunks, like FT, then I could. Oh well, maybe next time.

odinscott · Apr 12, 2008

Holy schmoly is it really? I wont be able to clear mine either...

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