paying for play money chips

rachelle2291 · Jul 15, 2018

on pokerstars you can buy play money chips with real money! what kind of sense does that make? why would anyone want to do that? why not make a deposit instead? could someone please enlighten me?

Psyanide14 · Jul 15, 2018

I thought the same thing when I saw an ad for a buy a play money set and get one free. Not sure what the point is. If I’m spending real money I want to win real money.

Poker Orifice · Aug 25, 2018

rachelle2291 said:
on pokerstars you can buy play money chips with real money! what kind of sense does that make? why would anyone want to do that? why not make a deposit instead? could someone please enlighten me?

It is completely ridiculous! Actually playing playchip games period is a complete waste of time... it does not even remotely resemble the real game of poker. (I'd rather play crazy 8's)

fantasyyboyy · Aug 25, 2018

It's really strange that only guess is to organize tournaments of home games with the aim of doing advertising, otherwise I can not think!

playinggameswithu · Aug 25, 2018

Zyna poker makes a lot of money from this play chip nonsense. The real money game is 20x more difficult especially at the $5/10 and more.

copycutpaste · Aug 25, 2018

I don't know...have not played on Pokerstars for LONG time...not since real money in states was closed...I did play for money and wondered why they didn't sell play chips...some people (especially in US) can only play play chips...I could see buying some...dropping $20 to be able to play larger tables...maybe...If you play a lot and are low on chips maybe from bad streak or whatever...really no different than buying a game on Play Store...when I was playing you could only bring 40k to table...I just logged in to my old account and now they have all kinds of tables now...I still have a shitload of chips so I have played a bit...just logged in because I wanna play league play here at CC...

Psyanide14 · Aug 25, 2018

But look at all the slot games out there that use just play coins. People spend a fortune buying fake coins to try and win more fake coins. I understand this even less that play chips with poker.

xbronk · Aug 25, 2018

people do it to practice is easier to practice with money foctocio than with real money:thefinger

ceco99 · Aug 26, 2018

My personal observation is that many people prefer to play poker without wanting to risk losing a lot of money and as a result, to master the most important tactics and strategies. play money you you add 1000000 chips for $ 20 for example.

hern2222 · Aug 26, 2018

Funny story, I actually sold 1,000,000 play chips for one dollar. I was a young kid in high school and my older brother's friend played on fulltilt. I wound up making an account to play for play chips, and my brother's friend mentioned that you could sell them online. I forget now where i sold them, as this was close to ten years ago, but it was funny at the time. I was so proud of that dollar, which I then promptly lost haha.

Bobby6Hill · Aug 26, 2018

lawl

yeah i spent a few bucks back in the facebook poker days.. wouldn't do it now but i see why people would.

vtorr007 · Aug 26, 2018

when you play for real money you will have better chance to increase your skills asset as you progress

619Leafs · Aug 26, 2018

rachelle2291 said:
on pokerstars you can buy play money chips with real money! what kind of sense does that make? why would anyone want to do that? why not make a deposit instead? could someone please enlighten me?

Yeah I don't understand paying for play money. Makes no sense.

lsbenn · Aug 26, 2018

Why pay real money for play money chips when you get 15,000 in play chips free every 4 hours at poker stars.

Dzob · Aug 28, 2018

If someone wants to play for millions of dollars with only a few dollars, he only has to buying play money.

freestocks · Aug 28, 2018

Play money chips are stupid.

Spaceman · Aug 28, 2018

playinggameswithu said:
Zyna poker makes a lot of money from this play chip nonsense. The real money game is 20x more difficult especially at the $5/10 and more.

Exactly that! Zynga makes money from players buying play chips, so Pokerstars thought why not

Also if you google "selling pokerstars play chips" you will find a site, I dont know if its a scam or not, that buys your play chips. So maybe play chips can have some value after all.

Chief talking bull · Aug 28, 2018

That's just nuts. I can't even find any interest in playing with play chips for free. But if they can get people to pay for that, good luck to them.

MatMackenz · Aug 28, 2018

I can tell you exactly why they sell play money chips. Because it is extremely profitable for them. There are a lot of countries that are not allowed to play real money poker. USA is a huge one and this makes up a majority of players playing for play chips. I used to play a lot at wsop App on ipad. Seemed like lots of people willing to pay for chips and lose them, just for the sake of playing. I found the ring games especailly to be rediculous on play money sites. You literally will never have a heads-up pot unless you go all-in preflop.. people just limp in any cards from any position. People just spew chips and keep buying. There is probably some good players that the chips will eventually funnel towards.

They even run a Sunday BILLION tournament where you buy-in for play chips which is suppose to be the play version of the Sunday Million

https://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/sunday-billion/

dbchristy · Aug 28, 2018

This is tooooooooo funny! I learned to play on Pokerstars. With Play money. I was tooooooooooo scared to play with real money SO i bought 100 bux a month in playmoney LOL then one day I invested a bux someone sent me in a sng I won and its been cash ever since. That was in 2004. I just smiled when i seen this post. im one of the dummies..LOL

cranberry · Aug 30, 2018

On play money in poker are played during the initial stages of training and during acquaintance with the client program PokerStars.
Many players do not take seriously the play money. But I noticed that at high limits on play money, the game of poker passes quite qualitatively.

Fastone2 · Aug 30, 2018

Why would they sell you, play chips?
How much are the chips worth if ya, return the chips?
can u win money at all?

Chemist · Sep 2, 2018

rachelle2291 said:
on pokerstars you can buy play money chips with real money! what kind of sense does that make? why would anyone want to do that? why not make a deposit instead? could someone please enlighten me?

I couldn't see any sense in it either, so I read through the thread just to see if there would be any enlightenment.

Barbarik · Sep 2, 2018

To me this topic is interesting, scored chips and get so much money, I would have played

Chalada12 · Sep 2, 2018

rachelle2291 said:
on pokerstars you can buy play money chips with real money! what kind of sense does that make? why would anyone want to do that? why not make a deposit instead? could someone please enlighten me?

The easiest way to get free play money is to go the CASHIER and click COLLECT to top up your play money chips. You will be able to collect 12’500 + chips every 4 Hours.

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