New bonus system for poker stars. PokerStars VIP Statuses

The Stars Rewards program gives you the opportunity to receive rake discounts and additional winnings just by playing at PokerStars. When you open chests with rewards, you get money, tickets to live and online tournaments, as well as gold StarsCoins.

Stars Rewards Points

If you want to open reward chests, find the Stars Rewards widget in the client and click the "Start" button to start earning rewards:

• Poker - Players receive 100 points for every $1 rake (130 for £1.80 and 110 for €1), excluding some types of poker and betting.
• Casino - Players receive reward points for wagering based on their size and game type.
• Sports betting - players receive reward points for betting (5.5 bonus points for each $1 bet, further depending on the odds).

Stars Rewards

Stars Rewards

Rewards are personalized based on your gaming preferences. For example, prizes in the form of free tickets to tournaments will be given to users who prefer poker. If you are not interested in casino games, you will not see free spins and the like in the prize chest.

The contents of the chests are random. Usually there are StarsCoins, additional bonus points, tournament tickets, money and prize packages for PokerStars live events.

Prize boxes in the new PokerStars VIP system are of different colors and contain different rewards. Their distribution depends on the type of chests:

But the Stars Rewards program also has the best rewards for regular players to get in addition to their regular prizes.

Stars Rewards Progress Bar

You can see the progress and filling indicator of your chest in the client lobby:

Once you have filled the indicator, you are entitled to open the chest. There is no limit to the number of chests you can win each day.

Please note that your progress bar will reset if you have been inactive for three full calendar months. Check your rewards in My Stars for details on specific prize expiration dates.

Star Rewards- a new PokerStars loyalty program that came in the summer of 2017 to replace rewards for VIP statuses. Thanks to the Stars Rewards system, players can receive rewards personally and for every game they play!

How does the new system work and how to get rewards?

Playing for real money earns you Stars Rewards points.

After collecting a certain number of points, you become the owner of a gift. This is a virtual chest full of personalized prizes. For each dollar paid in rake, you will be credited exactly 100 points.

If earlier your rewards were determined by the earned VIP status, now the value and number of prizes depends on the level of the gift you filled yourself with. These levels are currently six.

The exact number of points for each gift depends on what level of gift you want to receive, as well as on the history of your game on PokerStars.

Beginners need to score fewer points than for regulars playing at higher stakes. So, to fill the most minimal gift - red - with rewards up to $50, for newly registered players, you need 150 points.

The following factors affect the number of points for earning gifts:

• recent gaming activity;
• game formats that you preferred;
• history of deposits.

Please note: Stars Rewards Points will slowly but surely accrue to you for any real money poker play and other Poker Stars products, including casinos and sports betting!

You can follow the progress of earning the next gift on a special scale, which is displayed in the client program to the left of the balance field (previously, the process of overcoming the next stage of the VIP status in the step-by-step PokerStars VIP program was displayed at this place). As you approach the next gift, this strip begins to turn red.

Note. For 1 pound rake paid you get 130 points, for 1 Canadian dollar - 80 points, for 1 euro - 110 points.

What rewards are provided by the new system and how often can I receive them?

Each virtual chest has personalized content tailored to the gaming preferences of the user who won the gift. The gift may include:

• coins StarsCoin;
• tournament tickets (including Spin&Go);
• tournament money;
• free spins at the casino;
• instant bonuses.

If you do not play, say, Spin&Go at all, then tickets for it will not be included in your gifts.

As noted earlier, there are 6 different types of gifts available in the game, and for each type there are 8 possible sets of prizes for a certain amount:

1. Red gift - from $0.07 to $50;
2. Blue gift - from $0.21 to $100;
3. Bronze gift - from $0.53 to $250;
4. Silver gift - from $1.33 to $500;
5. Gold gift - from $3.44 to $750;
6. Platinum gift - from $10.37 to $1,000.

When you earn one or another gift, you will randomly drop one of the eight possible sets of prizes for this chest: for example, a bronze gift with tournament tickets and money to the account for a total of $5.3.

ATTENTION: you can earn an unlimited number of gifts every day!

In addition to the earned chest, you can also receive a special super reward. It also drops out randomly, but provides significantly larger prizes than regular chests. The higher the level of the gift that you earn, the larger the super reward will be and the more likely you will be to receive it!

What is the probability of my reward dropping in a gift of a particular level?

For a complete list of rewards for gifts and the chances of them falling, see the table.

How to move to a new level of gifts?

Each type of gift is a kind of old VIP status. You start off by earning Red Gifts, but you can level up to earn Blue Gifts, and if you play even harder, you'll reach Bronze and other levels.

To go to the next level of chests, you need to get four gifts current level per day from 7 am Moscow time to 7 am the next day. Please note that blue tier gifts and above will require more points to earn than red tier gifts: the higher the level, the more points you will have to earn.

There is also such a nuance when stuffing prizes: if the last three gifts were stuffed on different days (in other words, if you earned one gift in one or more sessions), then the points requirements on the progress bar will be adjusted in accordance with your activity so that PokerStars could provide you with the opportunity to receive chests on a regular basis!

Is it possible to earn gifts on PokerStars faster?

You can speed up the process of earning gifts with the help of boosters, which double the number of points earned. Let's say you have a 20 point booster. After earning 20 points and using the booster, you will get 40 points as a result.

New booster will be given after 8 hours after using the old one.

Other nuances and conditions of the Stars Rewards system

• All gifts and boosters are valid for three calendar months from the date of receipt, after which they are irreversibly reset.
• In the "My Stars" section of the toolbar on the right, find out how long you can use your rewards. If you do not play for money on your account within three months, your progress bar will also be reset.
• StarsCoin coins are saved on your balance. Their purpose remains the same as it was before the launch of StarsRewards: purchase of goods in the VIP store (now it is the StarsRewards store), registration in some tournaments, exchange of coins for real money. However, StarsCoin will reset if you do not earn any Stars Rewards points within six months.
• The balance of StarsCoin coins, tournament money, instant bonuses and free spins can be viewed in the Cashier section.
• Poker Stars reserves the exclusive right to change the terms and conditions of the Stars Rewards program at any time. In addition, the poker room may refuse you to receive rewards if it suspects that you are playing fraudulently or want to receive rewards without playing for money.

Literally a day after the announcement of the updated PartyPoker loyalty program, the largest room PokerStars strikes back. What will be at the forefront of the new Red Pike VIP system? Find out in our material.

Stars Rewards - rewards for everyone

The network has the first information about the new system of rewards for playing at PokerStars. While there is no exact data on the numbers and release date, however, a new principle for encouraging players is known - this is chests with random prizes.

For playing poker, casino or sports betting, users will receive chests that contain personalized rewards. They will fully meet your interests. Play more - get bigger chests. You can open them any time you like.

a casino lover and, say, an Omaha Spin&Go player can receive in these chests both tournament tickets with a random value, as well as a certain number of free spins in a certain slot or a bonus on the next deposit. Players will no longer be able to calculate their approximate expectation for a month of playing in a room, as the rewards will become random.

Unfortunately, information about how difficult it is to get one chest and how much value it contains for players of different levels is still unknown. As the official announcement says, some “boosts” will be available for users, which double the speed of receiving rewards for daily play and so on.

It is currently stated that the StarsCoins currency will remain intact and will function as before: it can be exchanged for tournament tickets, souvenirs, money and tickets for the game The Deal.

PokerStars is launching a new bonus program at the end of May in Denmark, and will probably transfer it to the main client by the summer. We have seen this pattern many times before. Moving away from years of classic direct rakeback scheme will be the biggest change to the PokerStars VIP program of all time. It should be noted that a similar scheme with "chests" and random rewards has been used for several years by card video games (HearthStone, Gwent and others).

During the transition to the new rewards system, we expect that some of our users (in particular, regular players) will either adjust or not accept these changes. This could result in a short-term decline in our company's revenues.

Rafi Ashkenazi, CEO of Amaya Inc.

Cancellation of multiple SCOOP tournaments

Now to today's news. Several PokerStars SCOOP tournaments have been canceled due to technical problems on the room's servers that lasted more than two hours. The management apologized to the victims, canceled the events and within a few days promises to pay the prize money to all the participants remaining in the game (at the time of the disconnect) in accordance with their rules.

Due to the fact that the payout process is expected to be slow, and it also has its own pitfalls (some people have abused late registration in certain events), the SCOOP series will last one day longer than planned.

Severin Russet, Chief Innovation Officer PokerStars, posted a blog entry in which it was written that soon the room will completely switch from a multi-level monthly VIP program to daily payments, which will not only become several times smaller, but will also carry some element of randomness.

Starting July 7, a new loyalty program is being introduced in all countries: Stars Rewards. No more VPPs and VIP Steps. Now there will only be chests... Chests! This is another step towards turning online poker into a kind of slots and games on social networks. All details below.

The largest poker room announced a new method of rewarding regular players back in April of this year, but then almost nothing was clear. But already in May, a post was rolled out on the official blog about what Stars Rewards are.

This is a bonus system that applies to poker players, casinos, and sports bettors. The more you play for real money, the more points you get reward points. They, in turn, gradually fill a special indicator. When it is full, a prize will open - a chest with various random prizes: tickets to tournaments, spin-and-go, money.

Chests come in six types: Red, Blue, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum. The more you play, the higher the chance of getting a more valuable container. The more expensive the chest, the more valuable the prizes. For example, in gold and platinum you can win up to $1,000, 1,000,000 StarsCoin or a PokerStars Championship package worth several thousand dollars.

Features of the Stars Rewards System

So, we have a classic system used in many computer games. The player gets pretty chests, clicks on them, pretty prizes come out of them - while everything sparkles and shines.

The same principle is used, by the way, in the Hearthstone game, which is popular among poker players, where you can buy closed “decks” from which cards randomly fall out - most often cheap ones fall, but sometimes legendary ones also come out.

PokerStars, in fact, did not come up with anything new, but went along the beaten path. So, what should you pay attention to first of all:

1. Prizes are individualized. This is the most important point. In theory, this means that if you play tournaments, you are more likely to be given tournament tickets or money. If you prefer Spin and Go, get something for them.

There is also a logical division into poker, casino and sports betting. BUT! As we all know very well, there is a clear division into poker markets, which have their own characteristics. Moreover, PokerStars has a huge database of all its players - and they know who can painlessly accrue large prizes, and who can not. For example, if a player often makes large deposits and drains them quickly, it makes sense to reward him with a good chest. And the regular, who counts every cent, slips "dummy".

1. The probabilities of receiving prizes are known in advance. Thus, the most expensive cash prizes fall with the probability 1 in 10,000(0.01%), and the cheapest (in a platinum chest it will be $10.70) - with a probability of 32.99%.
2. Prizes are completely random which means: distributed using a pseudo-random number generator (PRNG). In fact, we do not know this and cannot verify it in any way.

CS:GO experience

Probably the most famous example of such a system (namely chests) in the gaming world is CS:GO. A sea of ​​sites offer to buy containers, which can contain expensive skins for weapons or just money. Moreover, many of these sites simply rob gullible users.

In the best case, the player will gradually drain the money. A chest, let's say, costs $1. It - according to the assurances of the creators of the site - can be prizes in the amount of $0.5 to $100. And the system works in such a way that at a distance the player always wins less than he invests.

As for PokerStars, there are some pitfalls. It's no secret to anyone that The room has long divided the players into recreational and regular players. The former even receive a different mailing list. And how can you be sure that amateurs will not be given other chests that are more valuable? No way.

You just need to believe in the word ...

In general, at the end of next week all this will become clearer. And then we will say goodbye to an entire era of poker. People will soon forget what rakeback and VIP system is. More complex gives way to more attractive to the mass audience. We have been seeing the same thing for many years in the example of Hollywood, television and the Internet in general.

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