PokerStars VIP Club
Posted by PokerMarketingCode on Thursday, December 16, 2010
If you are thinking about reasons to play on PokerStars, none are as important as its VIP Club, which awards its players with a ton of excellent prizes which include cash rewards and run all the way up to a brand new car. Despite PokerStars not offering authentic rakeback, getting some hands in on Poker Stars.com awards you VIP Player points, and these in turn will get you an entrance in the top texas holdem sites loyalty program on the net, period! What is more, just make a comparison with other rakeback and loyalty programs and you will see for yourself that you will be getting a ton of additional benefits in this one if you play just a moderate amount.
It goes like this. Each individual player on PS.com begins his or her voyage as a BronzeStar, which is the lowest VIP level (more on that later). Get some playing done on the site and you will be generating the aforementioned VIP Player Points. Once you generate enough rake you will have advanced in VIP level. Some VIP levels are monthly, meaning that they will have to be renewed each month for an additional month of membership. Others are yearly, meaning that it will be valid until at least the next February, and to extend them beyond that you need to accumulate a certain amount of VPP each month thereafter. As you reach the higher VIP levels, it will be easier and easier to get FPPs and the more things will be available to you in the VIP store, such as bigger bonuses etc.
Let's get started in giving you a taste of what many consider is the best rewards system offered by us poker sites!
But first, let us explain some of the prime details. Playing real money games on the PokerStars Download, whether cash games or tournaments, VIP Player Points will be coming your way. How high you get in the VIP club is related to how many VPPs you accrue over either a calendar month or a calendar year. By playing real money games and earning VPP in the process you will be collecting FPPs as quickly as your current multiplier dictates, which in turn is determined by the level you were when the hand or tournament was played. Frequent Player points are the heart of the PS VIP Store, and you can use them to purchase a smorgasbord of items which range from Stress Spades to cookie baskets to monetary bonuses and also a new car. You will also be able to directly buy your way into land based events and also WCOOP and SCOOP type events using nothing but FPP's.
Unleashing VPPs is done in the following manner: 5.5 VPPs per dollar and 8 VPPs spent for every Euro in tournament fees, and in cash games this will depend on how many were seated and dealt cards in a hands. With 8 or more seats, 6VPPs will be awarded for every $1 in rake collected, and 8.5 VPP per Euro raked, maxing out at $3 or €3. When we are talking about games which have an amount of seats that is under 7 or exactly 8, we will be getting as an amount of 5.5VPP per 1 USD raked and 85VPP per 1 Euro raked. The amount of VPPs awarded will then be evenly split among everybody who got dealt into the hand.
First up is BronzeStar, which is the level at which every players starts out. This level has no FPP multiplier bonus, which means you will get 1 Frequent Player point for every single VIP Player Point you accumulate. Most of the really good stuff will be either unlocked or prohibitively expensive FPP-wise in the VIP store while playing at this level, but you will still be able to spend your Frequent Player points on a wide variety of Poker Books, clothing items and also poker accessories including playing cards and dealer buttons.
The following step up the VIP club levels is the SilverStar level. To reach this level you will have to accumulate 750 VPP's in a single month. SilverStar is also where we see the introduction to the FPP multiplier effect, which basically means that your rate of accumulation of VPPs and FPPs will now differ. Remember, at BronzeStar you were collecting 1 FPP for every 1 VPP you gain: at SilverStar FPPs will come in 50% as fast, which means that you will be getting 1.5 FPPs for every 1 VPP you generate. SilverStar specific items include a special $50 VIP Reward Bonus (not cash) that you will have pay 5,000 FPPs to acquire and earn 350 VPPs to clear, a lot of clothing accessories and a plethora of electronic equipment and gift certificates for a lot of stores with locations all over the world, and all of this is on top of the things you had access to as a BronzeStar.
Next up is the GoldStar VIP level. All you have to do to become one is generate 3,000 VPPs in a month. Benefits you can expect for being a GoldStar include a 2x FPP multiplier, which basically means your earning rate of FPPs will increase by 100%! You will also have access in the VIP store to everything the BronzeStar and the SilverStar levels can, but you will also get access to a few GoldStar-specific items, including among many a 500 piece poker chip set and $320 and $530 buy-ins for online tourneys. Also available for GoldStars is a selection of PokerStars.com money clips, which are very useful aside from looking good.
And the last monthly VIP Level is PlatinumStar. Just earn 7,500 VPPs in any given month and this level is yours. Arguably the best benefit available to PlatinumStars is the 2.5x multiplier which makes it very easy to generate enough FPPs to buy everything in the store, and you will also have access to pretty much every non-cash item in the store. Every item that is available to the lesser VIP levels will be unlocked for PlatinumStars and aside from that you will also have exclusive goodies, including among many: a variety of cash bonuses going all the way up to $650 and a variety of big screen TVs. Generating FPPs to buy things in the store becomes incredibly easy at this level: meeting the requirements to maintain your level means that you will be earning at least 20,000 or so FPPs each and every single month.
The next VIP level is Supernova. Since its one of the yearly levels, to become a Supernova you would have to earn a minimum of 100,000 VIP Player Points between January 1st and December 31st of any given year. This will basically make you eligible for almost all of the PokerStars Bonus Code deals in the VIP store, including the $1500 and the $4000 bonuses which are exclusive to this level. These bonuses cost 100,000 and 250,000 FPPs respectively, and will require you to earn 10,500 and 25,000 VPPs respectively within 90 days to clear them. Of course, you can take these bonuses as many times as you want (assuming you have the required FPPs to do it) but can only clear 1 at a time. Hopefully you are starting to see how much money you will be able to make while a Supernova on Poker Stars.
And the biggest item of all, the Porsche Cayman S, becomes available to users of this level, but to get it you will have to spend 3,000,000 FPPs, so getting it while being purely a Supernova will be quite a stretch. If you ever want to reach this incredible status, make sure you brush up with PokerStars’ free poker training to get your game ready for the challenge.
Also available exclusively to Supernovas and above is the very popular PokerStars concierge service. To use it you would have to simply buy something with a total value greater than $500 and then mail the receipts to PokerStars, and then you will have the equivalent amount in FPPs deducted from your account, with the money you spent now deposited in your account. The amount of FPPs required will obviously vary depending on what you bought, and any q's you may have you should get in contact with the legendary PS customer support and they will give you the lowdown on it.
But that's definitely not all. If you are really dedicated, you should definitely try to reach the SNE VIP Level. It's the very best VIP player level on PS and requires 1,000,000 VPPs to reach, and will also make everything in the VIP store instantly available. It is also a yearly VIP level meaning it is good until the next February. In a nutshell, you just reached the top of the mountain if you attain Supernova Elite.
This level awards you 5 FPPs for every single VPP you earn, which means an amazing 400% increase. On the road to reach Supernova Elite however, PS has implemented a whole host of cash bonuses which will be available to you every time you cross a 100K VPP milestone. On your way you will encounter a ton of these bonuses plus others that you will be able to purchase, and the totals amount to very close to $100,000. Without a doubt, it is a very lucrative affair to get to SNE.
Each individual level also has access to Daily, Weekly and Monthly VIP tourneys using FPPs to buy-in; check the website or the PokerStars client for more details. And to help you make your way up the various VIP levels, PokerStars will be giving out various milestone bonuses that reward you for reaching various amounts of yearly VPPs. Further details are available on the site.
The PokerStars VIP program is considered by many to be the best loyalty program of all PC and Mac Poker sites. There is a lot of money just laying there for grabs in on PokerStars, and the more you play the more money you will be making. Also, the motivation you get when you reach the next VIP level should not be overlooked, as it will keep you focused on the grind. But with all this knowledge under your belt, and know for certain just how lucrative playing poker on PokerStars is, what are you waiting for? If you start playing today you will still be able to make PlatinumStar this month, and maybe even Supernova elite this year!
It goes like this. Each individual player on PS.com begins his or her voyage as a BronzeStar, which is the lowest VIP level (more on that later). Get some playing done on the site and you will be generating the aforementioned VIP Player Points. Once you generate enough rake you will have advanced in VIP level. Some VIP levels are monthly, meaning that they will have to be renewed each month for an additional month of membership. Others are yearly, meaning that it will be valid until at least the next February, and to extend them beyond that you need to accumulate a certain amount of VPP each month thereafter. As you reach the higher VIP levels, it will be easier and easier to get FPPs and the more things will be available to you in the VIP store, such as bigger bonuses etc.
Let's get started in giving you a taste of what many consider is the best rewards system offered by us poker sites!
But first, let us explain some of the prime details. Playing real money games on the PokerStars Download, whether cash games or tournaments, VIP Player Points will be coming your way. How high you get in the VIP club is related to how many VPPs you accrue over either a calendar month or a calendar year. By playing real money games and earning VPP in the process you will be collecting FPPs as quickly as your current multiplier dictates, which in turn is determined by the level you were when the hand or tournament was played. Frequent Player points are the heart of the PS VIP Store, and you can use them to purchase a smorgasbord of items which range from Stress Spades to cookie baskets to monetary bonuses and also a new car. You will also be able to directly buy your way into land based events and also WCOOP and SCOOP type events using nothing but FPP's.
Unleashing VPPs is done in the following manner: 5.5 VPPs per dollar and 8 VPPs spent for every Euro in tournament fees, and in cash games this will depend on how many were seated and dealt cards in a hands. With 8 or more seats, 6VPPs will be awarded for every $1 in rake collected, and 8.5 VPP per Euro raked, maxing out at $3 or €3. When we are talking about games which have an amount of seats that is under 7 or exactly 8, we will be getting as an amount of 5.5VPP per 1 USD raked and 85VPP per 1 Euro raked. The amount of VPPs awarded will then be evenly split among everybody who got dealt into the hand.
First up is BronzeStar, which is the level at which every players starts out. This level has no FPP multiplier bonus, which means you will get 1 Frequent Player point for every single VIP Player Point you accumulate. Most of the really good stuff will be either unlocked or prohibitively expensive FPP-wise in the VIP store while playing at this level, but you will still be able to spend your Frequent Player points on a wide variety of Poker Books, clothing items and also poker accessories including playing cards and dealer buttons.
The following step up the VIP club levels is the SilverStar level. To reach this level you will have to accumulate 750 VPP's in a single month. SilverStar is also where we see the introduction to the FPP multiplier effect, which basically means that your rate of accumulation of VPPs and FPPs will now differ. Remember, at BronzeStar you were collecting 1 FPP for every 1 VPP you gain: at SilverStar FPPs will come in 50% as fast, which means that you will be getting 1.5 FPPs for every 1 VPP you generate. SilverStar specific items include a special $50 VIP Reward Bonus (not cash) that you will have pay 5,000 FPPs to acquire and earn 350 VPPs to clear, a lot of clothing accessories and a plethora of electronic equipment and gift certificates for a lot of stores with locations all over the world, and all of this is on top of the things you had access to as a BronzeStar.
Next up is the GoldStar VIP level. All you have to do to become one is generate 3,000 VPPs in a month. Benefits you can expect for being a GoldStar include a 2x FPP multiplier, which basically means your earning rate of FPPs will increase by 100%! You will also have access in the VIP store to everything the BronzeStar and the SilverStar levels can, but you will also get access to a few GoldStar-specific items, including among many a 500 piece poker chip set and $320 and $530 buy-ins for online tourneys. Also available for GoldStars is a selection of PokerStars.com money clips, which are very useful aside from looking good.
And the last monthly VIP Level is PlatinumStar. Just earn 7,500 VPPs in any given month and this level is yours. Arguably the best benefit available to PlatinumStars is the 2.5x multiplier which makes it very easy to generate enough FPPs to buy everything in the store, and you will also have access to pretty much every non-cash item in the store. Every item that is available to the lesser VIP levels will be unlocked for PlatinumStars and aside from that you will also have exclusive goodies, including among many: a variety of cash bonuses going all the way up to $650 and a variety of big screen TVs. Generating FPPs to buy things in the store becomes incredibly easy at this level: meeting the requirements to maintain your level means that you will be earning at least 20,000 or so FPPs each and every single month.
The next VIP level is Supernova. Since its one of the yearly levels, to become a Supernova you would have to earn a minimum of 100,000 VIP Player Points between January 1st and December 31st of any given year. This will basically make you eligible for almost all of the PokerStars Bonus Code deals in the VIP store, including the $1500 and the $4000 bonuses which are exclusive to this level. These bonuses cost 100,000 and 250,000 FPPs respectively, and will require you to earn 10,500 and 25,000 VPPs respectively within 90 days to clear them. Of course, you can take these bonuses as many times as you want (assuming you have the required FPPs to do it) but can only clear 1 at a time. Hopefully you are starting to see how much money you will be able to make while a Supernova on Poker Stars.
And the biggest item of all, the Porsche Cayman S, becomes available to users of this level, but to get it you will have to spend 3,000,000 FPPs, so getting it while being purely a Supernova will be quite a stretch. If you ever want to reach this incredible status, make sure you brush up with PokerStars’ free poker training to get your game ready for the challenge.
Also available exclusively to Supernovas and above is the very popular PokerStars concierge service. To use it you would have to simply buy something with a total value greater than $500 and then mail the receipts to PokerStars, and then you will have the equivalent amount in FPPs deducted from your account, with the money you spent now deposited in your account. The amount of FPPs required will obviously vary depending on what you bought, and any q's you may have you should get in contact with the legendary PS customer support and they will give you the lowdown on it.
But that's definitely not all. If you are really dedicated, you should definitely try to reach the SNE VIP Level. It's the very best VIP player level on PS and requires 1,000,000 VPPs to reach, and will also make everything in the VIP store instantly available. It is also a yearly VIP level meaning it is good until the next February. In a nutshell, you just reached the top of the mountain if you attain Supernova Elite.
This level awards you 5 FPPs for every single VPP you earn, which means an amazing 400% increase. On the road to reach Supernova Elite however, PS has implemented a whole host of cash bonuses which will be available to you every time you cross a 100K VPP milestone. On your way you will encounter a ton of these bonuses plus others that you will be able to purchase, and the totals amount to very close to $100,000. Without a doubt, it is a very lucrative affair to get to SNE.
Each individual level also has access to Daily, Weekly and Monthly VIP tourneys using FPPs to buy-in; check the website or the PokerStars client for more details. And to help you make your way up the various VIP levels, PokerStars will be giving out various milestone bonuses that reward you for reaching various amounts of yearly VPPs. Further details are available on the site.
The PokerStars VIP program is considered by many to be the best loyalty program of all PC and Mac Poker sites. There is a lot of money just laying there for grabs in on PokerStars, and the more you play the more money you will be making. Also, the motivation you get when you reach the next VIP level should not be overlooked, as it will keep you focused on the grind. But with all this knowledge under your belt, and know for certain just how lucrative playing poker on PokerStars is, what are you waiting for? If you start playing today you will still be able to make PlatinumStar this month, and maybe even Supernova elite this year!
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