Changing Currency... And Grammar!
Apparently I have been writing StarCoins wrong, they're called StarsCoin! Yes, you heard it right that is "Stars" coin, not "StarCoin" which I think sounds better, because that extra S is a little bit more of a mouthful imo.
But wait! That's not it! Pokerstars has also decided that grammer is not needed and that StarsCoins are super special and plurals don't need S's! More then 1 StarsCoin has no S! Coins contain S's when there is more then one of them, but not these special StarsCoin! They're like the word Sheep, singular is the same as plural!
Before the Amaya buyout I'm sure that I would have assumed that this was some kinda mistake but nowadays I think that they might have had a special meeting about this and decided that StarsCoins had too many S's or something and therefore decided that they could override grammar.
How to Convert Your FPPs
So if you guys have FPPs, you should convert them into money or spend them in the VIP Shop before this happens if you don't want to lose out.
As explained here, the best way to convert FPPs into real money is to play 235 FPP Satellites into the Sunday Storm. This is the best option to do if you are not Supernova+ spending 100k FPPs on the $1600 cash bonus.
The 235 FPP Satellites can be found on the main MTT lobby, they run later in the week closer to Sunday though. These are 6 man tournaments, and 2 players will get a ticket. Once you win more then one ticket, the ones after that will turn into Tournament Dollars (T$) and it is this that you can convert into real money. The entry is $11, so you will be getting 11 $T per win after the first.
I'm not 100% sure if you can convert the first satellite into T$ too, you used to be able to by unregistering to the Sunday Storm, but from what I heard last it is unlikely as PokerStars has changed this policy.
The 235 FPP Satellites can be found on the main MTT lobby, they run later in the week closer to Sunday though. These are 6 man tournaments, and 2 players will get a ticket. Once you win more then one ticket, the ones after that will turn into Tournament Dollars (T$) and it is this that you can convert into real money. The entry is $11, so you will be getting 11 $T per win after the first.
I'm not 100% sure if you can convert the first satellite into T$ too, you used to be able to by unregistering to the Sunday Storm, but from what I heard last it is unlikely as PokerStars has changed this policy.
You can sell your T$ on this website, or get a better deal at the 2p2 Forum by posting and then getting a message and then following the instructions...
Anyways, this is still better value then just converting your FPPs by buying the cash rebates. Its annoying that you cant change them straight away, but its worth the time!
More Kicks in the Teeth...
Quite a lot of things has happened since my last post and I have a habit of writing the longest posts, so here is a TL DR summary;
9th Dec - Negreanu officially writes his blog about the changes, in summary he says that the changes should have happened earlier but were delayed by a year, communication should have been better, and that the strikes showed Amaya better number of cashouts to deposit ratios (no proof tho)
9th Dec - Pokerstars announce 4 one million dollar freerolls to replace the Supernova freerolls in 2016 and for some reason decides to use that to link the VIP changes controversy spinning it as a good thing for everyone.
10th Dec - A bunch of players wear T-shirts against the VIP changes at EPT Prague, Daniel Dvoress is interviewed about the situation.
13th Dec - Pokerstars Lee Jones responds to VIP changes via Pokernews. He repeats yet again that the changes are needed, that the strike was good for them, and that he is sorry about the bad communication and that they need to improve.
14th Dec - Pokerstars Matthew on 2p2 forum writes a damning post insisting that communication between Pokerstars and the players has been adaquete about the Supernova Elite program, using various quotes out of context relighting the issue once more when the dust was settling.
It is the most amazing post because it basically contradicted what Lee Jones had said! It was as if they had not seen the interview or communicated with each other at all. His was an apology that the communication wasn't good enough and trying to build back the bridges with the players, and this post was basically taking everything back and insisting that communication was good enough! Fuck that apology!
Amaya stocks has been on a bit of a downswing lately, and had a sharp fall that coincided with their Pokerstars VIP changes. It will be interesting if their stocks continue to decline in 2016 (which would probably mean more bad news for players). Seems like they're gambling on re-entry into the USA to send it back up! Only time will tell...
It does seem my posts are quite negative recently. Unfortunately this is the state of the poker world these days. The fact that Pokerstars is a monopoly means we have no alternative, since its rivals are just way too small. I will be doing some more positive posts later on, I'm challenging myself to post once a week.
Anyways, since I think Pokerstars is in need of some grammar lessons, here's Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington to help you out!
Anyways, this is still better value then just converting your FPPs by buying the cash rebates. Its annoying that you cant change them straight away, but its worth the time!
More Kicks in the Teeth...
Quite a lot of things has happened since my last post and I have a habit of writing the longest posts, so here is a TL DR summary;
9th Dec - Negreanu officially writes his blog about the changes, in summary he says that the changes should have happened earlier but were delayed by a year, communication should have been better, and that the strikes showed Amaya better number of cashouts to deposit ratios (no proof tho)
9th Dec - Pokerstars announce 4 one million dollar freerolls to replace the Supernova freerolls in 2016 and for some reason decides to use that to link the VIP changes controversy spinning it as a good thing for everyone.
10th Dec - A bunch of players wear T-shirts against the VIP changes at EPT Prague, Daniel Dvoress is interviewed about the situation.
13th Dec - Pokerstars Lee Jones responds to VIP changes via Pokernews. He repeats yet again that the changes are needed, that the strike was good for them, and that he is sorry about the bad communication and that they need to improve.
14th Dec - Pokerstars Matthew on 2p2 forum writes a damning post insisting that communication between Pokerstars and the players has been adaquete about the Supernova Elite program, using various quotes out of context relighting the issue once more when the dust was settling.
It is the most amazing post because it basically contradicted what Lee Jones had said! It was as if they had not seen the interview or communicated with each other at all. His was an apology that the communication wasn't good enough and trying to build back the bridges with the players, and this post was basically taking everything back and insisting that communication was good enough! Fuck that apology!
Amaya stocks has been on a bit of a downswing lately, and had a sharp fall that coincided with their Pokerstars VIP changes. It will be interesting if their stocks continue to decline in 2016 (which would probably mean more bad news for players). Seems like they're gambling on re-entry into the USA to send it back up! Only time will tell...
It does seem my posts are quite negative recently. Unfortunately this is the state of the poker world these days. The fact that Pokerstars is a monopoly means we have no alternative, since its rivals are just way too small. I will be doing some more positive posts later on, I'm challenging myself to post once a week.
Anyways, since I think Pokerstars is in need of some grammar lessons, here's Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington to help you out!
Just to let you know - you can indeed convert the first satellite into T$ too by unregistering
ReplyDeleteYep! I wasn't too sure if this still existed because there was a time when Pokerstars changed their policy and didn't allow the unregging, but they went back on it!
DeleteNow in 2016 I'm not sure that they even have the satellites anymore, but the VIP store has the same value whatever your status is now so $T is probably redundant now.