How to Earn a Star on PokerStars.Net?
PokerStars is the largest online poker cardroom in the world, boasting five former World Series of Poker Main Event champions who have entered through their satellite events. With its downloadable poker client, you can play online with real or play money. Playing with real money will allow you access to the company's VIP program, which offers its members benefits that increase with each successive VIP level, designated graphically with 1 to 6 stars that are displayed in your avatar. Gaining a star is a arduous process often involving a lot of monetary investment.
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Instructions
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Enter a real money cash game or tournament from the PokerStars lobby to earn VIP Player Points (VPPs). In cash games, you are awarded VIP Player Points every time you are dealt into a hand, regardless of whether or not you win. The higher the rake of the hand, the more VPPs are awarded. In tournaments, you are awarded based on the buy-in of the tournament. (See Reference 1)
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Accumulate 750 VPPs in a month to earn your first star and a VIP ranking of SilverStar. This will take approximately 11 hours per week of playing $1/2 NL cash games, or 1 multi-table tournament per day with an average buy-in of $50.
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Continue earning additional VPPs to achieve more stars and higher VIP levels. For example, 3,000 VPPs per month will achieve a second additional star and a VIP ranking of GoldStar and 7,500 VPPs per month will achieve a third star and a VIP ranking of PlatinumStar. Continue earning VPPs to achieve the Supernova and Supernova Elite rankings. As you advance in VIP levels, you will earn VPPs at a faster rate, as a multiplier will be applied to the base amount of VPPs awared to you. Consult the PokerStars VIP program table for complete details.
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Tips & Warnings
Your monthly VPP counter resets after each month comes to an end. To maintain your VIP level, you must continue to earn the required VPPs in each successive month.
Playing poker for real money online is illegal in the United States, and PokerStars will neither accept your real money deposits nor allow you to play at a real money table if you are a US citizen or a foreign national at a computer within the boundaries of the United States.
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