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I still don't see the motivation. Making Nova is no easy task. PokerStars themselves have it in print that only 2-3% of their players will reach Nova status.

I know there are teams of players that play under the same account around the clock. Thats great, they will make Elite by February.

But for the rest of us (and by US, I mean the vast majority of players), making Nova within 6 months will be a tough task. Doing that could potentially open the doors to make 200k by a year... for what? a $700 kickback?

Since the legislation, a bunch of players have marathoned sessions to make Nova, and most barely did if at all. Do that all year, and you reach 400,000 points. Doesnt get you much extra at all.

The least Stars could have done was to award one or two smaller WSOP buy ins for reaching half a million VPPs. Or award one entry at 500k and the second at a million. But I digress. I never expeceted to achieve anything greater then 250k, and that was only if the incentive was good enough.

Also, don't equate a $10,000 WSOP buy-in with $10k in cash. Not for the obvious reason that not everyone wants to play in large land based multis. If you take this offer, Stars owns you. If however you buy yourself in and are fortunate/talented enought to get deep in the event, you could strike your own endorsement deal worth thousands itself.

Anyway, it was Stars who was advertising and promoting their great changes to the VIP progam for 2007 and I feel like they fell way short of expectations. I mean, for about 2-3 months there has been discussion about the upcoming changes to the freerolls. And they didnt change dick.

Well, congrats Bob on your quest for 1 million VPP's. You will be well rewarded if you get there, I don't think anyone really questions the value upon reaching that level.

However, I think less then 20 players will make this mark. I think many more will try and wind up overextending themselves by playing to high, too many tables or playing in bad games just for the sake of a VPP earn rate. I think there will be a short boom of good high limit games in the next 2 months and then the number and quality of games will drop off significantly as players step down to rebuild or the regular fish at those levels get swallowed up.

ALSO, lets not forget that we are 2.5 months into the new legislation. At the start of last year, there were tons of new players coming and going. The influx is still dropping and can potentially get even worse in 6 months when banks may enforce transactions or we lose Neteller or something along those lines. I don't doubt Pokerstars will remain open to US players or that regular hardcore players won't be able to get around funding issues, but it will really dent the good games and good tourneys.