Stars VIP Wild speculation

[Tenacious A]

One of my 2008 New Year’s Resolutions is going to be to pay a lot more rake to Stars. But, in order to do that I need to be able to play more than 12 cash game tables at a time. I’ve read posts stating that Full Tilt has given certain players the ability to play more than the normal max of 12. Would it be possible for Stars to give us the opportunity to play up to 20 tables? I am very interested in paying 75% more rake…come on Stars, it’ll be funny.

One software upgrade that would dramatically speed up multi-tabling and make it fairly easy to 20-table would be to fix the auto-rebuy feature to give players the option to update their stack after every hand to the max buy-in without having to click any buttons. Short stackers and guys who don’t care wouldn’t have to opt in, but it would speed things up considerably for those of us who want to have a full stack at all times. It’s so frustrating to have to click 4 buttons in order to top off my stack while I have pending action at several other tables. The same is true for when you first sit down at a cash table. I’d like to have the option of an auto max buy-in without having to click through a series of oks.

As a cash game player, I don’t really like committing a few hours every Saturday (okay, truthfully it’s more like a few minutes) playing in the Supernova freeroll. I would welcome the ability to do an extra $100 bonus each month as Scottyy suggested. The drawing/showdown tournament ideas also would be better from a time committment perspective. Or what if players had the option of working off a $100 bonus every month or getting a must play ticket to one $215 Sunday Million every other month?

If the VIP tournies remain I’d like to see the satellites taken away that allow Gold and Platinum the opportunity to satellite into the Supernova freeroll. The $200k per month that is earmarked for the Supernova freeroll is great, but it’s not as great a benefit to Supernovas if Golds and Platinums are eating up chunks of the prize pool every week. I’d prefer the freerolls to be bigger and be once a month, perhaps on the same day as the monthly $100k freeroll. If the current monthly $200k Supernova freeroll money was divided into a $100k monthly freeroll open to Supernovas only and the other $100k was somehow divided up via bonuses or other options more suitable for cash and SNG players I think that would be awesome.

If I make a run at Elite next year, I can see the run between 500k and 1M VPPs being pretty painful and I've seen several posts in this thread about this. It would be nice to see the milestone bonuses restructured so that bonuses are added for every 100k hands between 500k and 1M. I’d be fine with Stars increasing the playthrough for the bonuses slightly to help pay for added bonuses.