Never played Stars, just how good are FPPs?

[CharlieDontSurf]

The only main negative to the Stars system is that it somewhat
enslaves you to them.

I.E. You win $50,000 and decide your going to play poker for a living online at 100NL 6Max.

If you sign up at FTP you get a $600 deposit bonus and you immediatly start earning 27% rakeback, minus fees, on the rake you pay.

At Stars you sign up and I believe get a 100% deposit bonus.
You earn FPP but not until say 2-3 months later do u earn the higher percentage of rakeback as a Supernova. If you can't multi table then it may take longer

Also...say you decide to take a 3 month vacation free of poker.

You come back to FTP and immediatly get you 27% rakeback starting from day 1.

Stars you start the process all over again.

If Stars removed the $$ bonuses you could buy with FPP then I'd say Stars would drop more because there is a big difference between getting cash in your account and having to sell [censored] you got for free on ebay.