Low end Supernovas looked over by new VIP program.

[ryanghall]

Also, why the hell didn't the freerolls go monthly? I thought the general consensus was that this was a good compromise. This is going to take up a chunk of my time again this year.

Can't we make it a $200K freeroll once a month and make Gold/Plat. actually have to earn their way in rather than playing in a satellite where you can probably fold your way to a seat?

Like have one big satellite for them where you give out x number of seats.

Ryan

[Hock_]

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You get $2,000 when you reach 200K. That's $1,200 extra cash (50k FPP worth $800 at 1.6c/FPP).
You get $3,000 when you reach 300K. That's extra $2,200. And so on.

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Where does it say this? I don't see it on either PStars' bonus page or its Supernova Elite page.

[mbpoker]

http://www.pokerstars.com/vip/supernova/

[bball904]

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but the only good freeroll (the Supernova freeroll) has been taken away!

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I disagree with this. The current Nova freeroll is not that great with over 500 entrants. Plus, I presume the prize structure for the new 50k will be more standard as opposed to the ridiculous $100 participation prize for folding for 2 hours. Making the money in this 50k tournament should mean something, 10th place will surely mean a whole lot more than it does now and play good enough to final table once or twice in the year and it becomes a very valuable addition.

[ryanghall]

Wait until you see how many people are in it *after* the 1st week. Then you might change your mind.

Ryan

[lunapark]

I was wondering if their web site is finished with all the updates. From their previous announcements it seemed that there were more than one extra incentive to reach 200K etc (they always used plural forms when talking about the new promotions).
The only change is the one time bonus. I feel like a jerk for convincing my friend to bust his balls to make supernova by year end, by telling thim that there would be a big improvement to the supernova program.

I know that it is very likely this is the only change, but I was hoping for some incentive that would definitely convince me to give 100% of my play to stars....(this one time bonus isnt it).

[suzzer99]

Sounds like I'm gonna have more fun sleeping through the first hour of the freerolls, then shoving 2 out of every 3 hands and generally wreaking havoc. Wheeee.

Also, it looks like I'll have to play about 22,222 $100 SNGs (as pretty much everyone believes the $225s+ are unprofitable). Time to get a new monitor and video card! Is there any way a NL cash player can make 1M VPPs?

[suzzer99]

I sure would like to see something like one of the big MTT packages for 500k and 2 for 750k. Lee, pleeeese?

[MicroBob]

Or even an EPT package which isn't as high-end as the others.

If I actually got to 1-million (which I won't) I might actually talk them into letting me exchange 1 of the big ones for 2 smaller EPT ones instead.

Doubt they would accomodate, but who knows. If not, I can spend my FPP's on them anyway.

GF and I want to go to France, Spain, Ireland.
We've been to Vegas.

Aussie Millions entry would be a good one too.

If I'm stuck with Bahamas, WSOP and Monte Carlo though I think I can live.

Again though, this is all just fantasy-land since I'm not going to make it anyway.

[LearnedfromTV]

hey ryan,

I'm kind of in your boat, got to 130k this year even though i only went fulltime in august, played more on other sites than i will next year, and played relatively more (slower-fpp-accruing) mtts than i will next year. So I feel like the sn elite is out of reach, but 300k/400k isn't and maybe even 500k or 750k isn't either.

It kind of sucks that the really big sn elite prize (the tournaments) doesn't accrue incrementally. I think it's clear that they don't expect very many sn elites, so something like only giving sn elites one big event but giving 300k a wsop prelim/wcoop and 500ks an ept would cost them a lot more $, since there will be like twenty sn elites and probably a couple hundred 500ks. SN elite is a bit of a phantom reward, because it's so hard to get, but it's not like low and middle novas get nothing, this is definitely better than before, granted you trade some freeroll equity but not nearly as much as you get back, and unlike freerolls the bonuses don't take any time.

I also hoped there weould be an FPP bonus bump between sn and sn elite, and yeah, an extra land based tourney bonus would be awesome. Still, it makes sense that every additional 100k is worth more; nova itself is based on this principle - your last 50k is harder to get and therefore worth more, etc.

So overall, I think this is a decent deal; even though it kinda sucks that it's distributed $1200/$2200/$3200/$4200/$6700/$25K+.

And I see your point about the 200k-300k range especially, because you get as much added equity ($3200 vs $3400) for vpps 300k-400k as for 0-300k; then it kind of flattens a bit and there's the huge bonus for 1mils. It's like three tiers, 0-300, 400-750, and sn elite. I think I'm going to aim for 400k as my base goal for that reason, and I can see wheresomeone aiming for 300k might be frustrated. If I end up playing less than I expect, I can see myself being frustrated by getting to 320k or soemthing and feeling like I just missed the bigger bonuses. Of course, getting to like 900k would suck even more.

It will be interesting to see how many sn elites there end up being.