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I guess I will just go for Platinum this year, because I will still play at Full Tilt as well.

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I keep hearing people talk about getting maximum value out of their FPP's by using them for SnG entries of some kind. I've searched, and can't seem to come up with what they are referring to.

Anyone have any more details on what folks are doing, and in particular, why this is so heavily favored compared to the cash bonuses?

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they're talking about sng satellites to the sunday million. they are 10 person sats for 5400 fpps each, and the top 4 make the "money" and get an entry into the sunday million, but what a lot of people do is unregister for the tourney and take the 215 $T, which can be used in any tourney or sng. if you can make more than 40% ITM theyre a better return, but obviously the time invested counts for something as well, so thats up to you whether its worth it or not.

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they're talking about sng satellites to the sunday million. they are 10 person sats for 5400 fpps each, and the top 4 make the "money" and get an entry into the sunday million, but what a lot of people do is unregister for the tourney and take the 215 $T, which can be used in any tourney or sng. if you can make more than 40% ITM theyre a better return, but obviously the time invested counts for something as well, so thats up to you whether its worth it or not.

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actually i was messing with the math of this today.

100,000fpps for a $1500 cash bonus @ supernova.

u get 18.5 5400fpps sat entries for 100,000fpps

winning 7 seats gets u $1505. thats only a 38% success rate. (7/18.5)

with 4 outta 10 getting seats (40%), u need to be just a break even player to win enough to justify not taking the cash bonus and trying for more.

i'm 8 for 12 in these sats, so unless i owe my bookie $1500 or he's breaking bones, i'm not taking the cash bonus.

as for the time- they are turbos. ~30 min. knock one out while watching an ALF rerun.

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i never understood the logic behind the satellites. why not just give us the money and save us the variance? competing for rakeback seems a bit silly. let us buy the tournament tickets and sell them.

am i missing some super duper obvious concept?

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yes, that Stars doesn't and won't do rakeback.

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On sites that do rakeback can anyone get it or do you only get it if you sign up via a special offer of some kind?

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i never understood the logic behind the satellites. why not just give us the money and save us the variance? competing for rakeback seems a bit silly. let us buy the tournament tickets and sell them.

am i missing some super duper obvious concept?

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You can buy tickets to the Sunday Million with FPPs. I believe tickets to the $215's are 13,500 FPP. Just check the FPP store. I'm not sure if you can sell the tickets though.

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You can't sell or transfer them.