Pokerstars VIP question (nova related)

[m bozeman]

Very slighly better picture, but not very noticeable. I've heard averages of plasma t.v.s having 30k hours of life, while LCD's have 50-70k hours life.

[terrellk11]

30k hours is like 5 years of life if you're running it 24 hours a day. Even a sicko that watches 6 hours of TV a day is going to get 20 years out of that, by which time it will be so out of date you'll be glad it finally gave in.

[MicroBob]

And I would imagine that 30k hours is an 'average' isn't it?

If you aren't constantly turning it on and off or something I expect that should add life to it.

[Bluffinator]

I first bought a 50 inch samsong plasma. I personally didnt like it because my living room isnt huge and you are suppost to sit 10 feet away from a plasma that big. also if u didnt sit directly infront of it, it wasnt that good of picture. So i took it back and got a 50 Inch samsong DLP. I love it, looks good from all angles and i actually think the picture is brighter. I have it hooked up using HDMI cables so the picture is super clear on high def. also movies on an up-converting DVD player rule.

[APXG]

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the bonuses at 200k and 300k have good value?

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According to the site, the bonuses are 50k FPPs each. Under Supernova, that's like 15kish VPPs(base FPPs) for each bonus regardless of the cash value. For the $2,000 thats around 25 FPPs per dollar.

The two best at least semi-cashliquid values just from a quick glance appear to be the Sunday Million buy-ins and the Nieman Marcus/Onecall giftcards. Sunday Million and WCOOP buy-ins can be had at lesser value with W/T$ most of the time. These are all around 60 FPPs per dollar.

With this valuation of an FPP in mind, the Cayman and DB9 can be priced at $50kish and 85kish respectively, which is way below market price. Options, tax, import tariffs if you're outside USA are all additional as I understand, which probably brings their value closer to the other items offered, not to mention their lack of availability to lesser volume players and their lack of liquidity.

[MicroBob]

Most of us just look at it as spending $800 worth of FPP's (50k FPP's at 1.6 cents per FPP) to get $2k or $3k at each milestone.


Just subtract $800 from each milestone amount to get the 'true' value.
You get $1200 at 200k VPP's.
$2200 at 300k VPP's.
$3300 at 400k VPP's and so forth.