I didn't know stake will launch poker lol I've played a bit and it's nice with good action. Holdem mostly 9 player tables up to 1$ blind and Omaha 6 players up to 50c, biggest tournament with 100$ buy in. I couldn't find what's the rake structure and how the poker will contribute to the VIP levels. Some poker promotions will be welcomed too.
I first read it here but also got an email today actually. Too bad I can't try it out yet because I still have a self exclusion running till Friday. Have a lot of stuff to do this week and didn't want to get distracted by playing, haha.
If I had known poker finally launches I would have loved to try it out though, I love omaha poker, mostly 5 or 6 card omaha and the hi/lo variants. Guess they don't have this yet. Well, I will have some patience and check it out in a couple of days.
Nice, I thought the birthday reward is fixed amount based on our VIP level but your story proves that what I thought is wrong.
Probably you get that much because of your recent crazy wager achievement, something like when you wager about half a million dollar in a week last month IIRC.
In my own experience, I've received the birthday bonus 2-3x and the amount were all the same ($25).
I guess you are getting closed to Diamond now, are you more than 50% now or less to Diamond?
Nah man, diamond is faaaaaaaaaaar away, I just got platinum 6 recently, after almost 4 years. Plat 6 required 10mil wager, I did it with 7mil because of sports 3x factor. Diamond though requires 15mil. If I go at the same pace this would mean I get diamond in 6 years, hahaha. In other words, more than unlikely to ever get there.