Pokerstars Revamps Vip Club

By Brian Cullingworth, Last updated Sep 16, 2016

To be replaced with combined rewards programme in 2017

PokerStars contacted customers late last week to notify planned changes to their VIP Club in 2017.
The most significant change is that of a combined rewards programme for poker, casino and sportsbook moving away from the current format that rewards according to monthly and annual statuses.
The company said changes to the VIP club made at the beginning of this year had delivered the improvements it had hoped for, leading to a healthier poker ecology that enjoyed more players seeing a flop, more deposits from recreational players and an increase in new players with expanding playing time.
The revised VIP Club is an extension of that strategy, which will now reward players for their activity across a range of PokerStars products.
The company plans to implement a broader reward system that is not based solely on how many poker hands are played and, which at some stage in 2017, will switch from being reset on a monthly basis to one that it personalised to players' recent gaming activity or profile.
In addition, PokerStars Supernova annual status will become a monthly status from January 1 2017, until the new rewards programme is launched.
More information on the proposed rewards system can be accessed here: https://www.pokerstars.com/en/blog/corporate_blog/2016/2017-vip-club-changes-163197.shtml

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Brian Cullingworth

Infopowa news was a staple of Casinomeister’s news from 2000 until 2019. Brian Cullingworth was the main writer, contributor, and was one of the most knowledgeable persons I have ever known involved in the online casino industry.

We first met in January 2001 at the ICE in London where I observed him going booth to booth interviewing online casino, software, and licensing jurisdiction representatives. Brian was also heavily involved with our forum as “Jetset“, he was involved as an informal consultant to eCOGRA, the OPA, and was a player advocate who assisted countless aggrieved players with his connections to industry folks. He also published “Casino Cautions” via Infopowa news for quite a number of years. These can be found in our news archives.

His passing in February 2019 was a dark day for us. He will be forever missed.


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