Empire VIP: Score one for the Zoo!

[Poker blog]

Empire has finally announced its formula for earning points for its VIP Club.

Why they couldn't tell us before, I don't know, as it isn't very complicated.

It is, however, strange (as you might expect). It is the square root of raked hands. If you're a VIP member already, then double it.

How bizarre. If that is so, then it would seem to encourage table hopping.

For SnGs, every $2 in rake gets 1 vip point.
For multitable tourneys, every $1 in rake gets 1 vip point.

Square root is just such a dumb formula. 9 raked hands would get 3 points, but to get two more points, you'd have to play 16 more hands. Dumb.

[slavic]

So to become a VIP member you have to play

25,000,000 raked hands. Playing all day I can just clip 3000 hands a day so that would be a minimum of 22 years of play.

[Losing all]

You could simply play 10,000 10+1 sng's.. the horror, the horror

[slavic]

yes that would only take me 55 days or so playing 4 tables 8 hours a day.

[Nottom]

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It is, however, strange (as you might expect). It is the square root of raked hands. If you're a VIP member already, then double it.


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Over what time frame? Per session? Per Day? All I know if that I've accumulated over 1000 points in the last month and know I haven't played 1,000,000 raked hands in that time period (or even 250,000 since I am a VIP).

Where did ou find this info? Is it on their site?

[slavic]

VIP formula

[fluff]

This has to be the only rewards program in the world that penalizes playing more. Truly brilliant!

[Wayne]

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This has to be the only rewards program in the world that penalizes playing more. Truly brilliant!

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From the site:
"EPoints are calculated and updated once a day"

This rewards someone who plays more days. 100 hands/day for 10 days gets the same points as 10,000 hands in a single day.

[guppy]

No, the square root is done once per day.

If you played 400 hands/day that would be 20 points/day, for 250 days or about 8 months. Playing 1000 hands/day would cut that down to 5 months of play.

[Alobar]

wow, talk about retarded