this week hasn't really been anything spectacular...

had a good session in cash games early on in the week to keep my spirits up and my BR in the black, but I lost most of it in my 180 Man SNG challenge...

I've set a new goal for myself... SILVERSTAR member...

I play $50NL and I figure the FPP/hand ratio to be 3.575456 hands/point....

so at 15hrs/week, counting my MT ratio, I play 118.58 hands/hr... this means I'll be playing roughly 64 hrs/month...

thats 7589 hands/month or 2122 FPP/month and once I get my silverstar status with the 50% bonus it'll be 3183 VPP...

which got me thinking... GOLD status it only 4k points and gives a 100% bonus... so once I clear silver, all I have to do is give it a little push at the end of the month and I can get goldmember where my 2122 FPP turns into 4244 VPP; easily maintaining the points I need...

am I missing something here?

Your FPP's are only converted from each one AFTER you gain the VIP status. So once you get 1500 VPP's, you become Silver, but you still have only 1500 FPP's. From then on until you reach 4000 VPP, each VPP you earn becomes 1.5 FPP's. Is that what you meant?



And the FPP's you earn do not count as BASE VPP's. You still need to earn 4000 VPP's per month to stay Gold, not 2000 (the bonus only counts so you can buy stuff, not to maintain VIP status).



Only real advantage to earning the bigger status quotas are the better items you can buy, like the iPod.