PokerStars January 2010 VIP Store Sale

Popular online poker site PokerStars.com announced today a special promotion that will allow players to save 15-50% on merchandise through their VIP store. The promotion will run from January 12-31 with a different product offered at a discount each day. The catch is while PokerStars has announced what the 20 products will be, each only becomes available with its price listed on the day in which it is discounted.

The 20 Store Items that will be offered for sale are:

• Men’s Long sleeve two-tone T-shirt (Green)
• Scarf & Beanie
• Spade Design Hooded Sweatshirt
• Daniel Negreanu ‘More Hold’em Wisdom for all Players’ book
• iPod Touch 32GB
(available for players in EU, US, CA & AU)
• iPod Nano 8GB
(available for players in EU, US, CA & AU)
• Spade Stress Toy
• WorldEventTickets worth $200
• Limited Edition PokerStars watch
• Sundog Polarised Sunglasses
• Mini Chip Set
• Sunday Hundred Grand ticket worth $11
• Step 1 Ticket worth $7.50
• Step 2 Ticket worth $27
• PokerStars Sunday Million Ticket worth $215
• PokerStars Sunday Ticket worth $530
• $50 VIP Reward Bonus (Not Cash)
• $285 VIP Reward Bonus (Not Cash)
• $650 VIP Reward Bonus (Not Cash)
• $1500 VIP Reward Bonus (Not Cash)

For those not familiar with PokerStars VIP program, it is their equivalent of Rakeback. A complete break down of this program on our page PokerStars rakeback shows the best value on the list is the $215.00 tournament tickets at the full FPP pricing. This will most certainly be the product to look at when it goes on sale.

The normal cost of a $215 tournament ticket is 13,500. As we know from their announcement it will be discounted at least 15%. At a minimum price of 11,475 FPP, when using this each FPP is worth at least 1.87 cents ($215/11,475). Using our calculations from our PokerStars rakeback page we’ll see under this calculation Platinum Stars earn 31.8% to 34.7% rakeback and SuperNovas earn 44.9% to 49% rakeback.

Of course other items might be discounted more, but how many Spade Stress Toys does a person need. Our strong suggestion would be to unload all your FPP during this promo on the tournament tickets. If you don’t already have a PokerStars account you can still benefit as PokerStars will offer you a 100% up to $600 sign up bonus, full details from the PokerStars.com website.