I wish I lived in the UK

[verstehen]

What. The. fuck. Pokerstars... free supernova status for anyone in the UK earning 7500 VPPs this month

http://www.pokerstars.com/uk/poker/promotions/may-special/

This is real, it was confirmed on 2p2.

[Tony]

He he, yep, it's true    I guess they must be short of UK customers, although I don't know why this would be the case.  PokerStars regularly advertise on terrestrial TV over here these days, as well as Full Tilt and PKR.

From my point of view this is just fantastic, since on June 3rd I'll be automatically gifted 80k VPPs which will take me to SN status with room to spare.  It would have taken me another 4 months at least otherwise.  Finally I can have a crack at those big bonuses, can't wait...

[verstehen]

Well you better go donk some of it off to us poor suckers living in north america... 

EDIT: I can't tell if this is really terrible or a brilliant business move. Given that SN is 6 solid months of grind for someone like me playing SSNL, I don't really like it. On the other hand maybe it injects a lot of money into the poker economy with all those FPPs getting cashed in for bonuses and tournament tickets?

[verstehen]

Sadly I think this post pretty much sums it up:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=10423985&postcount=11

More 24-tabling 15/12s to fill up stars, yay.