This is the case here. Other requirements are different. All these tasks are complete nonsense.
I am disappointed to see that a Legend member who posted more than 1.2k times come with useless mentions just for the pleasure to type and to post without asking himself: "
...Will I really help the readers with something after doing this?..."
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...other requirements are different...": name them here...I repeat, only what you see inside the Exclusive Poker Challenge Reward window...
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...all these tasks are complete nonsense...": what kind of tasks? Because for sure here we are not talking about: "play 100 hands on cash tables to make 10 cents..."
First of all, this entire thread was about the Exclusive Poker Challenge Reward, if it can be done by playing micros. Not mainly, but only!
Second, while this promotion is valid, every month until you reach the value of 900$ paid in rake, you are effectively playing for a rake-back of something between 60-70% (like the Supernova Elite members back in the past). That translates into the following: put some grind and you are granted for sure with 540-650$ cash (depending on your chests values, if you are a winning player or not etc).
The fact that they choose to release the cash into different values during the entire challenge it's another discussion (you need to do it by keeping in mind that most of the money you are receiving come only on the final stages of the challenge). In other words don't count on those money as bankroll to "keep the fight on", just focus and give your A+ game during all the grinding sessions and after finishing it take it as an extra-cash help: if it's not all extra-profit (best scenario), at least it helped you to forget more easily the bad loosing sessions (I mean only as money lost that now were gained back, because you still need to analyze your game and learn from the mistakes you made).
Let's think to what the winning poker player at micros with a lot of experience, written books, currently very active (Nathan Williams aka BlackRain79) said:
"...Winning poker players at stakes like NL2, NL5 and NL10 can expect to make around $100 - $500 per month. Winning poker players at higher stakes like NL25, NL50 and NL100 can make significantly more though, between $750 and $2000 per month. Rakeback and bonuses will often add hundreds of dollars more...."
So, if you play 50k hands in 1 month at NL10, and you have an average win-rate of 8bb/100 (a very good one if you can keep it during an year), you win 400$.
A win-rate of 10bb/100 for 50k hands at NL5 will give you a profit of 250$ per month.
I don't believe that a potential prize of 540$ guaranteed for a medium grind volume at micros is something to be considered useless. For 50k hands, it's equivalent to an extra win-rate of over 20bb/100 at NL5 respectively over 11bb/100 at NL10!
Especially at micros, with a pool of players that have max. 1-2k $ as bankroll at these stakes (for sure less than 10% of them) and on average tens to hundreds of $.
I hope everything is more clear now for members really interested in doing it. When I post something, I hope that the viewer who is spending some precious time to read it will have the opportunity to gain some valuable information.
Ofcourse that sometimes we can have different opinions and perspectives and I will be glad to constructively debate any issue if the resulting discussion really can help somebody to improve his game / results.