Play money. Just trying to understand...

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Maybe there is a reasonable explanation, but I just can find it.

Why would someone spend his real money buying play money in pokerstars?

It's just a nonsense and dumb thing or I just can't see the light? :confused:
 
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If you're in a jurisdiction where you can play real money poker on pokerstars, spending that money on play money chips is just as dumb as it sounds. Maybe maybe very small maybe it's not quite as dumb to do that in the Us, but you'd be better off putting the money on ACR, Boavda, etc and/or just playing the pokerstars play money games with the free chips that they give you.
 
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hi!!

Maybe there is a reasonable explanation, but I just can find it.

Why would someone spend his real money buying play money in Pokerstars?

It's just a nonsense and dumb thing or I just can't see the light? :confused:

I not really understand the slogan seems to me that you do not agree with playing for real money ?:confused:
 
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I love PS , but there is no way in hell I would pay for play $$ chips, I'ts crazy.
More power to em tho if they can make $ on this , I say go for it.
 
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I not really understand the slogan seems to me that you do not agree with playing for real money ?:confused:

No. What I don't understand is why people spend his money buying play money to use it in games without any prize. You can take 1000 chips to play the games for free in Pokerstars. If you lose it, you can replace then anytime.

If you have the cash, why someone don´t use it in real money tables? It's insane to me.
 
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I just did a quick search. You cannot convert any amount for real money. Now PS does offer tournaments for real money ysing play money i believe. but im in the usa so i cant confirm that.
 
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i always wondered the same thing... just dont get it, imagine is more for countries like us, or portugal.. where its illegal toy play with real money
 
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If there is a prize it makes sense to spend some money to participate at the game there are players who buy chips and play with not real money that its weird and the most weird there is illegal to play with real money at some countries noooo why????
 
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Well, I took a look in the big stakes play money games in PS and half of the players are american.

They really can't play for real money in PS, but could do it in Bovada or ACR. Still weird...

But there was others players without any restriction in that rooms.

Maybe this people just wanna think they are not playing for money, just for fun. So, they are not gambling, wish is kind of immoral for some people. I think this could be a theory...
 
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Just because it is possible for Americans to play on Bovada/ACR does not necessarily make it legal. Those sites are unregulated. There is no player recourse if a player gets scammed. Also, because many Americans believe online poker is outright illegal in the US (not counting those certain states that have recently legalized/regulated it), many American poker players aren't aware that Bovada/ACR/etc is even an option. But they are aware of PS. Therefore they play for play money on PS. And certain players actually pay for play chips. I don't get it. We don't get it. But as the adage goes, the customer is always right, and if the customer wants to pay real money for fake chips, then PS as a business will certainly provide that as an offer.
 
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I don't see any sense in this either!!
 
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I would not do this! Maybe they do it for exercise!
 
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Not that I think it is a good idea, but people may want to more quickly be able to play at the higher stakes, where the players may take the game a little more seriously. My experience playing the lowest fixed limit stakes on Play$ PokerStars was educational, but no one took it seriously. With regards to raising pre-flop, there was anywhere from a slight aversion to an outright derision. I was told by many players that raising pre-flop takes the fun out of the game and that it is poor strategy. I was frequently able to clear out the majority of a full-ring table, simply by raising. Everyone would get up and go to another table. As I moved up in stakes, the play actually got better, and the players complained less. The same was true for the SNGs. The cheapest ones cost the maximum amount of chips that can be acquired for free. In those, it was almost guaranteed that the table would be short-handed within fifteen minutes, because many players simply shove the first hand, lose, then go reload their account for free.As with the fixed limit tables, the play did get better, as I moved up in stakes. There are also certain events that only people with a ton of chips can get into. There is a billion-chip something-or-another. Play$ chips are super cheap to buy. Maybe people simply enjoy the convenience of not having to wait an hour to reload, every time they bust. It is the same reason that Candy Crush was so successful, except that it happens to be poker. Lastly, I don't know how often it happens, but there was a player who was able to satellite into the NBC Heads-up Poker Championship via a wsop.com play$ event. With more chips, it could be easier to buy-in to such an event.
 
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I got super drunk one night and played nutbar with my 600 million and lost it all. In 3 weeks I went from 1k to 100 million after that lol. You don't need to buy them trust me.
 
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I rather play in freeroll than in play money.Too many donkfest also.
 
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Well, I did something like that once. I went from 1000 to 40000 very fast. I was a little tired and dont wanna play seriously. Then I decided to play spin and go till finish all the play money. So I went to 100.000 in 30 minutes. Then I lost everything in ten minutes. LOL . It was fun after all ! : D
 
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I didn't buy play money, but I play sometimes what I can't afford in real money. There are many American players who may be buy play money as they can't play real.
 
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If you do not understand playing real money should not play . I 've been wanting to become professional and only be able to this studying hard and playing real money.
 
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Maybe one who wants to show his friends how many chips he got from loosers in the weekend!
 
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Why buy play money when you can pay just to be on Club WPT?
 
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To get to the billionares club! Hahaha
 
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It's called free market economy. Anything that sells, or somehow makes profit goes. Even play money.
 
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