Hi,
I have just started using the Poker Stars school, has anyone taken any benefit from it, learnt or won anything from the School structure?
Hello and welcome to both CardsChat and to The PokerStar School. I also have recently signed up to
pokerstars school in middle of August.
Let me give you some tips on how to best utilize your poker school.
First, if you plan on making a first deposit, the pokerstars school offers a great $35 free cash + a few small extras when making a deposit of $20 or more. You will only be able to do one deposit bonus and there are several there that are offered.
There is something called the beginners bankroll challenge, I suggest you take full advantage of this, but when you get to the part where you must make a deposit to continue, email into the school support staff and make sure you get the $35 school deposit bonus instead of the bankroll challenge bonus. (This only matters if you plan to make a first deposit). This challenge will give you several $0.10 SnG tix, $0.50 SnG ticket and a bunch of school passes.
Visit all the promotion pages and look for buttons to push (twitter,etc.) to collect school passes or other bonuses, but only get as many school passes as you plan too use.. they expire in 30 days and you will be able to collect a lot of these passes by doing all the quizzes they have to offer. Visit the Scratch and Match game everyday and get some small prizes here too and a chance to win the big jackpot.
They have lots of great basic strategy articles and hand charts, if you are still trying to learn the basic TAG strategy which will be very helpful to beginners (You will also find these hand charts here at CC). Be sure to check out the videos, they have some great content such as watching coaching sessions at microstakes by TEAM pros. (I see you are fan of Lex Veldhuis, he is great person to watch and take notes from)
Use your school passes wisely, dont waste them.. they are a great way to practice playing in satellites and you can win some okay prizes. Also I suggest playing in the League, you should get a pass to play in the initiaon level. Here you can win T$ if you can finish in the top100 for the month and is another great practice for MTT.
As for myself, in my 6-7 weeks at the pokerstars school, I have won with my school passes around $10 in cashes from Augusts UnFold Turbo Freebuy events, I won the satellite for the $3.30 Tournament ticket, I won the $0.25 Spin n' GO sat 3 times and won about $1 from the spins, and I won the satellite to the Big Bang M.E. which I was able to finish in the top 100 for a $10 cash. These school satellites are very tough to beat, you will have to finish in the top 9 out of 600+ players, but it is very possible and very satisfying to win even tho the prize is lackluster.
I also play in the League initiation level. I finished in 8th place on the leaderboard and won a T$25 prize. Pokerstar School also offered me an extra T$20 to have my story published on the winners wall.
So yes, there is much advantage to the pokerstar school. Not only is the learning content very high quality and free to use, you will find that it is a great opportunity to build up a bankroll.
