Although other factors contribute to your profile, the biggest is whether you are a break-even player, net depositor , or net withdrawer.

PokerStars chest rewards are not always cash. Instead, your rewards may be any combination of:. Although PokerStars claim to use your player profile to customize your rewards to your preferences, plenty of PokerStars cash game players have complained about receiving tournament tickets.

StarsCoins can be exchanged in the PokerStars Rewards Store for cash, tournament tickets, or various PokerStars apparel and paraphernalia.

Learn more about how to get the most from your Stars Coins in the maximizing your PokerStars rakeback section of our PokerStars review.

To move up to the next chest level, you must earn 10 chests of the same type over a day rolling window. However, the increase in average rakeback between PokerStars chests is minimal.

To remain at the current level, you need to open just 1 chest during the day window. This randomized reward, combined with the animations for opening PokerStars chests are obviously designed to attract gamblers and be as addictive as possible.

Because we use the average weighted value of each chest to calculate your expected PokerStars rakeback rewards, your actual Poker Stars rakeback will be signficantly higher or lower due to the variation in rewards chest values.

In the long run, your actual PokerStars rakeback will be very close to the amounts we have calculated. Each time you open a Stars Rewards chest, you often earn bonus points towards your next chest.

Due to a lack of information, we have had to estimate their average weigthed value. However, bonus points are an insignificant contributor to the PokerStars rakeback calculation.

It is difficult to provide each player with an accurate rakeback calculation because your PokerStars rakeback is entirely dependent on your player profile.

Players frequently see the cost of their PokerStars chests increase tremendously sometimes permanently, and other times just for a chest or two.

One of the biggest mistakes players make when calculating their own rakeback is averaging the rakeback from each chest.

For example, let's assume you have earned 8 chests during a day window:. You might think your average rakeback was a measly 7.

However, it's actually just 5. The reason you cannot average the rakeback of each chest is that it took far longer to earn the higher cost chest.

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Although we have attempted to summarize the PokerStars chests rakeback in a table , there are often chest costs between those shown in the table, and the cost for each chest will often fluctuate for each player.

That is, if you are a net depositor, your actual PokerStars rakeback rewards will likely be somewhere between the "Best" and "Typical" cases.

Likewise, net withdrawers will likely receive rakeback rewards between the "Typical" and "Worst" values. Only the most extreme net depositors and net withdrawers will receive the average rakeback rewards shown in the table for the "Best" and "Worst" combinations.

Net withdrawers AKA "winners" will earn as little as 2. You may have seen similar analyses on other poker websites and noticed that our equivalent rakeback numbers are slightly higher.

This is because our analysis is far more comprehensive and includes many of the factors that most others leave out freeroll tickets and bonus reward points.

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