Black Member - what does that mean?

Black Member is our highest member status. The benefits of this status:

• Full access to all content and services at PokerStrategy.com - for life.
• The opportunity to attend our 'Black Member Events' - a variety of live events exclusively for Black Members.
• As an initial gesture of appreciation, every Black Member will receive a custom made black suit.

In order to reach Black Member status, you need to collect 500,000 StrategyPoints here at PokerStrategy.com.

 

Special VIP support for Black Members

As a Black Member, you enjoy unlimited lifetime access to all educational content and services at PokerStrategy.com. In addition to that, our VIP hosts are there to help whenever you have questions about our partner poker rooms or about PokerStrategy.com. You can also take advantage of our exclusive Black Member forum, where you can get in touch with other Black Members and where all of your questions will be answered as quickly as possible.

Your personal black suit

As a Black Member you will receive a professionally tailored black suit, which is custom made for you - it represents your membership in the exclusive Black Member club. This elegant and timeless suit is also ideal for other festivities you might attend in the future.

The Black Member Events

Black Members can participate in up to three Black Member Events each year, which they can choose from a selection of different events. The events we offer range from exclusive VIP parties and gourmet experiences in world class restaurants, to fun activities such as paintball and rafting. To ensure the greatest variety possible, we will continuously come up with new events and shape our offers according to the wishes and feedback of our Black Members.

PokerStrategy.com covers all costs involved in participating in these events.

Overview of the Black Member Events that are currently offered

Participation in Black Member Events

Only Black Members can take part in these special events.

This is how it works:

• There are 3 qualification periods per year, each stretching over 4 months. They run from January to April, from May to August and from September to December.
• If a Black Member earns at least 33,000 StrategyPoints in a given qualification period, he receives an event ticket.
• If a Black Member earns 100,000 StrategyPoints in a given qualification period, the Black Members also receives a travel expense token in addition to the event ticket.
• If a member reaches Black Members status, he automatically receives the event ticket for the qualification period in which he became a Black Member. The regular conditions apply for the travel expense token.
• If a Black Member earns less than 33,000 StrategyPoints in a given qualification period, the collected points are transferred to the next qualification period. This does not apply to the first qualification period of a new Black Member, since he will receive a ticket for this qualification period right away.

If you have earned an event ticket, you can book one of the offered events at any time. Please go to the event overview to make a fixed booking. You can also find all important details about each event in the event overview. A tailor is attending at least one event in each qualification period to take the measurements of new Black Members for their custom made Black Member suit.

You can use your travel expense token for any one of the events you attend. If you choose to use it, you will receive $600 in your PokerStrategy.com account before the event, which you can cash out at Moneybookers for example.

Have a look at the event overview

Important information about the Black Member Events

• You can only earn one event ticket and one travel expense token per qualification period.
• Event tickets are valid for 12 months after the end of the qualification period in which they were earned.
• Event tickets and travel expense tokens are not transferable.
• The number of participants varies for each event and may be limited. Keep in mind: First come, first serve.

Reimbursement for long distance travel

If you redeem a travel expense token along with your event ticket, you will receive another $300 towards your travel expenses if one of the following criteria is met:

1. The distance between your local airport and the city hosting the event closest to your home is more than 3,000 km. Please bring your flight ticket to the event in order to confirm this. Your local airport is the airport closest to your current place of residence, not the airport of your current whereabouts. This means that if you live in Vienna for example, and the event takes place in Berlin, you will not receive any reimbursement for long distance travel if you happen to be in Las Vegas at the time and fly to Berlin from there.
2. In order to attend the event closest to your home, you need to obtain a visa for which you were required to pay a fee. Please bring the relevant receipts to the event.

Questions and answers

If you have any more questions about the Black Member status itself, you can contact our customer support team at any time. You can also ask questions and give feedback in our feedback forum.

Go to the feedback forum

Special qualification procedure until the end of April 2011

Black Members receive an event ticket for the qualification period running until the end of April 2011 if they meet one of the following requirements:

1. 25,000 StrategyPoints for the event ticket and 75,000 StrategyPoints for the travel expense ticket collected between November 2010 - January 2011
2. 33,000 StrategyPoints for the event ticket and 100,000 StrategyPoints for the travel expense token collected between January 2011 – April 2011