I was just complaining recently that there is some weird hypocrisy in that Caesars hosts see you as "not playing" if you stay at one of their properties and play on wsop.com instead of their casino.

This is despite the fact that an active player can generate thousands in rake for them during one stay.

I'm not sure if that will change, but something else related has changed.

Before, WSOP.com did "status matching". That is, if you earned various statuses on WSOP.com, they would match your Caesars Total Rewards status to it. This would occur at Platinum, Diamond, and Seven Stars. Alternately, you could "back match" your existing Total Rewards status on WSOP.com before you even play there. Basically you would get the higher of the two statuses, but you would have to request this.

WSOP.com has something called APPs. You are given an APP for each 50 cents you pay in rake at WSOP.com.

However, prior to now, you would not earn tier credits from WSOP.com play. So, for example, if you earned 300,000 APPs on WSOP.com, this would NOT affect your Total Rewards tier points or status at all, aside from being guaranteed to be at least Diamond.

Now it's different. There is no more matching. Instead, you earn 1 tier point for each APP you earn.

This means you can earn Total Rewards Seven Stars by simply raking $75,000 on WSOP.com, and you never have to play a single penny in Caesars casinos. (I'm sure the hosts will LOVE players like this (cough)... but that's a different story for a different time.)

Here are the details: http://www.wsop.com/promotions/trconnect-2015/nv/

Here is one weird part:

To become Seven Stars in Total Rewards, you need to earn 150,000 Tier Credits between January 1st 2015 and December 31st 2015. If you earn 120,000 APPs online and earn 30,000 Tier Credits offline then this will give you a total of 150,000 Total Rewards Tier Credits and you will becomes Seven Stars in Total Rewards. However, this will not make you a Seven Star on WSOP.com. For existing players to become Seven Stars on WSOP.com, you’ll need to earn 400,000 APPs exclusively on WSOP.com.
What?!

As usual, WSOP.com is confusing as all hell.

I think they're trying to say that they no longer match Seven Stars status to WSOP.com, which sucks. That gave me 30% rakeback instantly.

So what do I get matched to now as a Total Rewards Seven Stars player? Nothing? That would suck if true. I am going to e-mail Seth Palansky for clarification and report back.