Three stanzas from a PokerStars poem including news of a Stars Rewards revamp in Italy, dates for the Spring Championship of Online Poker, and a grudge heads-up encounter between Ben “Spraggy” Spragg and Parker “TonkaaaaP” Talbot.

In early February, to everyone except his family, Severin Rasset, Director of Poker Innovation and Operations, turned into a fire breathing dragon with sulfurous yellow eyes, and sloppy stalactite-slime hanging from the corners of his flesh enmeshed mouth after penning a blog post entitled  ‘Stars Rewards: MTT Points Updates.’

Rasset was the PokerStars higher-up given the noxious task of notifying his impoverished customers that the award-winning Stars Rewards system was about to change. The first step in that change would be to slash multi-table tournament (MTT) Rewards by 55% in a move that saw Rewards Points for scheduled tournaments reduce from 100 reward points for every $/€1 in tournament fees paid to 45.

Now for some slightly better news.