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Zoom-style lobby would reduce the cost to Pokerstars of detecting collusion.
It is an advantage of a Zoom-style lobby that Pokerstars would waste less time (money/resources) on effort to detect/prevent collusion.
This is because SpinWiz enables unscrupulous individuals to collude to sit together ATM and Pokerstars has to waste more resources trying to detect that potential collusion or else face the reputational damage when the collusion is discovered by others. I suspect in such a scenario the other SpinWiz users may well be more likely to discover the collusion than Pokerstars because SpinWiz users have access to the Spinwiz user list and Pokerstars doesn't.
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Zoom-style lobby would launch with an associated ban on any third-party software group-seating functionality and would programmatically enforce that ban to reduce Pokerstars costs.
In a Zoom-style lobby one of the specific intents going forward would be to up-front ban and programmatically deliberately prevent third party software from affecting the queue by, for example, having a 30 minute wait before being able to re-enter the pool after leaving the pool to prevent a player from playing one game, leaving, re-entering based on a Spinwiz-like queue.
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$60 Spins take between 7 and 40 seconds to launch now.
1. In Zoom cash, pools are smaller in higher stakes than smaller stakes and you definitely need a certain minimum number of players to sustain a Zoom pool. Whether you would have that in $60 spins no-one would know until Zoom-style was launched but Pokerstars would have the player data to model the likely experience now.
2. With cash Zoom, lower stakes were introduced first to test pool viability and then gradually higher stakes were launched as the format gained in popularity. Same could be done for Zoom Spin&Go's.
3. With Zoom-style you would enter the pool not just to play 3 games but to play for multiples of say 3 games: a time interval like half an hour or 100 games 3 at a time or until I finally click the leave the Spin&Go pool checkbox at my table.
4. Repeat games (because of point 3) would start faster than today's Spin&Go which is manual for some of the registrants. Spinwiz managing a separate queue of players with manual arrival of others directly to the pokerstars lobby is obviously slower than all players in one automated queue for repeat games.
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There are 1000 Spinwiz users but half of them are inactive within a month.
I wonder what the breakdown by stake level is?
Whatever, this suggests Zoom pools would be quite healthily large for many stake levels.