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Originally Posted by PTLou
...Doesn't Stars have right to market their products to whoever they want ? dont they have the right to determine what their products are ranging from 4BB uber hyper turbo Spin n Go lottery ticket luck fests upto 400BB rake free 6 max NLHE?...
a) Of course the owners and management of any business have the legal right to market their product(s) as they wish.
b) This article isn't about marketing to new audiences, or reaching new customers, or introducing new products. This article - perhaps unfairly to PokerStars, I don't know - is talking about putting the company in direct competition to high-volume players.
c) I don't think that a poker site operator is (or should be!) in combat/conflict with high-volume, winning, players. They're both part of a economy, and both have the opportunity to prosper. The most obvious demonstration that both poker sites, and winning poker players can prosper is that they have in the past.
d) Even as late as January of this year,
PokerStars used the word "prey" to only refer to those players who cheated by gaining an
unfair advantage. Seeing a journalist - not PokerStars - use it in reference to players who have a
fair advantage by studying and learning the game is very disconcerting. That said, Bloomberg isn't the official representative of PokerStars, so hopefully such word choice is by the individual writer, not PokerStars.