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Old 08-04-2012, 01:59 PM   #1
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Poker stars Full tilt deal, NOT a good thing for poker!

Besides the good news for the former FTP players, Its a sad thing for poker-online that Poker Stars has finally put his hands on Full Tilt.
It’ll soon become a sort of google of the pokerworld and eventually will kill the joy of playing altogether.
And because of it’s colossal size the change of being a profitable player will be comparable to buying a lottery ticket.

A few years ago you could play a reasonable game on Stars and your odds to win or getting good cards were quite normal.
Nowadays when you open two tables you get cards dealt like 49 and on the other 94 or other software invented combinations. The bigger Poker stars grew the worse the odds became for the individual player and mathematically it all makes sense of course, but if you have to muck 20 hands or more it’s not much fun anymore. More, I suspect that the software isn’t randomly like it was.

Poker stars came with a solution for the enormous amount of unplayable cards, they invented Zoom; a mindnumbing jackpot activity that has not much to do with serious poker.
Just compare your winning streaks of today with that of 2009 and you’ll see that the game of skill has resulted more in a game of change and that the online pokergame eventually will degenerate into a moneygrab (rake) industry.
The plan to take over full tilt will create a poker monster website and will therefore not benefit You as a pokerplayer but only Poker stars itself.

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Old 08-04-2012, 02:04 PM   #2
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So many LOLs in OP.
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Old 08-04-2012, 02:06 PM   #3
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google is awesome.
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Old 08-04-2012, 02:06 PM   #4
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OP is a gentleman and a scholar
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Old 08-04-2012, 02:14 PM   #5
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OP is good for the game
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Old 08-04-2012, 02:17 PM   #6
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Old 08-04-2012, 02:21 PM   #7
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TIL that pokerstars buying fulltilt makes it more likely for one to get dealt 9-4o. OP can u give us more examples of "software invented combinations"?
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Old 08-04-2012, 02:23 PM   #8
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Re: Poker stars Full tilt deal, NOT a good thing for poker!

You heard it here first 49o was invented by computer software.

You never get that hand in live poker.
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Old 08-04-2012, 02:24 PM   #9
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Re: Poker stars Full tilt deal, NOT a good thing for poker!

Quote:
Originally Posted by shtadlan View Post

A few years ago you could play a reasonable game on Stars and your odds to win or getting good cards were quite normal.
Nowadays when you open two tables you get cards dealt like 49 and on the other 94 or other software invented combinations. The bigger Poker stars grew the worse the odds became for the individual player and mathematically it all makes sense of course, but if you have to muck 20 hands or more it’s not much fun anymore. More, I suspect that the software isn’t randomly like it was.
I lol'd. Thanks OP!
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Old 08-04-2012, 02:26 PM   #10
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I for one look forward to 32 Max tables
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Old 08-04-2012, 02:26 PM   #11
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Some truth in the title. But your post is a dumpster.
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Old 08-04-2012, 02:28 PM   #12
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i haven't posted in 2p2 in a few days/weeks or something, but this post was such gold i had to reply.
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Old 08-04-2012, 02:28 PM   #13
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I hate when I get dealt cards like 49o and 94o. Poker was better in 2009 confirmed.
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Old 08-04-2012, 02:30 PM   #14
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imagine if pokerstars was a big poker site they would make lots of money
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Old 08-04-2012, 02:32 PM   #15
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