If the Russian government is about to block Pokerstars, Pokerstars won't want to attract new Russian players who want to play from Russia.
Much the same as with US based customers.

And as always, what about those recreational players who don't know what they're entitled to?

It's totally different. In USA you can't play real money games on PokerStars. In Russia you can play whatever you want on Pokerstars if you have a client, but you have to download it first, but they are blocking every site that PokerStars created, so the new recs can't open a site and this means we don't have a lot of recs from Russia. I mean Russia is a big country and here is a lot of people who want to play poker. I'm pretty sure that PokerStars can handle this very easy. It's all about taxes as far as I am aware.

Hi Luke, two of the tournies I was playing resumed "unexpectedly" during 19.29 and 19.47. It so happens that I busted of both of them during the unsuspension, only for the tournies to be suspended and rolled over right after.

Has any decision been made in this respect ?

It is more than obvious than I would have played completely differently if I had known tournies were going to be rolled over litteraly 1 min after I busted out, and would have remained in the tourney. One can expect the tourney to continue once it was unsuspended.

WTF is this ****. Just Started Stars, i entered some tourneys, then it freeze saying "table creating failed" i can see my holecards on the tables, but i cant click away the error window. anyone else with this problems? I tried restarting the software but wont help.

edit: now when i try to open some spin and goes, i get registered, but tables wont pop up and it says "low system resources" i got an half year old i5, 16gb ram , ssd etc, everything is working fine, its just the software that is making trouble. Of course im am NOT getting unregistered from these tourneys, cant even open the tables. My money seems gone, what a ****ing mess.

Something seriously ****ed with PS software right now.

here we go, again and again. P* is history.

roll out back the soft that had tabs instead of filters.

+1 bring back the tabs

still no update on the outage from Sunday? Surely they know the cause by now...

There was a fault in Sector 7G

u cant have it both ways, otherwise its a freeroll for u. what if u doubled up during this period, would u be asking stars for only half the equity because u played differently? u cant have a system where u gain equity in both cases: u double up and double ur equity, u bustout then get ur equity restored

Yeah I heard it was Lenny's fault..

Sadly they can't even use this excuse. I should know.

years ago I would have thought of the Simpsons immediately instead of a p2p user's name

this. wtf sigh

dude bring back tabs already. im supposed to be a reg and i dont even know how to find my way through this lobby

Wtf happened to Barca sats this year? 530's are 10 minute levels with 3k startstack??

Only decent sats now are the two 215 ultra sats. Please give all 530's the same structure.

whats going on with their pko mtts? they changed the bounties but the lobbies still have it 50/50, the money in the prize pool says it being placed 50/50 payout/bounty however they are only putting 25% into the bounties, is this just a glitch with the lobbies? or is 25% of the prize pool being taking off the table

The number you see above the players is what you'll win if you knock them out now, not what their total bounty it.

Are guarantees down on tourneys because of WSOP?

There have been 20 posts about this already

No, because of summer, and the increasing number of players fleeing from Pokerstars.

14.15 ET 1$R Splash down to 5k GTD. Sheesh. Having it at 40-60k not that long ago seems so unreal.

Splash almost as big of a success as the pokerstars championship.

Amaya really knows how to drive companies into the ground. It's gonna be ongame all over again.

Give them some time. They are currently working on killing Saturday KO first.