This is getting even worse in the last couple of weeks. Even 100NL FR start to have periods of downtime.

I wonder what is the next step? Midstakes FR dying completely?

calling JOnion

rush poker dead too

the trolling took a noticable dip when you got scammed. did you get paid back or just get over it?

either way good to see you back man

who got scammed have i missed something?

Thank the Lord.

Yeah, 100NL often doesn't run in the mornings now, and obv rebirth of FTP doesn't help with the Stars player pool.

Caleb said they were hoping to introduce short-handed play at FR Zoom months ago (June) as Hurt says (although Caleb did say it would prob take a few months if they did it.) I'll message him again, and see if they still intend to do this.

(EDIT: Message sent to Caleb. I have asked him if he could comment in this thread as to Stars' plans regarding possible Zoom short-handed play.)

this is why i stopped playing fr over a year ago

got paid in full thanks to the help i got from Meleab and some others who donated their information and time..really happy how that ended

+1
also, i think the theory that eliminating the ssers would crush stars as well should be dispelled or analyzed further before making sweeping assumptions. i think eliminating cap games would def crush them as they're cash machines, but with the amount of 3b/folds and 4bshoves>folds that aren't raked in normal games, compared to the amount of hands that could take a flop deeper, which would be raked, it seems like just a theory to me.

thanks... i guess when i stacked the zoom tables i felt like i wasn't really taking advantage of the 'fast fold' button because the tables would only pop up when it's my turn (iirc). but i've been trying to avoid zoom in general lately.

I don't see how adding a Supernova+ level costs them anything. Leave the milestone bonus the same, change the color of my stars and give me a 4x multiplier. And no the 4x multiplier won't cost them anything because I'll almost be doubling my volume to get it.

Steve,

I know you said it's unlikely to happen but do you know off the top of your head if the costs would be high for something like this? It seems like any costs would easily be offset by increased rake. Thanks.

good to hear and props to melea

the cost to pokerstars would be insignifigant, if anything. up to this point it seems like they have zero concerns with the impact of game quality when it comes to increasing players volume so i'm not sure if what their hesitation is other than it may cost them slightly more in payouts to people who would achieve this milestone anyways vs the additional rake generated by people increasing volume

all poker sites have started to focus less on high volume regs that are crushing the games in the last months. Ipoker started to ban from their site some of biggest winners (without them doing anything wrong) and party poker closed all stakes >1000NL.

Stars has a total monopoly over the market. If you don't agree with what they do you can't really do anything about it. This is probably why stars does not consider rewarding more 400-500k vpp regs.

WTF ?

Is it because the skins had a desequilibrate ratio winners / fishes ? Or just because they had a big BB/100 ?

I guess because of this: desequilibrate ratio winners(crushers) / fishes

Are you stupid or just naive?

that's teh only thing party poker did better imo when they introduced their palladium reward program (don't know if it is still there).

they had like a rolling 3month period where u could make palladium elite and then maintain it thereafter for a while.
i wouldn't mind giving stars 3 or even 6 month elite volume in winter but teh whole year for 0.35-0.40VPP/hand no effin way. i did sne in 2009 and 2010, 800k last year, 600k tis year and i doubt i'll be doing moar than 500k next year tbh...
atm i have so much time (september-december) but for me there is absolutely no reason to increase my volume in any way. milestones are nice but by far not progressive enough that i would wanted to push for 700 or 800k, both which i could've moar or less easily done...

they give u kind of expensive watch once u hit 5mio vpp

lets get back to reg gossip. anyone read 40bber "neugaray" as "you-are-gay". i mean meleab for sure, but who else?

k i've asked a few people about this on skype, just to settle an argument, is this song **** or not?

Enlighten me please condescending internet know it all.

hahaha best popcorn gif i have seen to date!

You don't have much longer to wait for shorthanded Zoom.

I don't expect that there will be any increases in rewards for high volume players in the forseeable future. We do have a 5m LTVPP award (a watch) and will announce a 10m LTVPP award at some point.

We are happy with the amount of rewards offered at these levels.