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Originally Posted by mrmaxxx
lol at the polling result. Does PS care?
I'm very certain they do care, otherwise there would be no point discussing these issues by creating these threads. They also engage 2p2 forums on discussions in wide variety of topics, so I would refrain from all kinds of "**** yea, bring the rake down. **** this ****" comments, they are not helping our case at all, instead make us look like idiots.
Just wanted to point it out, like has been said, this thread was not created just to discuss rake although it will naturally be a part of discussion. We are hoping that the variety of topics that Pokerstars chooses to discuss with 2p2 community would be separated between different games, ie between PLO and NLHE.
I'm sure everyone here realises that Pokerstars is running a business and their job is to make their shareholders happy. Neither the players or Pokerstars want to create a predatory environment for recretional players. Pokerstars wants to make money of deposits, players want to make money from the money flowing upwards. One of the concerns at the moment is that the money is not currently flowing/will not flow (in the near future) upwards anymore because of the rake, so it's one reason why we are addressing these issues. These no proof the lowering rake would decrease Pokerstars revenue long-term. But like mentioned, it's just one of the issues. We also need more marketing efforts from Pokerstars regarding PLO, introduce PLO guaranteed prize pool tournaments etc to make the game more visible to a lot of players, since they already are charging quite an hefty amount from us to play the game.
So I would calm down with worries that Pokerstars are not listening or reading, I'm positive they are. Meanwhile we can keep throwing ideas around. They have always said that they are willing to jump on ideas stemming from 2p2/players if it makes sense for all parties.