Yup, thread is a huge letdown. Thought Stars actually cared for a second.



#LEGGOTEAMTAPIE

It has been about two months, and obviously people are frustrated here, but I'll see if we can get some updates this week from PokerStars.

There's nothing to do but be patient, on the bright side, PokerStars is still far ahead of most other rooms with heads up sng offerings. We'll also begin to push some of those other rooms (particularly ones with husng action above the $30 level) to have some better player policies (rake and structure to begin with) in the near future.

I can't believe anybody would talk positive about FTP though, seriously? I think we see why the games were as soft as they were now (120 mil in fictional money in the pool anybody? Huge money for red pros to play, etc.).

They had a nice leaderboard, but I would bet Stars adds one this year (no inside info, just a guess based on this thread), and besides, FTP wasn't even solvent when they offered the leaderboard, so none of it really matters all that much right? Like, it doesn't matter if you run a great cash register at your store, if all your goods are stolen or won't hold up long term, I don't want them.

Or, it doesn't matter if you're a good babysitter, if you're pooping your pants you're not babysitting my kids!

Piss poor analogies due to short time, but I think you get the point, whatever gripes we have about Stars, it pales in comparison to the now public actions of FTP over the last few years, and Stars still holds up quite favorable compared to current competition (in the heads up sng department, not sure about other games).

My post was supposed to be a level

But either way, nobody is propping up FTP's actions. Their software development team does deserve credit though. IMO, FTP's software 1 year ago is still better than PS's 2012 software.

Meh, not the right thread to discuss this, but keep in mind FTP2 will be run by new management. FTP1's actions shouldn't really have any bearing on your perception of FTP2's future management skills. Also, at this point, FTP is more likely to come back than not, so gtfo with that runner-runner talk .

Sure their software developers did a fine job, but I'm sure every other poker room is waiting to show you what they could do if they could give their players a free 100 million dollars to play on their site.

When companies encounter shortfalls or low growth periods due to seizures or processor issues, they usually have to make cuts and scale back to make up that shortfall. FTP decided instead to pretend that they had processed funds/pretend they had made up shortfalls, right?

What I mean by that, is what would their software team look like if they had actually covered their losses, only gave funds to charged deposits and segregated player funds? Maybe take it one step further and talk about marketing being cut, which would lead to the same thing (lower revenue, smaller room, smaller budget).

I always liked Stars software and many players report it's improved post black friday. Even if FTP was #1 in software and Stars were #2 before, isn't it more impressive to have built that software and larger playerbase all while actually holding the player funds entrusted to you?