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Originally Posted by Mexican_Natis
I could use some info on the promotions and also the players trying to get free orbits. Any information that you guys think would be helpful regarding either of these two problems would help. I think it would help me to start by just having a better idea of the current culture, such as what type of demographics makes up the majority of players, I saw someone mention the U.S. player pool made up a large percent of the players and losing them hurt LHE. Who are the current Pokerstars Pros who play LHE and where are these guys from? Any other info that is relevant would be great.
Promotions: We have the milestone hands like everybody else and we had Negreanu donating something in a LHE challenge. They tried to keep this challenge going but there just aren't a lot of regs who want to play each other in this or PS pro's who want to donate to the LHE cause
Causes of this is likely the high level of play (close to GTO) and inability to get high stakes action to earn losses back. I don't play HU or high stakes so I could be wrong.
There was some idea tossed around to have scheduled high stakes LHE games by PS baard iirc, which was pretty well received, but I don't know what happened to that (maybe someone else can enlighten me). The idea was to have highstakes games at a certain times in the week (one or two days) where regs would agree to play who-ever was there for a certain time. Not sure if this still has enough support nowadays, since I don't see a specific whale anymore.
We've asked for some kind of game-specific promos for years since all game-specific promos go towards NLHE. We always got the answer they don't want to elevate one game above the other, but with the PLO promo we got now we assume there will be a LHE promo in the near future. Which we obviously like, but it's long overdue.
NLHE is the popular game, so if they give away tickets, it's for NLHE. I can understand this. However, if you get a 20$-reload ticket for WCOOP (or wich ever series), which you are supposed to use in any game, there are no LHE tourneys with that buy-in. Tournaments are great to get new players to the game, but they should be able to pick a LHE tournament (preferably non turbo).
The major problem we have, is that pokerstars is already the only big site for LHE. They have no incentive to create exposure to LHE players, because they all play on pokerstars already.
Demographics: Since USA, France, Italy and Spain are gone I guess most people are russians now. Germany is also well represented, but not really among the bad players.
We got one online pro who's a LHE player Tzen1 (Richard Veenman), unless I'm missing something at micro-stakes he's the only one who ever plays LHE. He plays like once a week on 2-4 to 5-10 often for a bit too many tables. He's dutch.
Online pro Donald used to play LHE, but I haven't seen him for 2 years+.
Thanks for taking your time to hear out the LHE community.
Last edited by G1lius; 04-01-2013 at 03:46 AM.