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Originally Posted by SuicideSquad
What is so shady about Party sponsoring players, assuming they do it?
They all play on the same software and you are playing against real people, so at the worst some misplaced sense of entitlement to overlays is being violated.
And what really puzzles me is that as far as players are concerned this is an unambiguous positive. I don't see why people are complaining. If the allegation is that party are literally paying out of their pocket to sponsor bad players for the 'organic' player-base to play against, why exactly are people here so outraged?
It has less to do with entitlement to overlay and more to do with providing a fair playing experience.
1) We know that there is a relationship between the stable(s) and Party Poker. This can easily be concluded by looking at Sharkscope data, forum posts from prior horses, the huge thread about Party in NVG and just Occam's Razor of putting people in 3x re-entries and seemingly never have them play in much softer fields on other sites (they are playing 2,6k hyper sats on Party but never seem to post about the Big 22 on stars).
2) Party Poker denies that there is any partnership between the parties and refuses to even acknowledge posts about it anymore.
So we know that there is a relationship and we also know Party says that there isn't one. If nothing was really going on then it seems completely obvious that Party Poker would just address this directly and explain what their exact relationship is, but instead they have chosen to deny and ignore any questions about it.
I think it's problematic both because of Party Pokers recent past with cheating, because of the game types that are most played are also the easiest for cheating and ones that needs to be monitored the most and because it's a potentially huge conflict of interest to police the games that you profit the most from.
I can see this is your first post here in five years so it's entirely possible you haven't heard but there has been a lot of problems with systematic cheating on Party Poker during the last few years. They had the biggest mtt bot ring ever, massive mtt leaderboard collusion, made cashgame hudless which allegedly means that half the pool is playing with illegal huds and that bots are making up a big portion of the player pool. In other words I think there is reason to be critical, and historically policing of Party Poker games have been left mostly up to the players.
For example If 5/30 people in a satellite is backed by the same person, who has an insider deal with the pokersite that they refuse to tell you about then I just don't feel comfortable playing in that game, and I don't think anyone else should either.
If you don't think that's a big deal that's fair enough too. But to make it into some narrative where people are just upset about lack of overlays I just don't think is fair.