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Originally Posted by Michael Buble
There aren't that many regs at those stakes for 1K runners daily. You can't live of the profit you can make at those stakes in most of the world, so how is someone gonna grind those tournaments daily?
LOL... who said anything about making a living? I was referring to his "tests." Stars is constantly running "tests" of changes that take poker further away from it's roots.
The claim by Stars is essentially regs win rates are ruining micro/low stakes poker and they are constantly testing stuff to lower them. In here, it is the claim of everyone that this is causing decreased traffic overall, which is bad for Stars long term.
So you've already got the "tests" running for the bad changes... but in order to be scientific you need a comparison point. Run a series of old school tourneys during the day at these limits along side, give them moderate guarantees and proper structures/payouts and promote them as "grinder" events, meaning promote that as being "classic poker tournaments" and see if they become reg infested bowls that go nowhere or if perhaps the players here are right and even recs would rather play a good tourney than some joke flat playout, horrible final table payout, odd structured event.
It's a real test... one that offers both sides up and let's one side win or lose and then you move forward based on the results.
And lots of people can earn enough money to live on in certain countries playing $3 - $11 tourneys... not getting rich, but living on? Sure.
But as I said, it's not about that, it's about getting Luke to stop saying every bad change is a "test" when in reality it's just them slowly, sneakily trying to get bad changes into the software with the least amount of noise or backlash.