Quote:
Originally Posted by Sect7G
Going to voice my opinion on the change in regards to rebuys getting hit hard.
Speaking honestly this blow isn't so bad for low stake regular MTT rebuys... I mean it's not good but in reality if the structure is decent a rebuy is much like a re-entry.
This blow is designed to hurt satellite players. The reason for this is they've looked at the numbers and they've come to the conclusion that far too much money is being cashed out via $T money grinders playing the 3x's. I anticipated this and asked Luke to PM me about 6 months ago if they planned to change policy. I had no doubt that change was coming and I was open to offer solutions to the problem (from their perspective).
The reality is there is a huge number of Lithuanian and Polish 3x grinders. (who often make up 50% of the entire fields everyday for all sats that finish before the target tourney, 12 hours a day... except Fridays when the Lithuanians take that day off)
And they are winning a lot. This is the reason for this change. Had Pokerstars done a proper security investigation they'd see that a good portion of these stable players are colluding and had they have been banned the winrates wouldn't be so high and therefore the rest of us would have been spared this rake hike. And I'd stake my name to their lack of enforcement.
So here the rest of us honest players have to feel the blunt due to others colluding.
i disagree on a few points here.
first of, if they wanted to hurt satellite players there are other ways to do, the most simple mentioned many many times to make the seat must-play or even more extreme make all seats paid as tickets.
there, no $T money grinders.
but stars still wants to get all the rake from all the sats grinding.
as for the group of players, like you said if they wanted them out they could do a proper security check and ban whoever was found to collude.
actually with this change, the only players that are more likely to 'survive' are these groups (whether they are colluding or a stable or just studying together sharing hh/ranges etc i don't know)
since they'll be the ones with bigger roi's that can stand the 8x rake hit.
lastly, this change isn't going to hit just the sats grinders. it's going to hit all rebuy and hyper sats.
especially the 2xT/3xTs which by the way should be about 40% (luke feel free to correct this number) of all mtt-sat offerings, excluding hypers.
and let's not forget the recently introduced and quite successful 1r1a hypers (another super rake boost here too, 2.5x for hypers plus the rebuy+addon rake).
(the other recent satellites change with the annoying mincashes doesn't help either-nobody wants to mincash to get their buy-in or even less back).
these sats are going to die, or at the very least take a massive hit, and it's quite obvious that their targets will get a massive hit as well, esp the hs reds.
are they really that short-sighted and stupid to not see that or are they just happy to kill their mtt's schedule
(so 'customers'-as we are viewed- go and play other stuff from SpinNgos to casino games and sportsbetting)
both scenarios viable imo and not sure which one is worse.
ps. summer traffic is going doooowwwnnn