Why you don't answer to the people that post questions, only the ones that are convinient to you? Are you making fun of us again? Show some respect man, address other questions.
It amazes me how you still have the gut to go here, read 10 comments and answer only the one that no one cares.

Show the plan, show the strategy.. But don't expect to sneak in the thread and then leave and thinking no one notice and won't say nothing.
MAN UP

+1

we should just quote all the questions that matthew has dodged

Pretty much sums up how I feel about the whole disaster stunt.

But everyone that is attacking Matthew directly, what exactly are you hoping to achieve? This is not a Q&A thread, this is an Amaya statement and personal attacks on him is just foul.

Before Amaya bought Stars, I had a session where my internet went out, I was in roughly $1,500 worth on SNGs. By the time it came back on, I was blinded out of all my games.

I had heard of loyal regs having some of their money refunded when stuff like that happened in the past. Even though it seemingly made zero sense to me, and I figured there was no way in hell they would do anything, I shot them an email and asked if there was anything they could do.

The response I got back was pretty incredible. It was obvious typed out by a real person. It said something along the lines of "We understand that internet outages while multi tabling is one of the most frustrating things that can happen to a poker player! Since you've been a supernova and loyal customer of ours for X amount of time, I am going to refund all your games, as a one time favor. Good luck at the tables."

And every cent was refunded to my account. I was legitimately in shock. Made me want to grind that much more, not only for myself, but I looked at it like I was helping stars business too. Like we had each others backs in a way.

For every 1.000$ winning player cash out, losing players have to deposit who knows, maybe 2.000$. After last ipoker rakeback changes I got this for the first time: If I play on xy poker site and never deposit, only cash out, then I must be a problem for them. Before that moment I thought more like: I make this amount of rake every month, so they must be happy to have such a loyal customer.

Sure, there could be a problem with players playing 20+ tables and other players have to wait for them and that make playing poker less attractive, but real problem is: this player playing 20+ tables never deposit money.

I was wondering if last announced changes are just a play, you know, to check out what Amaya can get away with, so they will take some of this changes back. But I am afraid that this is not the case. They just want winning regs gone (that could be a reason to be so rude). After this changes winning regs have 2 options: continue to play and just give Amaya more money, or leave and Amaya gets what they intended. And I have to ask myself: what other poker site will be happy to get 50 new winning regs on their network. I guess none! This could be a real problem here.

With all that said, I think there are reasons to have good winning players on your site, but more for promotional purposes. Regs fill tables, sngs and tourneys and I am not sure that Amaya realize how much can that hit poker ecosystem. I will be happy not to play on Amayastars for few days or weeks, just to remind them how things can turn. And hope there is anybody in Amaya management who will give a **** about that.

Really not so hard to tell why they removed a 1milly freerole which playerpool consisted of 95% professionals... can we ask him some non-rhetorical q's?

I don't otherwise really care about this since I think it is long overdue, but I think there are 2 things that are quite "unfair":

-FPP conversion rate of 1.2
-No points for 5/10 and up.

pure greed by pokerstars....

it doesnt hurt me much, but it sucks for the high rake bros

Some action plan?

The best route to global poker expansion is through diversity. If all sites offer exactly the same product that appeals to some and not others then the industry will falter. A site that lays out its vision for the future shouldn't be criticised for openly presenting its business plan. Those wishing to protest change have suggested a boycott which at best is very problematic. A far better approach would be for members to all agree to visit a chosen site on a particular day. This would enable that site to present its own vision, highlight the differences and allow the customers to choose. A demonstrable increase in business even for one day would be a huge incentive for a site to accommodate player requirements on a more permanent basis.

its pretty funny and insulting that matthew is only replying to posts which makes it look good for amaya and just ignoring legit questions which 100% need answering. And to do it so blatantly obvious is pretty disgusting.

Even if it was a "all these will be answered soon, we are creating a long post to get all information out asap" is better than just ignoring everyone

You would have thought that they would have realised these changes were going to cause massive uproar. Thus, firstly had lots reps to "explain" their decisions and also to have properly informed all their team pros etc.

Negreanu for instance appears to have been caught unaware of the full extent of what was being implemented and starting banging on about HUD bans (which hasn't even been confirmed, in fact it may not even be true) and didn't seem to understand the VIP changes.

These changes weren't a bit of a tweak of SNE / SN scheme etc, it is a massive realignment of the business. It is just another example of how poorly Stars is being managed these days.

Great post

What about MTT's? Will they still be beatable under the new system?

recs will play spins thats the goal.... its a huge assumption to say some recs wont play spins...

Given that the spread is not huge in terms of capped rake compared to the difference between the stake, plus the fact that lowest stake have more tables running, $0.05/$0.10 will pay the most rake. I could be wrong here.

MTT's are probably the least directly affected by these changes.

I would presume the biggest concern if you an MTT grinder is that the pros from other games like SnG's will switch over and make the player pool harder.

http://www.uspoker.com/blog/positive...changes/12762/

insightful post imo

"This message is hidden because xXPocketDucksXx is on your ignore list."

is he still licking their asses?

I say we all go on strike effective Jan 1st IF AMAYA goes through with this.

What some ******s arent understanding is that this doesnt just effect the top of the chain this ****ing effects EVERYONE they are literally taking away tons of $ off the tables.


STRIKEEEEE CITY LETS DO IT GUYS id be so down starting january 1st 2016.

What has been the publicly stated reactions of Pokerstars sponsored players (Team online members etc)?

Is it expected that PS will sack a whole bunch of grinder type pros and continue to recruit celebrity sponsored players eg soccer players?

Basically nothing. I would presume they have been asked not to say too much without clearing it with Stars.

The only person I have seen engaging extensively about it is JamieStaples, and he says he is ok with the changes, although he thinks it will reduce the number of pros by a percentage.

+1

another good business destroyed, oh well