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Originally Posted by NellyV
If you can only get a game against a cartel player then you are being cheated. Poker is supposed to be an individual game not one where players band together to cheat the others to profit themselves. That's called collusion. If Pokerstars support cartels then I would question whether they are in breach of their gaming licence which requires them to offer a fair and equal game to ALL their customers.
Theoretically if we remove all cartels atm- you would still only get a game with current cartel members at hu hypers at virtually all times.
Fwiw 100s turbo husngs created a "cartel" this year but it's not been mentioned, and for a rec it's been the exact same. They are playing who they would be playing with or without the so called cartel there. It's telling that no one has been complaining about this- even buthurt regs.
You could say that there is a cartel at 5ks on pokerstars consisting of wcg, ike, vbv, fortheswarm, baron, old time gin and maybe some others. Now I would love to play you at 5k husngs, but unfortunately I don't have the same chance as those "cartel" members since if you sit the lobby they will sit you, and same for me.
I'm sorry you don't get a fair chance to play anyone in husngs due to the nature of the lobby system. Most perceived "good" players won't sit another "good" player, but if an unknown were to sit husng lobbies they would be insta sat by one of the "established regs" at mid-stakes+.
If you don't like the lobby system (which is a fair point- I don't like it much either), go and play on ftp where there is no "cartel" due to infinite lobbies just like hucash. I have to warn you tho that you cannot deny action in husngs once you are regged, so you shouldn't be bitching here about how you want to play someone else when a reg sits you as you open sit 300$ husng lobby.