Not here! Not where the Blitzkrieg had massive impact! So shut up and go hit little seals to death, empty headed Canadian!

Don't be silly

I did not realise you had lots of chip shops targeted also? I feel your pain. Our country feels your countries pain. Our Queen feels ... oh hang on she is German so maybe not.

In our area the Chinese, Indians and Turks have closed far more chippys than the Germans ever did.

What about Blitz games in chess ? The word is not connected to the war imo. I didn't even know it. For me Blitz is fast. As simple as that.

for me blitz is in american football and chess

PS will probably not release zoom poker until FTP's relaunch.

Pretty much simple, which one of these two options do you think will make more people stay at PS than going over to FTP?
1. Launch zoom in late February/March and everyone plays it.
2. Launch zoom 2-4 weeks prior to FTP's relaunch and everyone plays it.

I would say number two. This about PS smoothing out the edges of zoom is just BS. If FTP were still going, zoom poker would have been released by now.

PS has absoloutly no competitive reason to release their version of rush. Simple.

What about all the people that used to play RUSH poker like me? I going to PS asap when Zoom is released. Also, the faster they release it, they more reasons I have to stay at PS, cause then I already have build up some VIP level/reads on players/used to the software etc.

Its mainly the people that used to play rush im talking about. Like myself aswell.
Sure theres that argument about VIP levels. But dont you think you will get reads/used to software within 4-2 weeks?

Im just saying, If they are going to release zoom today. Who are PS going to steal customers from? Terminal poker? haha
PS dominates the online market atm no doubt. They are probably already pushing out minor poker sites out of business with better rake/better promotions.

To get that small % now of player instead of securing a higher % of players to stay on PS when FTP relaunches sounds pretty clear to me.

But theres no question about this matter; Everyone has to play zoom before FTP relaunches.
From a PS point of view

Isnt it fairly obvious that Stars is trying their best to get this out?

Why would stars wait until FTP is relaunched to start up zoom WHICH IS THE EXACT SAME AS RUSH. It splits up the people who want to play zoom/rush because they have to choose between stars or ftp, whereas if they release zoom now, you've only got 1 choice: Pokerstars.

Sure is ... to think otherwise is ridiculous

You seem to not have read my post entirely. Stars aint gonna wait until FTP is relaunched , but they are going to wait until FTP relaunches and then release zoom 2-4 weeks prior to FTP relaunch.

Imagine urself this scenario:
FTP comes back! Relaunch in 2 months! One month before FTPs relaunch PS announces "ZOOM POKERZ".

So then you only got 1 choice then as now to play rush poker. Do you see my point now?
Inb4 "but then I have option to wait 1 month for rush", yeah and you have that option now aswell without a timeframe

I see your point now

I'ts going be called Zoom. They already have a zoom tab on the test site.

they are from transylvania, related to dracula... they love eating human flesh, freaking weirdos

SwedishAggroMonkey is an idiot, the sooner pokerstars releases Zoom the better it is in EVERY way period. With that sort of hair brained thinking you shouldn't be playing poker and should be just discussing with your fellow asylum mates about how man never really went to the moon!

Solid first post. Rather than insulting the guy, how about you take the time to write out your opinions on the matter?

Wrong. The sooner PokerStars releases ZooM the best EV for PS. The reason is simple. If they do that many players used to play rush will achieve a good VIP status that they're not going to let it go at the time when FTp is back. If PS releases it 2-4 weeks before FTP reopens then they will split the players. Because many players will just play for 1 week at ZooM and then will go to FTP in order to get paid . Remember, many players are owed by FTP => players must back yes or yes if FTP reopens in order to get a chance to get paid ( and we don't know what kind of rules could FTP put for being paid ). If PS don't release it now it's a -----ev. And I don't think FTP is going to say 2-4 weeks before they will reopen. They're just gonna say it some days before re-opening.

Right now you are assuming 100% of the players that play on PS cares about VIP status. You have totally forgotten about the recreational players which some dont care about VIP status.
How many at PS that wants to play rush cares about VIP status? Neither you or I know that %number unless you´re recruited by PS's marketing staff.

I for one, dont care. I dont rake much. Even if I did play much I would still not rake much and I know SNE is a ****load of raked monkey.

And btw, 29th Feb. Around there is when we are going to know if GBT buys FTP or not, since the deal with the DOJ expires by then. They aint gonna just relaunch within 1 week after they bought the company

After all, I hope ur right and PS releases zoom soon. But I dont agree with your opinion regarding "enough" players caring about their VIP status

Thanks seizure, ok here is my quick 2 cents. The only reason PS hasn't released Zoom yet is they haven't got the bugs sorted out. As soon as they possibly can they will release Zoom, simple and compelling reason is they will make 100s of 1000s of dollars from day 1 and people will flock from every other site to play and a lot will stay permanently.
Side note-in my opinion Zoom is better than Blitz but the word Rush is perfect as that is why people play because they are in a rush and don't want to play a 12 hour tourney. Maybe Impatient would be the best name!!

this thread is ******ed

First thing I have seen in this thread worth reading.

+1

WE WANT RUSH POKER , WE WANT RUSH POKER BITCHES