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Originally Posted by Vedast
Deleting the 20bb-50bb tables is the worst decision Poker Stars has ever made.
Adding 50bb max was the WORST decision PokerStars ever made and DELETING them was the BEST decision they ever made. Those tables were awful for many reasons, but the main reasons were that they were CAP games in NLHE sheep's clothing. They kept the pots small, generated less rake, clipped full stackers win-rate, and most importantly, delivered a PISS POOR NLHE experience to fish, casual players, pros, semi-pros and anyone who wanted to play NLHE. 50bb max were great CAP tables but POOR NLHE tables.
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Originally Posted by Vedast
This is going to make thousands of players generate much less rake (many of them will just stop playing at Poker Stars).
You couldn't be more wrong if you said red was blue and poop was chocolate icing. The rake generated went DOWN for Stars because players like ME did leave for Full Tilt and also because everyone had to drop down stakes when the games got tougher and crappier. Then, Stars got even LESS rake from casual players because the pot size was effectively "CAPPED" at 50bb max
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Originally Posted by Vedast
And also, there were thousands of players that had plans to reach a certain amount of VPP for this year and now they won't be able to do it. Hundreds of them even going for Supernova Elite, like me.
Hey, welcome to many of
OUR worlds last April. I was going for Double Nova and stopped short of my chase in May @ 75k VPP's because the games sucked so bad. I really did leave and picked up with no problem on Full Tilt. But, in
YOUR case, you will NOT leave. You are stuck and a slave to the VIP program. You will stay and play CAP or stay and play SNG's/MTT's or stay and become a full stacking ultra nit or quit poker. You won't leave for another site because there is no where else for you to go and you survive off REWARDS and no site has better rewards ... nice try though. I really DID leave last year and really AM coming back. Your threats carry no weight.
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Originally Posted by Vedast
The solution wasn't removing those games, but just adding 20bb cap tables. Removing options is always bad. Poker Stars should give more options to their players, so it's more probable that they find something they like, and therefore generate rake. Changing one kind of table for this one (20bb cap) in practice will just make it impossible to play shortstacked at many tables, hurting lots of players, and making the poker room lose hundreds of millions of dollars.
NO options were removed. You can still buy-in for 20bb at the CAP tables and play the game you were born to play. Wanna buy-in short at NLHE tables? You can still do that. 40bb IS SHORT. You lost NOTHING except the ability to leech off the NLHE player pool and you should have never had that to begin with. Have fun
adjusting for the first time in your lives.
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Originally Posted by Vedast
Just to make happy some 2+2 users (the vast majority of them don't even play much, just whine, whine and whine here) you, Poker Stars, have made your worst decision ever. You are going to regret doing this.
No. They will not ... for the reasons I said above. 50bb max was a disaster from square one and the fact they weren't around for even a full year is testament to that.