PokerStars Sit & Go Changes: Effective May 6th, 2011 - Page 2 - Internet Poker

heh... Everyone was expecting an improvement. This is probably a worsening to most players.
Maybe it is fair but this is not what they made it sound like in the beginning when they announced the rake changes.
I thought they would reduce the rake like 50% across everything. Maybe only 20% for the 16$ which was cheap to begin with.
I thought that maybe I would be compelled to start playing at stars instead of tilt.
Seems that I either missinterpretated their earlier statements or they gave false hopes.

I guess their intention was to lower it but post black friday they lost so many customers they had to increase it...

But they will loose so many grinders because at some stakes the edges are really tiny and now with a little rake increase some stakes will be hard to beat...

But w/e **** stars I go back to euro rooms much much better

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05-06-2011 , 11:52 AM

#27

Mecastyles

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Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 4,657

this is such a joke, well its not really funny, wtf is stars thinking. upping all the rakes and lowering some very marginal?

joke

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05-06-2011 , 11:53 AM

#28

LeadbellyDan

old hand

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,939

-Overall, we are told these changes mean a slight reduction in rake.

-The rake reductions mostly come at the higher stakes.

-Rake at lower/mid stakes has actually been increased for some formats. (wtf)

-High stakes sng players mostly have a much higher rakeback %age than lower stakes players. This means that rake paid at lower stakes is worth more to Stars.

- Ergo, these changes actually entail an increase in SnG rake paid (wtfwtf).

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05-06-2011 , 11:54 AM

#29

TrojkaT

journeyman

Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 210

totally crap update !! PLS BACK !!

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05-06-2011 , 11:54 AM

#30

phishman

Booty Connoisseur

Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 11,646

lol at 15% rake on $1 180s. cool story stars. hud

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05-06-2011 , 11:54 AM

#31

haman

enthusiast

Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 72

27man SNGs have slighty different payout:

5$+0.50$ 27man:

Old system New System
Prizepool:$135 $135
1st $50 $50.03
2nd $36 $36
3rd $24 $24
4th $14 $13.99
5th $11 $10.98

Is the 3 cents difference really worth? Is it for purpose or bug?

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05-06-2011 , 11:56 AM

#32

clownklauen

banned

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,409

steve my dear, you know i

you

but the responsibles for this bunch of puke-forcing stink-to-hell **** you greedy ****ing *******s who make you try to sell this ****ing robbery as improvement can go and f emselves

micros getting raped, and the lolrois achievable these days gonna be eaten up by the rake

thanx man on the other hand, time to learn a new form of poker or just quit all together

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05-06-2011 , 11:57 AM

#33

Mecastyles

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 4,657

how can some kind of management think, this is actually a good idea boggles my mind, fire those brainless chumps asap

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05-06-2011 , 11:57 AM

#34

Jokko

old hand

Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,265

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Originally Posted by phishman

lol at 15% rake on $1 180s. cool story stars. hud

Yepp same for 45 mans...

what a ****ing joke.

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05-06-2011 , 11:58 AM

#35

UhtredTheUgly

journeyman

Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 334

Increased rake in the games that still have some traffic and decreased rake in games that barely ever run since black friday? Talking about 9man turbos.

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05-06-2011 , 11:59 AM

#36

zerosum79

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Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,978

Although the rake may seem to have gone up, doing something was necessary for stars to stop the glut of $16 grinders and making the games less uniformly profitable as you moved above the $16 level. Here the talent will be better spread out across the levels, possibly improving the profitability for players of the low and mid-stakes games.

Anyways shouldn't all the supernova elite wannabees be happy about paying more rake so they can make SNE? (not serious)

zero

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05-06-2011 , 11:59 AM

#37

jweez

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Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,620

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Originally Posted by Jokko

Yepp same for 45 mans...

what a ****ing joke.

People actually waste their time playing ("grinding") $1 sngs?????

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05-06-2011 , 12:00 PM

#38

KevB1993

journeyman

Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 205

Agree with most people here,the rake increasement is a complete joke.
10%+ rake for Multi Table SNGs?WTF?

THanks for the new games like hyperturbos etc but the rake increasement breaks it alot.

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05-06-2011 , 12:00 PM

#39

zerosum79

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Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,978

Also, I am surprised there is no buyin level between $50 and $100. Even though the doubling of buyins looks pretty, a much more utilitarian approach would have been $50, 80, $120, 200

zero

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05-06-2011 , 12:02 PM

#40

CheezOnToast

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Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 366

I feel like a kid who's come down on christmas morning to find santa bending his mum over and then opens his present to find a big steaming pile of reindeer s**t. FML.

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05-06-2011 , 12:04 PM

#41

Jokko

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Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,265

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Originally Posted by jweez

People actually waste their time playing ("grinding") $1 sngs?????

some peopel dont deposit 1k to play higher some wanna build from scratch what is wrong with that?

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05-06-2011 , 12:04 PM

#42

Acing

journeyman

Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 238

OK this is pretty dumb but what really should be changed is heads up lobbies. Before there was only one lobby open at a time per level. now there's no limit? So just 10 different regs are gonna be sitting in lobbies now? so stupid

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05-06-2011 , 12:04 PM

#43

LebreMan

adept

Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 873

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Originally Posted by phishman

so 3r 180s are gone?

hate this update

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05-06-2011 , 12:04 PM

#44

Smitte

centurion

Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 116

Can't you just show 1 SNG per buyin? This is such a mess when I try to find the right SNG.

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05-06-2011 , 12:05 PM

#45

parkour247

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Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 252

Higher rake is good because you get more FPP and easier to get SuperNova ELITE.

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05-06-2011 , 12:06 PM

#46

Mecastyles

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Originally Posted by LeadbellyDan

Black Friday, global edition.

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05-06-2011 , 12:07 PM

#47

TrojkaT

journeyman

Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 210

its look now: Player for Pokerstars !!! it should be Pokerstars for PLAYER !!
we dont wnna this. ****** FRIDAY !! again !

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05-06-2011 , 12:08 PM

#48

michty6

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Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 4,041

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Originally Posted by LeadbellyDan

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Originally Posted by clownklauen

steve my dear, you know i

Agree, probably the biggest fail in the history of pokerstars. Glad I am moving a lot of my action off, I was waiting on these changes to decide whether or not to come back, easy decision now - they basically just took every game in which they had a better rake than Full Tilt and increased the rake so it is no longer better. LOL.

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05-06-2011 , 12:10 PM

#49

LebreMan

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Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 873

what a joke lol, as if 180 players didn't pay enough rake already

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05-06-2011 , 12:11 PM

#50

twoblack9s

adept

Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 1,070

Oh wow, I can't play on stars anymore but I have to say I am very surprised by these changes, especially with all the anticipation leading up to these changes. Certainly these changes do not sound consistent with what the players wanted as stated by OP....

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