Anyone who moved from Ontario knows if they could continue playing with their original account on the ggpoker and stars global client?

I am interested as well. I was in Quebec this weekend and stars global would not let me log in my main account

anyones wsop client not opening?

Yeah same here. Was connected to the site but after pc restart it just won't open anymore.

can we not play at all or just only others in Ontario?
my Mac laptop is saying they can't verifiy my location and also says I have an app on my computer that won't let me use poker stars?

please help!!!!

Same client will not open after downloading since 11:30am

killed the ggpoker process in the background did the trick.

Not sure what this means?
Still won’t pop up after download

Are there any actions being taken to return online poker to how it was before segregation? Segregation is garbage, it basically ruined online poker for me. Online poker was fine before. Regulators need to figure out a way to do their job without segregating the market because that DOES NOT work for online poker, it just kills the game and they need to know that.

I had that exact same sentiment when it first went down, I was pissed, fast forward 6 months and I've made more money in ring fenced pool last year than all previous years combined. Ring fenced really hurt the MTT grinders that wanted a massive score with huge fields. And even now, the MTT fields are smaller and softer so your ROI will be higher and with less variance. The cash streets are probably some of the best in the world aside from maybe the apps.

What I did was I found a ggpoker process (not wsop.ca, weird) running in windows task manager and ended it.

Why? The government's making money they didn't make before, which is why they did this. It would be weird to create a system to make more money, and then when it does, shut it down.

As long as it keeps making them money, they're not likely to care. Also, is this even a widely-shared sentiment? I remember thinking the same thing when other markets segregated themselves, and it surprised me how many times there were a significant number of players who liked it better.

Best case scenario would be a US/CA wide pool. Best case realistic scenario would be a CA wide pool. But even that scenario is unlikely in the near future. How sustainable an ON wide pool is very much up to us and how much we interact with rec players to make sure they're having a good time.

EDIT: it's also very much up to factors outside our control such as advertising, economy, etc but it is definitely also very much up to us

I doubt the regulators care or really even know why they need to segregate Canada is probably just copying the states who have more state controlled laws. Theres not alot stopping them from merging but also no incentive to do it. they wont make more money or anything. The only way it happens is if the sites running 7 different sites lobby them

It would be more complicated than you may think to merge pools. Gambling is a provincially regulated activity in Canada. That means multiple provincial regulators would have to work together, be able to divide corporate profits accurately between the jurisdictions for tax compliance, and inherently take on responsibility for some activity outside of their province. The only reason they would want to do this is if it was very clear that multi-prov pools would bring in more revenue to each province’s coffers than the segregated pools. I think that is possible but not certain. Add it to the headache of administrating the larger pools and I don’t think this will happen.

Ontario has been putting up pretty solid NLHE cash game numbers imo.

This is StarsON traffic at 6 max 100nl and 200nl last night at 9pm EST:



Then this is the same screenshot for the global pool at the same time (from a friend):




Almost identical at 100 and 200, which is impressive given the provinces size. The constant gambling ads everywhere may be annoying, but they sure have helped traffic. And not the first time I've seen Ontario have more tables than the global pool at 100nl when I ask a friend how many they see.

This.

It could be in the interest of the smaller provinces, but it would be of much less benefit to Ontario, if any. I wouldn't rule it out from ever happening, but I wouldn't expect it any time soon.

That's actually shocking. The global pool must be magnitudes bigger. I dunno how it's possible for Ontario to have close to the traffic on the global pool, even on a good day for Ontario. I guess Ontario is degen af.

This is the traffic at 4 AM for 50NL+.



We aren't 24/7 degens apparently.

Ontario doesn't enforce the 4 table limit that global does (did?). There is a good number of regs playing 10-15 tables. Keeps the table counts high. Luckily there's enough fish to balance that out (for now).

Just a rec player, but last night I noticed that pokerstars was running a happy hour. Is this something new? Is there a way to find out when they run happy hour or is it random. Thanks.

https://www.on.pokerstars.ca/poker/p...s/happy-hours/

Play between 00:00 - 02:00 EST and 17:00 - 19:00 EST at any cash game stakes and you’ll earn double PokerStars Rewards points.

yeah, I think that starsON actually wants the regs playing a lot of tables, so there are more tables for the fish to sit. There are a lot of fish in this pool, so the regs are more valuable to rooms as they keep tables running.

Play between 00:00 - 02:00 EST and 17:00 - 19:00 EST at any cash game stakes and you’ll earn double PokerStars Rewards points.

Thank You

this also the tables are soft enough where you can play 15 and still make reasonable winrates not unlike the old days see nanako or w/e his name was. A 4 table limit is really only needed when tables get too tough

Do you literally play 15? That's insane if you do. Can't play more than five without losing focus.