After days of reading and trying to comprehend what is happening my conclusions are:

Ivan is a **********, he should be fired. I don't know russian but even with the translations I can feel that he is drunk and maybe under the influence of some magic powder.

If GG wanted to show the world that crackheads are running their skins they succeeded. I don't play for any stable and I don't give a flying **** about them, but there is no logic at all in everything he said.

The fact is: every winning reg is in danger on GG.

The most arrogant casino I have ever seen.
1. There is no responsible gaming department.
2. You cannot block an account even through the support service (they simply ignore) when you write to them about blocking before a certain date, because they do not have such a function in the client so that you can self-exclude.
3. You cannot lower limits or limit deposit limits.
Does GGnetwork management even understand what’s going on?
However, your brand is suffering, but I will keep you posted.
I lost more than I could afford and asked to block my account for 6 months, they simply ignored me)))
Today's answer: play responsibly and don't play at limits where you can't afford to lose)))
This is the first time I've seen this happen in 16 years of poker. In any casino, if you ask support to block an account, it will be blocked upon request, but in CIS poker it’s chaos.

That is hilarious. Be stupid enough to do that and somehow make it sites fault. You are the guy pissing at the electric fence blaming the farmer lol. You sir are the Darwin.

Its literally a feature in every serious casino that problem gamblers can self limit. Moronic post.

GG's employee of the month came back to post something important at 06:30 AM

Feel free to use google translate if you don't want to believe me, but he said:
"If they agree with my offer, I will immediately remove all limits and unlock innocent players"
#ggcares
*negreanu more rake is better dance*

I demand 1 million dollars, helicopter and apologies, then I will release all the hostages.

Guys what if all of this is a sick April Fools joke?

It’s not surprising GG handles everything like Tovarish Stalin would handle, it’s not good but it’s effective

Even if everyone knows that you’re guilty by todays modern world standards nobody can touch you until your guilty is proven

We all know those poker schools doing some shady stuff, online poker is suffering, in the other hand we can list tons of things that we don’t like about GG but one thing we all like juicy games with many rec players in it which GG offers tbh i don’t care about poker schools, if GG starts to target single regs than ill join to protest their actions

Official Statement of Pokerok and GG Poker Network

https://t.me/ggpokerok/7582



Translation:

1. Activities of stables systematically violating platform rules (including team play, soft play, ghosting, collusion, bum hunting, multi-accounting, collective data mining, note sharing, and mining) must cease. Otherwise, according to the updated Ecology and Security Agreement effective from April 8, players' stable bankrolls will be confiscated.

We affirm that poker is an individual game, and such stable activities imply promoting poker as a collective game, which contradicts the entire positioning of GGPoker Network.

2. Backing players in tournaments should only occur through the functionality of the PokerOK client within the GGPoker Network. In the next two months, we will implement a feature allowing visibility of a player's backers to expand backing functionality.

3. Stables should not publicly advertise player backing. Backing should be a private agreement, not a marketing tool to attract more players to stables.

4. Any stable violating these rules is prohibited from conducting business on PokerOK and GGPoker Network, and associated players may face restrictions, blocks, or fund confiscation.

Stables promote studying as a group activity, not playing. And so do many coaches. I'm a member of Raiseyouredge discord channel, people discuss hands there, but I really doubt any member of that channel is a predator, hurting "ecology" on GG.
All this story is very shady, considering everything that CEO said. I wrote about it in PokerOk group and was instantly banned by admins lol.
Amusing nuance - person that is in charge of fair play on GG has his own stable.

What does this mean?

Also GGPoker will ban now all stable players? Including Pokercode, pocarr, BBZ etc.?

Great

Ban al russians. 100% cheaters, 0% etichs. Create a site just for them.

Really bigoted opinion.

Yes it is but it's also pretty much the truth

As usual two plus two thread devolves into “idc about your problem bc it doesn’t affect me”
I’m not a big fan of stables but I don’t think you can just ban them. But whatever, if GG is gonna ban them then ok, that’s their policy, but it should at least give notice to the players in advance, give them chance to leave stable.

the pokerstars method,
unfortunately they dont offer games to a lot of countries

This is called "shooting yourself in the foot!" It never ends well for the shooter.

we've heard this before

GG seems to be good at attracting recs. Protecting them is the next logical step and stables are a big threat, not only to recs but to regulars who play and evolve by themselves without sharing data with others and stuff like that.

Is Russia actually mainly supplying GG with regs? For a site that seems to take any opportunity to hurt professionals it’s actually surprising they didn’t ban all Russians before when they had a rational narrative to do so.

Only in Hollywood movies.

yeah seems weird but upper management was prolly just thinking about all the rake they get from it on paper

well if they did that the pokerok skin would have been killed. it seems like the man of the hour is well connected

I think what many people here don't see is that this is not about potential cheating or abuse.

GG has simply determined that, much like excessive bumhunting in cashgames, stables pooling their knowledge, information and money is too predatory in the MTT world. And they are right.

Many of you here don't seem to remember what PokerStars looked like when they still had HU cash, seating scripts, cartels in HUSNGs and later spins etc. They tried to circumvent it first, tried King of the Hill for cashgames for a while, anonymised HUSNG entries and spins, yet people kept finding ways to exploit these mechanisms to the absolute max.

Now HU is scrapped, midstakes+ cashgames are completely dead and the site is known to be tougher than the rest (even if it might not anymore). They also, admittedly for many reasons, have a tiny player pool now.

Meanwhile, GG is boasting huge numbers, very fishy fields at all stakes and longevity beyond what legacy sites were able to achieve. They even ramp up their rakeback program instead of slashing it, which what Stars had to resort to as a hail mary option.

And there are still many big winners on GG (in MTTs pre-RB, in cash post-RB).

This is a good decision, stables are justifiably furious as they're losing a huge amount of income. But if you want a healthy environment to play in for years to come, this should make you happy.

Couple of HH/note sharing stables on GG continually call ALL my overbet jams on flop (which vs them is now only ever value) - took me a few wtf’s to figure out what was going on initially.

Now it’s just comedy. Guess they don’t all update/synch notes like they are supposed too lol.