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Originally Posted by 8gameisfun
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.
yeah the sad thing is that we as a poker community just fail to make sure the games have some longevity.
There will always be a few that are looking to use the most predatory means to bolster their pockets short term.
right around the time the cartels took over i just stopped playing. I was very vocal on here in explaining how bad of an idea the implementation of cartels is and that this will be the death of heads up. People didn't want to listen and look where we are at now.
I dont think there is a single husng reg left who doesn't bot or use rta.
From my perception it always seemed as if the russian regs were the most toxic and just straight up bad for a game. The stables turn their attention to a speciffic game type churn out hundreds of competent players, share hand histories and so on and in relatively little time the games get sucked dry.
Now this CEO dude sounds like a total douche but honestly it feels like you have brought this on yourself.