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It is worse than others indeed, but they have a huge database of players from pokerstars and the one they bought from fulltilt. They just need to capture a tiny percentage of them for casino and sportsbook to make it worthwhile I assume. That's why the profit is going down from poker and increasing in other areas.

Good point made about zoom. If zoom numbers increase they could care less about not working active lists, if not it's just another shot on the foot by pokerstars like so many before.

yes true maybe they dont think the future of poker is that bright so they trying to take as much out of it asap while slowly transitioning in other gambling areas.

but yes i forgot they actually have a huge database of players from buying fulltilt, pkr.

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10-19-2020 , 11:17 AM

#102

Slugant

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lolol last hour there was only one 2,5/5 table running, brilliant move stars!

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10-19-2020 , 11:27 AM

#103

Esa_Perse

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Originally Posted by Slugant

lolol last hour there was only one 2,5/5 table running, brilliant move stars!

Your hate towards stars is quite funny. Do you keep the client open just so to see how they are doing? You post over 10% of the msgs in stars threads. You need to get over the fact they removed the rb over five years ago.

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10-20-2020 , 07:24 AM

#104

Slugant

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lol 1 500nl table running is not about rb from 5 years ago, its about the current waiting list system..

but why you hate my opinion, its quite funny. the fact that you check what % of posts i hold in this thread. you need to get over the fact that i dislike their changes and post about it.

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10-20-2020 , 09:16 AM

#105

TreadLightly

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I can only assume their main goal was push more and more players to play zoom instead of reg tables

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10-20-2020 , 09:55 AM

#106

Slugant

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Originally Posted by TreadLightly

I can only assume their main goal was push more and more players to play zoom instead of reg tables

i dont follow zoom enough tbh, but is this strategy working? are zoom numbers increasing?

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10-20-2020 , 10:00 AM

#107

TreadLightly

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Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 3,711

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Originally Posted by Slugant

i dont follow zoom enough tbh, but is this strategy working? are zoom numbers increasing?

Hard to tell, it is the time of year where 500z does not run 24/7 until winter numbers pick up again

Haven't seen some regs in awhile, can only assume they are putting more volume on other sites most likely

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10-20-2020 , 10:46 AM

#108

cephei

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Originally Posted by Slugant

but why you hate my opinion, its quite funny. the fact that you check what % of posts i hold in this thread. you need to get over the fact that i dislike their changes and post about it.

it is indeed quite funny that you complain about stars on a daily basis for the last 5 years but still play there, as if a stars employee is forcing you at gunpoint.

it's not like you play high stakes badugi, you can find good nl 50 games anywhere.

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10-20-2020 , 05:22 PM

#109

Slugant

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you're reading into stuff
i put in under 2k hands on stars this month, i dont feel forced to play there, i never said i couldnt find good 50nl games on stars
i simply dislike almost every change they made since amaya is running the show and even though i am not that active on stars i hate to see it deteriorating

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10-22-2020 , 12:49 AM

#110

sandr1x

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If I'm not mistaken, it's flutter running the show now, not amaya.

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12-04-2020 , 03:04 AM

#111

sirin

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Played on Stars for the first time since these changes were implemented, 200nl. Its really confusing and much more difficult to get games going.

I start tables HU and 3 handed FWIW, I'm willing to play whatever games they want me to, but its just so confusing, and not even knowing which table you have to give up if you don't keep track of the names is insane (that is the case right?)

Curious to hear what other regs think of this system but so far I'm just confused and frustrated by it.

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12-04-2020 , 03:56 AM

#112

XtraScratch8

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Originally Posted by sirin

Ya, I didn’t mind it for a short while. One thing I liked was that it seemed to get more euro currency reg tables going.

At this point now though, I just hate it, mostly for the reasons you’ve mentioned. It just makes getting a few reg tables set up and ready to go a huge pain in the ass and sometimes it even take 5-10 minutes to get on your first table because people are trying to hard to get on their first table.

Overall, I give it a solid D-, and that’s probably being generous.

Have mostly transitioned to zoom, which is probably what Stars is hoping for anyway. Tricky ****ers.

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12-04-2020 , 10:22 AM

#113

Slugant

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volume has dropped substantially since this new WL-system has been implemented it seems, so that tells enough about how much people like it

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12-04-2020 , 08:53 PM

#114

sirin

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That's a real shame, I much prefer playing reg tables, I'll keep trying to work with it for now but I can imagine just cashing out and playing elsewhere if it gets to be too annoying.