Thanks for posting this, Allen.
In a vacuum, I think the announcement is major news, great for players, great for Stars, and overall a good move.
The problem is the "too little too late" opinion that a lot of veteran players and those who agree with them are going to have. Again in a vacuum, I thought the press release was appropriate and stayed completely away from being negative towards high volume or for-profit players. But it doesn't address the Supernova/SNE "elephant in the room," which imo is the major root cause of ill will towards Amaya/Stars Group.
Also, the media coverage of this "major announcement" seemed to be shot out of a cannon. Several Stars-friendly sites had a story up within minutes and were sharing it liberally on social media until Joey Ingram got on Twitter and reminded his followers why all the hype isn't necessarily justified.
https://twitter.com/Joeingram1/statu...08552166932480
Isaac Haxton hasn't posted on Twitter about it yet, but really I don't know if there's a whole lot to add as Joey pretty much summed it all up nicely in his Tweets.
It's a difficult situation imo b/c major personalities along with forums have earned a far higher level of distribution and trust from both regs & recs than most of the affiliate media sites combined if you don't count Stars' PokerNews network.
Amaya/Stars Group has seriously (some would say maliciously) marginalized a lot of individuals and companies who either work directly for them or have collaborated with them. Pretty much across the board the Stars-friendly "media" coverage mentioned the Amaya/TSG 2015 decision to steal from high volume players only in passing, and defined it along the lines of PR difficulties, making up for poor decisions, reconciling, etc.
That was to be expected of course, but players of all skill levels are becoming much more informed about the industry and continue to flock to content producers who don't have such glaring conflicts of interest when it comes to looking out for players. That's the way I see it at least.
Last edited by dhubermex; 12-17-2017 at 12:21 AM.