So why did a MOD my post into this thread about Pokerstars? This has NOTHING to do with pokerstars.. What joke ..

I agree, your post should be moved to beginner questions.

I believe this is already in effect on the .FR/ES/PT skin. If you read the article they plan to roll this out towards then end of 2018 on the .com/EU site. These changes are always tested on segregated markets first then rolled out worldwide shortly after.

How is it wildly misleading? Pokerstars intends to implement the limit worldwide. That is consistent with the title of the thread. The title doesn't say the limit has been implemented now. The title is not misleading at all.

Just Seat Me is on frespt, not 6-table limit.

At any reasonable stake they did. People here are just ignorant or misinformed. Most of the day there aren't even enough games running to play the amount of tables being quoted ITT (200nl+, maybe even 100). Someone playing 20 tables is going to get ****ing crushed and there is no insentive to breakeven or play with a small WR because Stars took that away as well.

IDK why so many people feel the need to comment with essentially no knowledge of what they are talking about. It's a money grab by Stars and nothing more. If they wanted to speed up the games they could just reduce the available timebank on all tables. If this isn't an option for whatever reason then create some tables with a super quick timebank like they have on 888 and microgaming. 888 reduced table count to 6 a long time ago and there was no improvement in "quality" of games.

Any positive effects for some regs will be unintended.

More rake is better.

**** the regs.

Etc.

Only about ten years too late.

I played 8 to 9 tables before people started migrating to zoom tables, less than that and it gets pretty boring and slow for me. I guess 4 tables zoom is equivalent to 10 regular tables or so, but I have a lower winrate there.

I'm sure amayastars have done the calculations. People who multitable more than 6 tables at lowstakes cashout often, if they start playing zoom with lower winrate they'll cashout a smaller amount so they can rake more of the money that is floating around. More money for amayastars pockets, less money cashed out of the site.

just another way for stars to show the regs they dont care about them.

Where am I going?

i always got space for u on china mate! already have 15 accounts loaded and ready to go for you!

If only there was a way to measure those things. Like you could for example weight longer delays more than a lot of short delays. Like I don't know, for example let's try to square the time of delay and then take an average of those squares. Then people who have a lot of annoying long breaks will stand out even if they act quickly on average...

imagine the wr king10 gets when 6tabling

Summary

Pokerstars Client in France/Spain/Portugal = Seat Me Lobby/Blind Lobby testing Phase

Pokerstars Client in Italy = 6 Table Limit testing Phase, Seat Me added soon


Pokerstars is planning to roll those out in .com/.eu by the end of the year, if their testing expectations are met.



Thoughts:

6 Table Limit is mainly targeting professional Players from NL2-25 from 3rdWorld/EasternEuroSemiRussians.

Im not sure if this still is a thing but with the old VIP System even NL5 was totally overrun by 3rd world nit bots.

Game Quality should improve on Micro Stakes, for Recs.


I still dont understand why there is no Country segregation for Micro Stakes, New Players shouldnt be forced to play Nit Pros from 3rd World Countries on NL10.
Good Players from 1st World wouldnt play 10NL, so New Players could learn and have fun.



Seat Me is cancer.

Yeah, since hardly anyone mass-tables above 100NL, it's mainly going to be 2NL/5NL players called Igor and Sergei that will be negatively affected by these changes, when they are rolled out on the .com client.
I haven't looked at Stars for a while, or booted up TablescanTurbo, but last time I did (about 10 months ago), there was always about a dozen nano-grinders from Eastern Europe playing 20+ tables of 2NL. I doubt anyone will miss them when they're gone.

Plenty regs playing 100+ are going to be severely negatively effected. If Stars reasons for the table cap were true, could they not have reduced to it say 10? Then checked up on the situation and made more changes if need be? Reduced the time bank also maybe??

There is far less mass tabling going on now than 3-4 years ago, yet apparently it has become an issue now.

I don’t why I’m even wasting my time tinking about this as the main aim here to to stop regs winning as much and increase the cut for Stars. I have a 4bb winrate on Stars midstakes (that I have worked really hard) this year and the amount I have won is almost exactly equal to what I have paid in rake. With less than 1% back from rewards.

If there is no dream of grinding it up then there is no cash games. You are bleeding us dry and will eventually kill the site. That is the plan of course. I hope your ****ing sports book fails.

the only reg I can think of who somewhat gets ****ed by this is king10, nobody else

edit: and well I had skipped a few posts but apparently the micro stakes may get better

Sorry but I think this is nonsense. People multistake, plenty of people will be ****ed.

well maybe... I just haven't seen many players playing over 6 tables at midstakes and above, I personally play 3 sites so it won't change much at all for me given I never have more than 6 tables on stars

anyway online poker is doomed so we'll have to deal with what we get and make the most of it

They've probably reduced the number of tables to try to eliminate table selection. Otherwise everyone would load up 24 tables at the start of a session and pick the best ones.

pretty sure it's gonna be the other way around, since people can only have 6 tables they will make sure they are playing good ones

Hopefully no where lol.

You get punished for table hopping. And you can't see the players until you are dealt a hand imo.

thought we were talking about the 6 tables cap not the seat me thing

So you just play a round and if it's filled with regs you move on. What's so hard about that? I do that now without table caps and seat me now.