Go to the 888 thread in internet poker and you can see for yourself. Its non stop complaints about people scripting, some of whom are and some are just joining games fast. Then its 888s job to investigate every case and do their best to enforce their rules, which in most cases results in more criticism and over/under enforcement.

There are plenty of instances of players getting a warning from scripting when they are actually innocent, and even more instances of blatant scripting that goes unpunished for months, if ever.

So basically 888 has their staff waste loads of time to investigate the banning of their own players which doesn't increase their revenue. So who is actually happier in this system? Non scripting regs aren't happy because scripts exist no matter what, scripting regs obv dont like a ban, recs dont see any change in the system, and 888 support is flooded with complaints. Go play on 888 yourself, join a random 2/4 table and see how fast the table fills up. Keep in mind this is a site that "banned scripts".

i really dont get it. to not be able to gameselect will have drastic effect on breakeven or marginal winning regs. they will suddenly become losing players, most of them quit or change site. stars will end up only with recreationals and big winners. how will this end up? of course recreationals will lose at even faster pace end winners will take more money out of pool. how is this better for eco system is beyond me.

fyp

this site is filled with people who have zero clue how the poker economy works,have no clue how important it is for whales to have fun and think they're owed something in poker all while being winning players. knowing what's good or bad for poker and being a solid winning players are mutually exclusive.

He's probably at the job centre

This is good, must-move tables to access waiting lists would be even better.

For ecosystem/experience, it's all just tinkering at the edges compared to what's needed; multi-table count vastly reduced.

The bottom line is that BB/hour needs to be closer to BB/100. Big earners must be playing big stakes with big variance, that's what they're supposed to be selling.

Just got an email from PokerStars.es to say that the Seat Me seating process will be implemented next Tuesday.

Personally, I don´t think that Spain has that much of a problem with bumhunting or seating scripts. Sure it exists, but I don´t see how PokerStars can get an accurate assessment of how effective the new process is with such a small number of players "abusing the system" in a relatively small player pool.

In before "Following the successful implementation of our Seat Me seating process in Spain ... ..."

yeah i personally believe they already decided to implement it on .com , they are just making this move to look like they have some evidence Seat me is a good thing, it killed ftp games.

I said I assume there is scripting. Maybe I'm just too old and stupid but there isn't any proper waitlist right and to see who's at a table you have to be automatically seated?

I can't see how I've said anything incorrect but apologies if I did.

Games do seem softer in general on there though and I tend to be able to get a seat a lot.


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This, people who have no idea speak of bumhunters/people who use seating scripts the same way as they view fish, the reality is that in 2017 someone beating 400nl+ has put in a ton of work and is simply maximizing his ev by using the tools that are available.

This is terrible news for anyone who currently plays <400nl for a living.

That is the exact segment that should never have existed; at least not as opponents of Western fish.

They don't offer enough variance to be a valid part of the poker economy, and that's why it is struggling.

Another step toward the ultimate goal: Make Poker an unbeatable casino game.

Exactly a fish can seat and sometimes the table doesn't even fill, nobody is using seating scripts. I saw for example Neymar play NL 200 and it was only 5 handed.
And HUSNG never run.

As usual the problem isnt the scripts, its the ***** russians and the lack of government regulation. When people are held accountable for their actions, they keep in line, even avoiding grey areas.

Can be seen on any regulated site, except party.fr/winamax as one has people renting their accounts to russians and the other accepts anyone.

how would big winners end up being small one when they will be playing worse opponents?

Why does Stars even offer the option to run it twice? They are able to rake more right?

Wouldn't it be better for the "ecosystem" if you could only run it once?

Isn't it raked the same?

I imagine tables last longer running it twice? Which would equal more rake

Im not rly playing anymoar and also this doesnt really come as a surprise. Im moar surprised it took them this long. Its also only another bandaid.
The problem w poker these days isnt seat selection, the main problem w poker is that there are too many regs. As long as they arent adressing this things will go downhill for anybody no matter wat

Only works if the penalty to people sitting out is huge, long time w/o joining new table, or paying huge amount of antes, idk what , but has to be big .

I would vote something like 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 24 hours for hopping tables after X amount of times.

this are great for the games, games on ftp was a lot better before the merge even with less tabs games always run

way better than stars and the tables with 22 players list waiting and people refusing to play

games on unibet are unbeateble or pp? i abandon my ftp acc after merge with stars and the thousands of bumhenting games

in other words cheating ,helping to make the games boring as hell and chasing fish off

This makes no sense. Systems that reward seat scripting will reward the best game selectors. Systems that level the game selection playing field will reward the best players. If this change is implemented well there will be more money to win because fish will enjoy playing more without being harried by bumhunters.