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If you go to a restaurant and pay £25 for a steak on a Tuesday then find the price has gone up to £40 by Friday, the customer has every right to talk to management about the price rise. The customer can say look, as good as the steak was, I'm not paying £40 for it - can you not lower the price ? If they say no, then we go to a new restaurant and they miss out on a customer.

Customers should never roll over and just accept price increases (which effectively is what the revised pokerstars system is) - they should at least let their voices be heard. No one got anywhere by being mice who just accepted everything that is thrown at them.

It's more like the steak costs 2500 but you were winning 4000 a pop in bread-eating contests so you never really really contemplated why on earth the steak costs 2500 to begin with. Sure, it tastes excellent and the dining hall is exquisite and the service is spectacular but goddamn.

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12-03-2018 , 09:55 AM

#2277

7OAD

banned

Join Date: Apr 2017 Posts: 500

It's interesting that people still think Stars at all can have moral appeals made to them, as if ownership cares.

Stars is going to squeeze you as much as they can, they DGAF about any arguments against this.

The people in charge of Stars are literally trying to suck all the money out of the player pool available and then they're selling the company, they couldn't care less about long term effects of their behavior.

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12-03-2018 , 11:01 AM

#2278

dhubermex

old hand

Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,672

News today that PokerStars will NOT be offering its (award winning) Stars Rewards scheme in the Sweden market once it migrates that customer base over. Just goes to show how quickly lawmakers/regulators are becoming aware of these mechanisms and how predatory they are against all consumers.

https://twitter.com/pokerprojones/st...51116122243072

Here's further clarification from TSG's Liam Casey: https://twitter.com/betonliamcasey/s...61863049027584

Last edited by dhubermex; 12-03-2018 at 11:07 AM.

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12-03-2018 , 01:32 PM

#2279

Grothendieck

enthusiast

Join Date: Jan 2018 Posts: 88

I haven't seen any sort of notification for the Christmas promotion going on within the client. Are they excluding players they've assigned low "player social credit" to?

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12-05-2018 , 07:42 AM

#2280

NoSurprises

old hand

Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,869

Anyone noticing chests are not being downgraded? I don't play on stars so much. Opened a 4,500 chest last week then opened another 4,500 today, yet my next one is another 4,500 and not a lower chest as advertised on the website. Ive emailed for clarification on this.

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12-05-2018 , 07:43 AM

#2281

NoSurprises

old hand

Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,869

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Originally Posted by Grothendieck

I haven't seen any sort of notification for the Christmas promotion going on within the client. Are they excluding players they've assigned low "player social credit" to?

Not seeing it either. The only challenge appearing in the window is to play to the high roller tournaments which I don't go near. Nothing close to what they offered in previous years.

Saying that I dont see anything on party either.

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12-05-2018 , 11:45 AM

#2282

Grothendieck

enthusiast

Join Date: Jan 2018 Posts: 88

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Originally Posted by NoSurprises

They definitely do have something going on but seemingly it is only for "invited" players.

https://www.pokerstars.com/poker/pro...tmas-calendar/

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12-10-2018 , 07:07 PM

#2283

cashy

we have welbeck

Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 29,767

Had a downswing, 5 days ago I deposited some and my chests became very reasonable (platin 10500)
Now, 5 days later, platin changed to 95000(!!!), pretty ridiculous

so depositing doesn't help much at all, only losing seems to do the trick

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12-11-2018 , 08:12 AM

#2284

hawaiisteve

centurion

Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 160

After all my bitching and moaning suddenly my red chests are 170 today... breezed thru em and my first blue chest is 170 also! hahaha
Hope this "bug" in their stupid software lasts for awhile...

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12-11-2018 , 10:20 AM

#2285

hawaiisteve

centurion

Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 160

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Originally Posted by hawaiisteve

After all my bitching and moaning suddenly my red chests are 170 today... breezed thru em and my first blue chest is 170 also! hahaha
Hope this "bug" in their stupid software lasts for awhile...

Well, it didnt last. Second blue chest went to 385 but i cant compain. Its still much better than the 1250 it was just yesterday

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12-11-2018 , 01:09 PM

#2286

coon74

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 10,684

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Originally Posted by cashy

so depositing doesn't help much at all, only losing seems to do the trick

My experience confirms this too.

A silver lining of this implicit cashback on losses is that it reduces the variance slightly, and of course, that it keeps unlucky folks a bit more motivated to try again.

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12-11-2018 , 01:36 PM

#2287

getmeoffcompletely

old hand

Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 1,670

Anyone else opening empty chests? When I open my chests only the green bar fills up a bit. No cash, no tmoney, no starscoins.

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12-11-2018 , 06:14 PM

#2288

coon74

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 10,684

Yes, it's a known animation bug that's over a month old. In reality, Starscoins are credited as usual, afaik.

Did your coin balance increase according to the My Stars tab? That's also the place where you can open an earned chest if it's not accessible through the progress bar.

Last edited by coon74; 12-11-2018 at 06:19 PM.

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12-12-2018 , 05:08 AM

#2289

Colin_Piddle

The Colonial

Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 11,807

Anyone got three keys yet for the christmas challenge? I only have 1 so far.

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12-12-2018 , 10:28 AM

#2290

coon74

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 10,684

I've earned chests every day this month and got 3 keys on the 4th, 7th and 10th, iirc.

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12-12-2018 , 02:40 PM

#2291

heat555

grinder

Join Date: Jul 2014 Posts: 543

Do you have to opt in, or what? I've been playing every day, but didn't get anything so far.

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12-12-2018 , 02:56 PM

#2292

coon74

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 10,684

The Christmas promotion is invitational. If you have it at all in the Challenges window, then yes, you need to click 'Start'. Otherwise, you haven't been invited.

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12-12-2018 , 05:23 PM

#2293

Colin_Piddle

The Colonial

Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 11,807

Be interesting to see what is in the major one you open with the three keys on christmas day. I'm not expecting much.

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12-13-2018 , 04:25 AM

#2294

lefty rosen

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,861

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Originally Posted by Colin_Piddle

Be interesting to see what is in the major one you open with the three keys on christmas day. I'm not expecting much.

By the way are you guys winning, bust even or losing players?

I didn't get an invite and had my red chest double and it makes it near impossible for me to ever move up and get a blue chest unless I went up in stakes as I don't put in any volume by hard core players standards.

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12-14-2018 , 06:05 PM

#2295

coon74

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 10,684

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Originally Posted by lefty rosen

By the way are you guys winning, bust even or losing players?

I'd been inactive for a few months before my late November return, hadn't won much since the spring, had had to withdraw most of the roll in late May. Perhaps a bonus factor towards my reputation as a rec was that I'd been a Spin & Go Max semi-reg since the 2nd day of the game's existence, with hyperaggressive BRM (and getting ~20% rakeback during my losing months).

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12-14-2018 , 07:39 PM

#2296

Colin_Piddle

The Colonial

Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 11,807

Anyone else get an email about a Christmas Cracker promotion? Deposit $70 and you get a cracker. I want to know what is in these crackers.

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12-14-2018 , 09:08 PM

#2297

coon74

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 10,684

I didn't get an email (iirc), but my bonus section shows a Cracker offer of a random prize up to $20K for a $200 deposit. So the cracker content is random. The previous offer also required a $200 deposit two months ago, to get $50 worth of Spin & Go(al) tickets.

The offer size likely depends on the history of deposit sizes, just like at 888.

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12-15-2018 , 02:55 AM

#2298

rakemeplz

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 12,648

"So the cracker content is random."

I mean there's gotta be some sort of probability etc. to it.

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12-15-2018 , 09:18 AM

#2299

hawaiisteve

centurion

Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 160

OK guys. After all the crap I went thru after my silver chests were raised from 1950 to 13500 and I had them manually downgrade me to red, I worked my way back to silver and its 1950 again.

Hope it lasts. The Christmas chests have been very good. Got $6 a couple of times after completing blue chests (450) and $30 from my first silver (1950)!

If your at one of the upper levels you might consider asking them to move you down manually. No guarantee, but maybe it will lower your requirements???