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Originally Posted by Josem
It's true that I'm not here for the "everything PokerStars does is evil" pity party. I'm not inclined to incoherently rant that PokerStars is the devil, and get angry at people who look at things in a moderate and sensible manner.
On one hand, I recognise that this is only NVG, but on the other hand, this forum used to disdain this sort of nutty virtue signalling.
Almost every sentence I've written in this thread should be really boring and basic stuff - obviously people play poker for different reasons, and any decent consideration of any new game should consider more factors more than just "the rake is high". It says a lot about other people that they're just throwing generic and boring insults for this sort of obvious and boring posts of mine here.
Ok Josem
So here is way this game is terrible. Whether it is casino games or sportsbeting or lotery people play to win whether it is money/some stuff or just chips and satisfaction of beating your opponents and having more chips than them.
Here we have a game that offer very few winning moments with a lot of spots being splited with rake being 2x the normal holdem game. So the fundamental problem with this game and why it is going to die very fast is simple because it is flawed.
Your possible winrate is lower than in holdem at the same time Stars are raking you 2x as heavily.
So Stars just introduced the game that it is impossible to win both in the long run or in the short run.
Firstly becayse Recreational player can't really get lucky and run up his stack and cash out. There is just very few winning moments for recreational players.
And for the pros the game is unbeatable in the long term (or even in medium term).
I believe this was exactly the same problem with beat the clock. People won't play games where they basically have no opportunity to have a winning session....
Even casino games are based on a model where there is huge bad beat jackpot so recreational players play with the hope to hit it. So there is this minisculue chance to win it big and get it all back plus some extra.
Here you have the game where both recreational players and pros will just slowly bleed their money.
This is just increadibly dumb design.