It's not very efficient to set ourselves up to receive 1,000 emails from players who want table cap increases when only about 5% of those players would be eligible.

Downward cap movements due to slow play are also automatic.

As stated prior, the only way to move your cap due to request is to request it to be lowered.

There are no firm plans for table caps for SNGs but it has been discussed and is a possibility in 2013. I'm not aware of any discussion of table caps for MTTs.

Oh, OK, I must have missed something somewhere. Sorry about that. Makes sense now you've explained it.

Not that it's a particularly big deal for me personally on cash tables though, as I'm a tourney/SNG player and I was just curious.

Obviously when it comes to SNGs I'd prefer it you didn't cap them at all, especially as the tournament bubble is a time when people deliberately time down as a tactic to try and force other shorties to pay a higher blind so that they can limp into the money at the expense of those others. Now that you no longer offer DoNs, where it was actually a legitimate tactic, I'd prefer it that people who do stall for time are playing as many tables as they can afford.

But if you do go ahead with plans for table caps then please don't do it with a "one-size-fits-all" approach — the particular SNG format makes a huge difference to the number of tables which can be played comfortably. For instance, it's easier to play 25 tables of 180mans than it is to have 15 tables of 6max hypers; in fact I usually only have 9 or 10 tables open for 6max hypers. IMO it is much easier in 180s anyway, and I've played thousands of each format; when I was playing DoNs I used to be able keep up with about 32 tables. I think a SNG cap is going to need a much greater deal of flexibility than cash games, particularly when it comes to grinders who like to mix up the formats they play on a regular basis, and if you start off by imposing limits which are too low then you'll need to be able to respond to requests for changes on a much more frequent basis.

TT

Just out of interest, how many players had their table cap raised to 32?

Fewer than 10.

No table caps on SNGs please!

just downgrade stars to previous version and you can play. after there is update for TN upgrade stars and everything will be fine.

Could u address this pokerstars steve please?

PS steve, can you explain to me, why my friend whom is a resident of Paris, France. Can play on Pokerstars.com and also can go open up an account and play as a different screenname at pokerstars.eu

But me living in Canada currently, can play on pokerstars.com/ but cannot play on poekrstars.eu ?


If you could explain this that would be appreciated.

Thanks

he must be using a vpn, french players/people in france can only play at pokerstars.fr

Can you please add an option to allow you to enter multiple SNGs in drop down window rather than the current process of having to registered in each SNG would save players heaps of time. Much you can do in Zoom where you can select upto 4 tables why cant I do the same with SNGs?

No, I can't, sorry.

Your friend who lives in France should only be able to play on PokerStars.fr. If your friend is doing otherwise, please pass along the userid and we'll investigate straightaway.

HI when are you going to implement auto rebuy and auto add on in sngs and mtts? Its just too many clicks, auto options would be great. *auto rebuy and auto add on without checking those boxes when tourney starts of course.

I'm sure your friend will be well pleased with you if you share his details with Poker Stars. Did you not think of this before you posted?

It is so frustrating not getting a simple 'noted' or 'not gonna happen', just any response, to a suggestion.

+googolplex

Even more so when one not only makes a suggestion for improvement, but thoroughly explains an actual bug causing you to loose money every day, not getting any replies at all. Even though it's been spammed 2-3 times for the last months, but hey, keep on replying only to stupid/less relevant questions.............

Stefan will be back in-thread soon to answer general software questions and suggestions. It's a holiday weekend here.

quite a few of them coming up, Queenie has been ruling over us for a long-time now (60 yaar).

can you please make it possible with the NOVA theme to click the hand number of the last hand when there is no active play at the table?
It disapears as soon as my opponent leaves.

How long has this rule been in effect?

It was a gent I saw on a training video which was dated I believe in 2010.

was a mtt training video, and he was grinding sunday majors on pokerstars.com and also was grinding the 100k or w/e major or pokerstars.eu

And I was like what!!!! Must be nice to grind majors on two diff pokerstars skins.

Then realized it was forbidden



I dont want to be a rat. You must understand.

I didnt know you were PS steve?

LOL

PokerStars.eu did not exist in 2010. It was launched earlier this year.

Pokerstars.fr was launched in Summer of 2010.

Players residing OUTSIDE of France but not in Italy who have European bank accounts can play on both PokerStars.com and PokerStars.fr. It is important to note that these two sites have COMPETELY DIFFERENT player pools, totally segregated, so players do not have to be worried about playing the same opponent on the same site with two different usernames as a result.

Yes ok that makes sense then thanks Steve. So If I have a second residence or rather say room part time in Europe, as long as i have a european bank account then I can play on pokerstars.eu correct?

ty for the timely response.

Wrong, pokerstars.eu is only for certain countries, most of Europe is still on .com. pokerstars.fr is the one that anyone with a European bank account can play on.

Why would you even want to play on .eu if you're in Canada? You can play on .com, which is pretty much exactly the same. Really, the only noticeable difference is that I can't click on links to pokerstars.com because they just redirect to pokerstars.eu/use_the_default_language_for_my_country_instead_of _the_language_I_chose/

Oh, and there were a couple of reload bonuses the rest of the world didn't get.

+1, although I believe you can still access Instant Hand History through the options menu on that table this would be a much simpler solution.

No.

PokerStars.eu and PokerStars.com share player pools. You can only play on one or the other. Additionally, PokerStars.eu is only available to residents of certain countries.

PokerStars.fr and PokerStars.it are each separate sites with their own separate player pools. PokerStars.it only allows play from those with Italian tax identification numbers that are typically only held by Italian citizens and long term residents. PokerStars.fr allows most players with European bank accounts to play.

PokerStars.eu is very, very different from each of PokerStars.fr and PokerStars.it.