Exactly which part makes no sense? Seems like the best solution to PTR. There isn't really much else Stars can possibly do.

Colored notes which can be seen in the lobby please.

Stop/loss, so i can be sure that i dont lose all my money when my account is hacked. and 4 tiltcontrol.

do this quick

cool, now when I tile tables having 2 monitors it tiles them to main monitor.

Hi guys,

Just a quick reminder about this: we'll shortly be making Euro accounts and tournaments available, and we're looking for players to take part in beta testing.

You need to speak English and be able to deposit in Euro. As an incentive for helping, we'll be running tournaments with added money here and there (although everything will be small stakes of course).

If you're interested, please PM your PokerStars User ID to me, or send it to pokermanager@pokerstars.com.

Thanks,

Alex S
PokerStars Poker Room Management Team

Please stop popping the morning news up over my tables.

so players will be able to sit down with euros to the table?

Yes, eventually we will have ring games and tournaments in both US Dollars and Euro.

Will the rake cap be 3Euro's or the equivalent of 3$?

So you will be splitting the players? Can`t you make regular tournaments be for both currencies based on current rates? I have no clue how this is going to work. I read earlier that you can`t really transfer money between your different currency account. This sucks because you can`t play all the tournaments you want and have to stick to one currency? So this will make playing sng-s almost impossible unless there are 200k+ players online because they will be filling twice as slow?

I think they do this to be able to let the .IT players in later on.

this is not the case im sure

Because they just bought a database?



I think a lot of people would like to be able to change their name , i would even pay FPP's for it.

<Dont like your name anymore ?, want more privacy? , want action on HU tables despite PTR? for 10.000fpp's you can buy a new screenname.>

A rake schedule hasn't been decided at this point, but the former option seems unlikely.

No. PokerStars.COM players will be able to keep accounts in, and play games in, any currency that we support.

There will be nothing to stop players who usually play in US Dollars from registering into a Euro tournament, and vice versa, and players will be able to transfer money between currencies very easily.

In addition, we will be very careful when rolling out games in other currencies so as not to affect the liquidity of existing offerings.

If this is true, why have separate games? Crypto used to do this with Euro, pounds and dollars and it really sucked. Admittedly they raked to three of whatever currency the game was, but it just added three times as many levels that had to keep players.

Having cash be totally liquid between a single game currency and varying account currencies is really the way to go.

what about shortcut keys for buttons for active table? I play limit and it would be much faster with keyboard.

I see your point, but I remember from my own experiences that when I first ventured into playing online poker (in 2002 I think), I was quite put off by the fact that all the tables were in US Dollars. I don't think I even knew the exchange rate between USD and GBP at the time. I didn't care about US Dollars, I just wanted to play in pounds and not worry about conversion rates.

From our research and in my own experience, this is a very common feeling. Breaking down this mental barrier, and getting more players to try real money, is very important.

We will be very careful when adding new games and tournaments in other currencies so as not to harm overall liquidity.

I humbly think this is a massive mistake.

I recently switched to PS only instead of PS + FTP because i don't trust FTP anymore. The fact is that PS has an incredible support, and respects the integrity of the games and players a lot (lol at people who want to be able to change their scrennames all the time !).
Still, i think that PS needs serious software / features improvements, and those things really need to be done before even thinking to have EUR accounts / tables.
By the way, i'm french and i have understood what follows a long time ago. If you're serious about poker, you have to be okay with this :
This game is played in US $
90 % of the available poker books are in english.
90 % of the available poker videos are in english.
90 % of the available poker forums are in english.
Etc.
This game is played in US $ (this is not a typo)

No need for EUR currency / tournaments / cash game tables. Period.

neekola

You're not going to manage to make an identical rake structure across games, unless you're much smarter than I am. So you're going to see striation not so much by natural currency but by how much attention people are paying. Nits will avoid the higher-raked games, making them softer. Essentially it's a hidden rake increase on fish and people who game select. I can't see how that isn't terrible for the games, no matter how much attention you pay to the liquidity.

Please Please Please don't go the way Crypto sites were and have games in different currencies. I'm from the UK and have never had any mental barriers playing in dollars.

As someone has pointed out all that happens is you dilute the player base by having $100NL/£100NL/EUR100NL etc. It makes no sense. Let people hold their bankroll in their own currency and just convert it to dollars when they join a table and convert it back at the same rate when they leave. Simples!

In my opinion mixed currency tables are a very backward move, I hated it at Crypto.

I'm interested to see how you solve the rake problems too. Crypto robbed players on the £ tables.

I'm honestly speechless that you are thinking about going down this road.

Wow what a horrible idea.

yeah i think this is a terrible idea and really hope stars doesn't follow through with it. i don't know much about it but it seems you are splitting the player pool for the sake of fixing a minor inconvenience.

please don't do this

fwiw I vote no on the euro dollar tables

Hell, you just gave them another reason to do it...

I also think having different currencies in all the different games is a bad idea.

Having said that, I know Stars has been working on this for quite some time and there's no way anybody here is going to convince them to terminate the project.