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View Poll Results: What to do about 5k and 10k ante tables?

I want them back to the regular format

58 86.57%

I'd like a table-starter for the ante tables

5 7.46%

I'm fine with zoom-only

4 5.97%

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09-19-2014 , 09:49 PM

GoGetaRealJob

QuadMasterSupreme

Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 7,072

Many here seem to want the 25/50 and 50/100 ante tables back to normal (non-zoom), so you can express that desire via this poll. I also added the table-starter option.

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09-20-2014 , 08:38 AM

d2themfi

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Originally Posted by d2themfi

Fwiw last year I had 35k hands at 25/50 and 50/100 ante tables, 24k of them were 4 handed or less, meaning the majority of the play on these tables will not involve seat scripters taking seats unfairly. It will mostly just be a group of 5-10 regs who like to play HU/SH deep, who atm have to play ftp if they want to (no idea why these games didnt shift over to FTP, but for whatever reason people dont like FTP as much I guess)

-also that was only for about 6 months, and I didnt grind a lot.. Stars is probably leaving 500-1mm$ of rake a year on the table not having those tables.. and like I said fish really arent playing those tables regularly, so its mostly just regs passing money back and forth, not fish going bust all the time

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09-30-2014 , 11:27 AM

blopp

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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 3,756

Good post d2.

Seems like there is very little reasons to not give this a go on the ante tables to see if it can spark some more action.

There is definitive a few fun players that seems to want to play normal ante tables (up to 2k PLO) that almost never sit zoom + ability for those regs that want to battle.

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10-03-2014 , 05:40 PM

yrmom

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Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 3,921

Just chiming in to say that stars never provided the reason why they didn't explicitly ban and take measures against seating scripts. Zoom is seems like a clear money grab at smaller stakes, but at 5/10 ante+ all I can remember is mostly regwars with some rare fish joining.

Last I remember it was spring when they said that they did not plan on implementing software measures against scripting, and that they did not want to provide reasons why (they only reasons I can guess is to prevent script writers from gaining an up on the software? or that it would expose flaws in the software? IDK)

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10-12-2014 , 11:32 AM

d2themfi

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not sure when the meetings are, but just want to bump this so its not forgotten. its 50/58 in the poll, and theres no good counter argument against bringing them back. I know of a few people who do not like playing zoom (and rarely play), who used to play a ton on the ante tables (and still would)

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10-12-2014 , 12:25 PM

GoGetaRealJob

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Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 7,072

they start on wednesday, I'll make sure they are aware of this poll

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10-13-2014 , 10:48 AM

d2themfi

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Thank you

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10-14-2014 , 03:28 PM

Ansky

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Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 17,523

I would say bring them back, but don't take away the 25/50 ante pool since that actually runs sometimes. I play more than almost anyone and I have like 30 hands at 50/100 ante this year, so I see no reason for that pool to exist.

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10-14-2014 , 03:39 PM

GoGetaRealJob

QuadMasterSupreme

Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 7,072

I won't suggest taking away the 25/50 zoom ante, and I doubt they would go along with that even if I did. Will just ask for regular tables to be reintroduced for 5k and 10k ante

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