Pokerstars rep,

https://www.pokerstars.in/

^^ I mean this just won't cut it for players who have been playing on .com for 11 years.

Less than 1 month, can you give us more info on the types of games you will offer, MTT buy-ins and GTDs?

You make threads for SCOOP and WCOOP and Turbo series months in advance.

Can we get a glimpse on what you will be offering esp from MTT perspective.

We already got info on Tax structure that you have to follow.

Which countries are allowed in this pool?

Only Indian Playerpool

'Only' 1.5 billion people

Ok, minus the underaged, but not all of them, i would assume

People are going a bit too wild. Yes we will all miss the big SM where we all have the worst ROIs (at least I do) but there were 40,000 players on .ES and it's their SCOOP series (got a 2nd missed the title mandatory humble brag) and .COM had 99K. The 4 most popular sites in India at that exact moment had 4000 players during non peak hours (not counting some who might be exclusively on Stars, 888 if it still exists.

ETA: lol I actually did not even look at one big site adda52 which would have easily put the total number of players at 6K-ish

There is no way Stars cannot consolidate the existing segregated player pool and size up 3x at least.

There are people who don't even understand how good this can be for us - currently we get to huge guarantees because every tournament is unlimited rebuys and we get uptop like 40K+ ez, consolidation of players on one site will increase the GTDs and we know stars are gonna have smth like they do on .ES where there are a lot more 2-3 re-entry tournaments, no sngs, decent cash traffic and 'scheduled sngs' like 3 euro 2R1A with no GTD but usually tops up at 200ish Euro for win.

If we can get close to this schedule, and I believe we will, I am not gonna miss Stars.com.



These last 3ish weeks are going to be awesome though. I am making a PG&C thread for it

Majority young people. We are getting sports leagues tailored like the US and UK, subtle ads for fantasy drafts and ads for iphone stock trading (all comes under speculative income which for 'skill based games' might get lowered).

Cliffs: Booming poker landscape, soft games, trending interest in sports betting......but but but **** we gonna miss the "thrill of poker" because we'll be closed to the 80% rest of world and a lower percentage if we count countries where Poker is totally banned. We are a ****ing huge percentage when it comes to potential poker customer worldwide figures

I never had high hopes for ps.in, but this has turned out to be such a huge disappointment. very few tournies to begin with. even the normal speed ones have a faster structure than on ps.com ..
they are already cutting back on guarantees just 2-3 days in, just because they are falling slightly short. should have stuck with it and attracted more players to each game.. !

Reg speed Tournaments on Spartan with more runners and unlimited re-entries last 1hr less than PS India 'Turbos'

Just because it is labelled in a fashion (mainly Indian tourneys where Deepstack tournies end in bare 5 hrs) doesn't mean you can't just objectively analyse the structure and see you will make more money on Stars in the long run.

Give it a week man. They will get the right structures and GTDs down when the player pool leans towards their side and you could mass table the best software 2nd day of it's opening....

Who wants to pile in 20 re-entries with false labels and keep entering the tournament with degraded equity when you can fire 20 smaller GTDs that are going to rise.

Stars is a proper business so no one will ever be fully satisfied except for them but at least they treat it objectively and not just come up with fancy names for infinity re-entry slap a big bad guarantee on a pile of **** structure.

One example is the early morning non-turbo 1,100 unlimited re-entry 100K on Spartan vs 1000 1 x re-entry turbo 50K on Stars. Not only does the sparty tourney finish in about the time the Stars is getting into the money, it's just a crapshoot of re-entries and blind levels that make PS 5mins last longer than their random 7-8min 'on some relativity clocks' levels