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Originally Posted by Educa-P0ker.
I dont agree with you Shaitan. I do not think it is the same. Nowdays, as there are no games running regularly in highstakes (25/50+) no one has prefeerence at this games. But there are a lot of regs willing to play in 5/10 or 10 20, no matter who is in front of. I think they should have preference playing against the fishes, and not a reg who plays only one there is one of them. The regs who play against everyone are more benefitial in the long term than the bumhunters.
Im not saying not to be a bumhuynter. This problem (extreme bumhunting) has to be solved by pokerstars, and until that the most intelligent way to play poker is bumhunting, as its permitted for everyone. But I expect that in the future it wwont be possible to table select (which makes me less $/h, but makes poker much more sustainable).
Then who gets to play the high-stakes games? Only people who battle at the highest stakes that regularly run or is it open season?
If we're ok with everyone's edge going down if we get rid of table selection then ok. Go pimpylimpy's way.
I don't know if that's what everyone wants though. Does Kanu want it so that only the best nl2k players can play with him when a RP is sitting? I kind of feel poker is too sick of the game to expect people who don't love it to put up with the variance of negative expectation and near neutral expectation games.
Yes the extreme bum hunting is a huge problem. There is a difference between bum hunting and extreme bum hunting. I think it should be a one strike rule that if you ever do anything that constitutes it you are banned from playing those stakes. i.e. everyone in that screenshot with scout(?) sitting out and just kanu sitting in
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One final point: If at all possible we'd like to avoid 'manual' solutions for these problems. In general, we just have a *lot* of customers and deal a *lot* of hands... nearing 100 billion as it happens.
The best way to deal with that is going to be a manual solution. I believe Stars has it such that you can do things that are against the spirit of the games but they don't enforce it. Quite a joke too, there's no way one employee cant handle doing all that needs to be done.