Whenever I close and reopen stars my HHs stop writing to my computer and I have to reinstall stars every time which is obviously annoying.

Anyone experienced anything like this?

calm down dude you know life's not that serious

I'm not sure what I've done to inspire this kind of anger in you and others on this board. We're trying to help people that want to work with us make a lot more money than they already are in as many ways as possible. There isn't one thing we do - or two things. We're entirely straightforward about the deal, and we're working on a performance basis so we're not trying to engage in some money-grab where the consumer is left short-changed. At the end of the day, we're dedicating (and have dedicated) enormous amounts of time and energy to our goals and we've been fortunate enough to make some innovations that have turned out to be profitable in numerous areas. Since you aren't a part of our group, and you've likely never met me or anyone else I work with, I don't know why you think you know what we do (as if it was a singular thing) so I don't think you're in a position to criticize us. Those who have worked with us in the past on this project (yes, some of them post in this very thread) have very, very, very few complaints about the job we do or our professionalism in helping each partner of ours make more money than they were before through a number of different methods.

And by the way, your idea that what we do "kills online poker" is nonsense. What has been the case, and has always been the case, is that poker is like anything else - it's fast moving and competitive and if you'd prefer to sit behind your keyboard and hate me or my team, that's your prerogative. But you'd be better off getting to know us a bit and seeing that maybe we're not so bad before cursing us to the high heavens. Maybe if you did that you'd see that it must just be the case that your time would be better spent competing in the game you love, even if it's changing, rather than letting it pass you by while you curse at it (and me).

If it kills you that people like me spend more time and energy and money pursuing ideas than you do and get substantially better results, I can't help you there. Do you know that I have basically worked 7 days a week for 2 years in a row? Generally the person or people with the best ideas who work the hardest to accomplish those ideas and actually do things are more successful (and profitable) than those who don't. At least that's what I see in the world, and so that's all we've done from day 1.

Part of me want to get in the train and not get left behind , and the other part thinks it s totaly imoral. Yet i jumped in the train for huds and any kind of software as they were made available in the past, so i guess providing for my family and the freedom $ bring you will always prevail, althought by doing something i m feeling forced to, it totally goes against the definition of freedom .

I guess my line on this is, if i had the final word, i would definitly choose that online poker should be played in the purest form and witthout any artificials advantages over the player who plays his first hand of online poker, but since i don t have it, i decided that living doing a job i love yet doing some things i feel are immorals makes me feel better than working a 9-5 job i hate but living by my morals standard does.

My personal goal in poker is to make enough money to be put in a position to have more options.

(hope my english is not to bad)

I disagree with you guys. You tell that sublime makes huge damage to poker community. But you should remember that gambling itself is huge damage for mankind. It doesn't make anything good and it is big evil that no religion could bless.

People could create better future for their kids, help relatives or even homeless people but they lose that money to the goldess corporations that holds on short frenums multiple poker junkies, called poker pros. Most of them are even wasting their youth, careers and everything that they could achieve for pennies. Time is most precious thing and they will waste it, not gain any life experience. They will not get any experience at all, cuz they lurks at poker tables at the dark, maybe spending their free time by posting thousands posts at 2+2 and jerking off looking at threadsaver girls. Other- much smaller part - are winning poker kids, kids who got tons of money without actually being able to do anything else except poker. They cry all the time about damaging poker world, because they knows that they will be nothing if that thing will collapse. There is only one good thing about them- they have enough of money to buy drugs and they do that. They take drugs, they poison themselves and finally they contribute to human evoliution by self-selecting themselves out of the gene pool via death.

So everything that cures that shameful disease - poker- is good thing. And I want to thank you for that Sublime. Good luck at thing that you do and you get my bless!

Have to admit it. The man above me is speaking the truth

This is some serious after school special stuff.

I wouldn't mind some stats on this winning poker player phenomenon

I just want to know when ninja plans on self selecting himself out of the gene pool.

<3

Well... I have two kids... So I already made my input into human evolution

So it must be really close now?

Lol... I love how it's completely slipped past ninja that there are a reasonable # of poker players who simply do this because it's the easiest way to make money now... with plans of investing that money moving forward and then either returning to school to continue with our pursuits in the career of our choice or, if we've already finished school to simply move on with our careers once the poker "phase" of our life is over.

I know personally I'm looking at a lot of school down the road and I think a year and a half break to play poker to split up the ~12 years of University isn't a bad plan. If I can make a couple 100k during that time too (when in any other profession I'm qualified to make 10-15$/hr), meet some interesting people, travel a little and enjoy what I'm doing then why not?

Apparently life is as black and white as "if you play poker --> you have no life outside of poker and will never have a life outside of poker".

altho ninja is quite competent at the tables he doesnt seem to have the slightest clue about life itself
how he can berate poker players and call them no-lifers is beyond me

He s just painting a generalization here, of course it s gonna be over the top as it s seems to be his style of doing things, but once you take out the "outrageous" out of it, you got to admit that it has some truth to it .

yeah but guys, ninja has had two kids!!!! your life is meaningless unless you've had kids

Do not feed the troll.

ninja is a damn good troll

well played ninja

Poker is business now. About tomorrow ? Who ****ing damn cares. I live the today. If poker ends tomorrow then it's time to move on into another thing. Ninja is a ****** and has no understanding of what life is. Poker is not going to die even if these guys tries to teach everybody how to play optimal. Donks are always around and we have too many so poker can't die.

And LMAO when ninja calls poker an evil thing. It's a game like any other and it's played with real money baby. Some people get fun from it and others take it a bit more serious. The issue is nobody can kill poker. You're fighting against a multi billionaire enterprise so how come a small group of players will kill the industry ?. It's just not gonna happen.

Personally anyone who pays those guys who create programs like Snowie or to be coached are donks and will be brainwashed in some way. I wouldn't trust any of those guys never ever. Think how many scammers are there around trying to make money, false teachers etc. and the poker world is the perfect scenario to be ****ed hard by those guys.

You know what is evil Ninja, scamming people is evil

but people still feed him, on and on and on and on and on ...

haha wp Ninja !

If it wasn't for your posts I would've unsubbed long ago from this "official lets cry about how ****ed up has online poker become, like if it was a major problem for humanity as a whole" thread

As far as contributing to humanity goes, bringing enlightment to your fellows poker players counts too I'd say.

Ninja obviously speaks some truth.

The fact that this part of truth isn't well accepted in the Stars Regs 2013 thread is not shocking really.

ninja makes some good points

Thoughts on this thread?

Should Pokerstars and FTP disclose what country people are logged in from?

I gotta say, this thread definitely makes for an entertaining read

http://moonshineblog.wordpress.com/

So how much did Snowie pay you to advertise for them?

But a more serious question would be, how do you feel about the players who are clearly using it realtime on Pokerstars?

Actually on 2nd thought, first question is still relevant because you have a referal link in your blogpost.