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Another money-grab by PokerStars?

Looks like players are getting milked… again.

Most likely you have heard or read about the changes in the reward system within the VIP status in Pokerstars.

What is this all about and why are the regs so upset about it? (You too?)

 

Pokerfuse explains in their article on the topic that

“the main complaint is that players put in high amounts of volume at the online poker tables in an effort to achieve Supernova Elite VIP status in 2015 which would provide them with a certain level of benefits in 2016, but under the announced changes those stated benefits for 2016 have been significantly reduced.”

In other words, the new program will reduce rewards for their biggest players – without telling them about it in advance. Ouch…

No need to explain that cutting the big bonuses is, of course, all done in the name of the greater good of the poker economy… Nothing to do with Pokerstars’ (Amaya’s) pockets, folks… 

Ansky describes it further on 2+2 as follows: “While PokerStars claims the changes are to provide relief to recreational players, there is no such change happening. They are telling their players outright lies, and we will not stand for it.”

 

 

I’m shocked. Lies? Pokerstars would never do that… Oh, wait. (Flashback 2012…)

Ansky, who earned SNE status last year, basically feels screwed with the changes by Pokerstars (rightfully so) – like many others, who even decided to go on strike for 3 days at the beginning of the month.

 

Alex “Kanu7” Miller is so pissed off about it, that he even left his position in the “Team Pokerstars Online” as he felt that he could not support the grinders in the recent changes and therefore wants nothing to do with the company anymore. Guess there won’t be any more Pokerstars Kanu7 documentaries in the near future…

Lot’s of people are angry about it, there are petitions published, strikes announced. The question is – will it work? Will we see another negotiation between the players and Pokerstars, as we did in 2012? 

What do you think? Is Pokerstars right to go for a bigger piece of the pie? Should the players stand up? 

Does anybody really believe in their line of “changes will benefit the recreational players”, or is this just a plain old ‘money grab’ by Pokerstars? I vote for the latter.


 

 

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