Stars Announcement..Ship It Holla

[TheMetetron]

If Stars can keep US payment methods open, good for them. Otherwise, enjoy rock-garden PokerStars.

[Kneel B4 Zod]

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All,

I don't think this announcement changes anything. Just makes it more likely that Stars rather than UB or FullTilt becomes the new biggest poker site.

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Eh, I disagree. With every site that shuts down it's US operations, we lose a certain amount of dead money that won't redeposit somewhere else. Keeping the Stars share of dead money in the game is pretty huge IMO.

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I agree with this also...some % of people wouldn't bother playing anywhere again

[LearnedfromTV]

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All,

I don't think this announcement changes anything. Just makes it more likely that Stars rather than UB or FullTilt becomes the new biggest poker site.

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Several of us prefer that.

Plus, losing the two biggest sites would suck from a pr perspective, whereas this makes Party look like the odd duck, and if the average fish asks why Party left and others stayed they hear, "b/c they're public" and they accept that.

And regardless of all that, there's a player volume issue. Any time a site closes, a lot of the fish will just flat quit rather than go to a new site. I have a few friends who play some on Stars and wouldn't go out of their way to go somewhere else if Stars closes, especially because their impression of online poker would be damaged. Stars stays open, all those types stay, and because Stars has a lot of players, them staying is pretty big.

[emptyshell]

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i would also like to add an FU to you and and your family to the following

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Very nice. [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

[hotbacon]

I dropped 200 BB's today but I don't really care after this news.

[Botchman]

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I'll post the same statement as I did in the other thread.

Isn't this just an optimistic interpretation of the bill? It looks like their whole argument hinges on "poker as a game of skill", and if that is the case, PokerStars' opinion won't hold up very long.

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Even in a moment of truimph there will always be people trying to make the worst of every situation. It is a pleasure to be able to here your expert opinion.

[The Bryce]

What they can do in terms of deposit options and advertising in the states will be quite important. A large site with terrible table quality isn't worth much at all.

[Kneel B4 Zod]

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If Stars can keep US payment methods open, good for them. Otherwise, enjoy rock-garden PokerStars.

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as opposed to the other sites that will magically have the ability to keep US payment methods open?

[PokerBob]

i want party to go BUSTO. i am a bad person.

[By-Tor]

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Little birdie sent me this.

http://www.pokerstars.com/legislation/uigea/

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