Stars is now the biggest

hiho · #1 10-13-2006, 10:35 PM

Stars is now the biggest site online period. They passed were passing party anyway but now there is no one close. Not getting the numbers at stars that I expected but it will soon.

William · #2 10-13-2006, 10:39 PM

WOW, amazing news [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

Really, really bored today huh?

hiho · #3 10-13-2006, 11:03 PM

Great its clear now then. Thanks!

Mr. Orange · #4 10-13-2006, 11:10 PM

Limit cash games still suck at the limits I play. Hopefully that will change.

Harkey · #5 10-14-2006, 12:00 AM

And I would have guessed that Buster's Poker Room was the biggest now. Thanks for the heads-up.

RikaKazak · #6 10-14-2006, 12:03 AM

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And I would have guessed that Buster's Poker Room was the biggest now. Thanks for the heads-up.

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crap...my guess was "come out poker" I'm way off [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

BluffTHIS! · #7 10-14-2006, 12:12 AM

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Limit cash games still suck at the limits I play. Hopefully that will change.

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I play only big bet poker at higher stakes, but I guarantee I know the reason your limit low stakes games suck on stars. It is because of their cheap ass bonus policy. Bonuses don't mean [censored] to those of us who play higher and rarely need to redeposit, but they mean a lot to low stakes players. A generous bonus policy was one of the key pillars of party's marketing strategy in their growth to the formerly biggest site. Of course they would have the problem of all the bonus hos, but that goes with the territory.

Another reason for the bad quality of your games is probably also that stars followed party in upping the number of tables players can play. Hyper-predatory multi-tablers quickly drain the fish pond. Allowing same is long term bad business as although it generates a lot more rake in the short run, it also decimates the fish quicker and makes the games worse, which of course makes it harder to recruit new players and can start a downward spiral of less rake revenue.

Party of course once they were biggest didn't give a [censored] about any of this or any of their player's concerns, and although I don't think stars will ever lessen the quality of their support just because they are at the top of the heap now, I do think that they won't be as sensitive to the things I've mentioned.

However the very best thing about stars, talking about decimating the fish, is that they don't offer casino games or have a sister site for such. Those things drain the poker economy and [censored] all of us poker players.

Shoe · #8 10-14-2006, 12:33 AM

Great points! I agree completely!

magoo · #9 10-14-2006, 08:45 AM

.50 and $1.00 ?

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Dunkman · #10 10-14-2006, 10:11 AM

I always thought the low stakes 6max limit games at Stars were pretty good. Yeah, FR sucks, but FR sucks anyway, play 6max it's much funner.