Pokerstar 200 billionhand tournament a real joke ?

People were just too busy/lazy to write reports about a freeroll with an equity a only a few $ per active player. That particular freeroll was laggy (dealt a hand every 5 minutes or so), while most of the real money games weren't lagging.

Same. 7 or 8 hands for the first hour. Cash tables were also lagging. If they can't handle it, why they do it? Finished 8800th for $5.29. Stars is geting worse and worse in every aspect, no rakeback, bad promotions like 0.10 ticket, bad software aurora, bad connection, bad support etc. The good thing is that they will likely lose their big market share and we might have competition from other rooms, which will be good for the players.

I've been noticing that sometimes I lose my connection for a few seconds in the middle of hands. It wasn't happening before, so it's definitely not from my computer/internet.

Originally posted by semiramiRNMD
Same. 7 or 8 hands for the first hour. Cash tables were also lagging. If they can't handle it, why they do it? Finished 8800th for $5.29. Stars is geting worse and worse in every aspect, no rakeback, bad promotions like 0.10 ticket, bad software aurora, bad connection, bad support etc. The good thing is that they will likely lose their big market share and we might have competition from other rooms, which will be good for the players.

This resumes pretty much eveything there is to say.

Pokerstars sucks! Rakeback its a Joke.... and rake its gigant...

Originally posted by tonypmm
People were just too busy/lazy to write reports about a freeroll with an equity a only a few $ per active player. That particular freeroll was laggy (dealt a hand every 5 minutes or so), while most of the real money games weren't lagging.

Same experience -- I regged late, and when I hit the play now button, I got a message saying that there were a lot of simultaneous registrations, and I was in a queue.

That took several minutes before I was seated.
The hands went smoothly, but there was a long delay between hands.

Surprisingly, I did fairly well, finishing in 12932nd place of 213992 runners.
I finished then only because my 2nd set of AA got cracked.

Cheers,
VS

Ah yes and I forgot the currency exchange. Now they require all transations to and from bank accounts (deposits and withdrawals) in Bulgaria to be made in the local currency for unknown reason. So if you want to deposit 100 Euro you can't send 100 Euro, but that amont in BGN, the same with cashouts. But they will pay you 1.88 BGN for 1 Euro and will require 2.02 BGN for 1 Euro. They call it "Foreign exchange risk", which is a nonsense, because BGN is pegged to the Euro since 1997 at a rate 1.95583, and this peg will never be lifted, because Bulgaria is sheduled to join the Eurozone in 2023 or 2024. Not Foreign exchange risk at all Just a theft.
I am an economist and I know that a company to be successful, must always work fort the highest profit possible, but when you begin to abuse your near monopoly market, you'll not finish well and sooner or later you will pay for it.

I complained about their previous promotion. I won several $0.10 tickets, but it's obviously too much of a giveaway and the current promotion awards this:

I expect for the next promotion : You just won the privilege to donate $1 to PokerStars!!!

I have a few "no prize" spins, but mostly 10 cent tickets

Originally posted by semiramiRNMD
I complained about their previous promotion. I won several $0.10 tickets, but it's obviously too much of a giveaway and the current promotion awards this:

I expect for the next promotion : You just won the privilege to donate $1 to PokerStars!!!

i get the the lotery tickets $1000 $2000 al in tickets not so mutch more good

Of course, the 0.10 ticket is actually even worse than no prize, beause I need to play at least 1 hour to cash and I will win a lot more if I replace this table with a cash table. The lottery tickets are also close to nothing. But to win "nothing" literally, displayed with big letters is brutal! Psychologically. This is a promotion, and I won hmmmmm nothing, what the f**** Not very smart marketing strategy IMO.

Nasty to win no prize, but those 10c tickets are nasty as well. You can only use them for 360 players SNG's when the variance is huge in those games. Only advantage is that you can use it another day to get another change to win a prize.

It's actually $0.10 SCOOP Sat ticket. You can win a $2 Spin&Go SCOOP ticket than you can win a $1050 ME entry and than you can win 1M guranated or more, depends on the entrants. Sounds cool right?

The real joke is the Amaya company, they killed the poker through the new policy, the introduction of Casino games and sporting bets, cuting off rakeback. They did everything to reduce the poker section and herd the players towards real gambling, Pokerstars and Full Tilt together was a good deal, competition.... and then we can see what a monopol situation cause on the market. They fuc'k'n can what they want and nobody can able to stop this madness.