Pokerstars getting worse and worse

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Is it just me or is pokerstars getting worse and worse as far as play money games are concerned?

First they did the idiotic change to the amount of play money you can get for free every day, now it seems to me they are actually limiting the amount of games you can play at once as well.

Before with the 1000x3 play money chips you got you could have played maaaany games before you would run out of them. Now? You get 12500 chips every bloody for hours BUT every single game you can join costs at least 10000.
So pretty much if you are starting out with poker and you choose Pokerstars to learn it, you get like one game every 4 hours. That is utterly ridiculous.

And about the limiting the amount of games you can play at once, I don't recall being able to play only 3 sit&go tourneys at once back in the days but correct me if I am wrong and if it was like that before.

The worst thing is there aren't really that many alternatives with as good UI and overall client quality as Pokerstars. I am really disappointed in them.
 
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I understand your frustration, when I started out play money games I would play an sng, and lose all of my chips within 20 minutes, then I wasn't able to do anything for 4 hours.
However, this became an important step in my learning; I no longer was calling shoves light and it stopped me from going shove crazy after a bad beat.
I heard that before the changes that many players were spew shoving atc, which was destroying the experience for players who actually wanted to get some post-flop practice without having to effectively play shove/fold when the effective stacks are high.
After a bit of play money experience and a few false starts, it is not too difficult to obtain a large amount of play money so that having to wait 4 hours for a game is a distant memory.

Just my two cents.
 
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...you can buy play-money chips fairly cheap.....

otherwise, download another poker App....
 
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...you can buy play-money chips fairly cheap.....

otherwise, download another poker app....

Yeah I can. And that is the whole point isn't it. It was just a way to make their users pay even more than they already do. Because now even if you want to play play money games you have to pay real cash.
 
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I had several situationwhen I 90 procent should take a hand on cash games,but turn and river on poker satrs is nightmarefor some players....
 
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Some poker rooms were not in good operation recently years, So they are trying another ways to earn some money. Limiting the amount of games that one can play is one way to reduce cost.
 
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I had several situationwhen I 90 procent should take a hand on cash games,but turn and river on poker satrs is nightmarefor some players....
This seems to happen to me far more than I would have expected it's always 84% 86% or 90% in my favour before the river then bang the dreams dead
I understand your frustration, when I started out play money games I would play an sng, and lose all of my chips within 20 minutes, then I wasn't able to do anything for 4 hours.
However, this became an important step in my learning; I no longer was calling shoves light and it stopped me from going shove crazy after a bad beat.
I heard that before the changes that many players were spew shoving atc, which was destroying the experience for players who actually wanted to get some post-flop practice without having to effectively play shove/fold when the effective stacks are high.
After a bit of play money experience and a few false starts, it is not too difficult to obtain a large amount of play money so that having to wait 4 hours for a game is a distant memory.

Just my two cents.

...you can buy play-money chips fairly cheap.....

otherwise, download another poker app....
 
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Also think about an entirely new player just finding out about poker and going on Pokerstars. He gets to play ONE game every 4 hours pretty much. Back when there were 1000 buy-ins you got plenty of games you could play and you could have practiced a lot thanks to that. Now? Either pay up or find a different poker room. Seems to me like shooting themselves in the foot. Or just being greedy bastards. Probably both.
 
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Build up your play money. I've got over 733K in play money, wining some games also helps....
 
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Yeah I can. And that is the whole point isn't it. It was just a way to make their users pay even more than they already do. Because now even if you want to play play money games you have to pay real cash.

I never play for game money. Just I don't see sense to play just like that, without risking than - a game loses meaning and it is possible to do any rate with any game.
Therefore, can be in restriction of quantity of freely distributed game money there is certain plus. Players can begin to more carefully refers to the amount of their available demo chips and play a more thought out. Especially if they buy these chips)))
 
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Its a lose lose situation for stars and for players. Stars tries to be helpful and allow as many free chips as possible and then cos it's easy, players throw their chips around like they mean nothing (the funny thing is that they do mean nothing) and then other players complain about the table experience so stars comes up with the idea (probably suggested by players) to restrict the amount of free chips you can get to reduce the 'throwing chips around' effect, only to annoy people who want to get extra chips .

If Stars had never allowed unlimited chips, and had only ever given whathey give now I guess everyone would be happy . It's a case of we have lost something we used to have and don't like it. Go with it and you might enjoy playing again.
 
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Not interested in playing for play money. To experience the real game of poker, you should only play for real money. Good luck)
 
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Play money are good for kids.
 
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I don't know if play money are for kids , I like sometimes to play some tournaments or sngs with play money , it's not that boring and I can see some leaks in my game !!
Moreover , I liked things as they were before the changes , I think I could see more players then at the games such tournaments , but what can we do ?? I just refill my play money as much as I can :)

*(the title is a bit exaggerated :))
 
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I don t think so.A great number of qualified specialists are working in stars and they think about everything.That s why is difficult to win in stars
 
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...you can buy play-money chips fairly cheap.....

otherwise, download another poker app....

This is so silly, why waste your REAL cash to buy PRETEND money, use that real cash to enter real money games, play money games are a waste of your time and you won't get better.

Some poker rooms were not in good operation recently years, So they are trying another ways to earn some money, from the silly people that play for play money. Limiting the amount of games that one can play is one way to reduce cost.

FYP

Its a lose lose situation for stars and for players. Stars tries to be helpful and allow as many free chips as possible and then cos it's easy, players throw their chips around like they mean nothing (the funny thing is that they do mean nothing) and then other players complain about the table experience so stars comes up with the idea (probably suggested by players) to restrict the amount of free chips you can get to reduce the 'throwing chips around' effect, only to annoy people who want to get extra chips .

If Stars had never allowed unlimited chips, and had only ever given what they give now I guess everyone would be happy . It's a case of we have lost something we used to have and don't like it. Go with it and you might enjoy playing again.

+1

Play chips are a waste of time to play for, people could be playing realmoney games in that time and at the least they have a chance of winning real cash.

I don't know if play money are for kids , I like sometimes to play some tournaments or sngs with play money , it's not that boring and I can see some leaks in my game !!
Moreover , I liked things as they were before the changes , I think I could see more players then at the games such tournaments , but what can we do ?? I just refill my play money as much as I can :)

*(the title is a bit exaggerated :))

You won't fix your game by playing play money games.

Almost no one plays with play money games that have any skillz that is, they are a good way to learn how to be a bad player.

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Not interested in playing for play money. To experience the real game of poker, you should only play for real money. Good luck)

Agree with you but he might be in a country or state where he cant play for real money and play money is the only option so...he gotta play what he can (if this is the case)
 
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Is it just me or is Pokerstars getting worse and worse as far as play money games are concerned?

First they did the idiotic change to the amount of play money you can get for free every day, now it seems to me they are actually limiting the amount of games you can play at once as well.

Before with the 1000x3 play money chips you got you could have played maaaany games before you would run out of them. Now? You get 12500 chips every bloody for hours BUT every single game you can join costs at least 10000.
So pretty much if you are starting out with poker and you choose Pokerstars to learn it, you get like one game every 4 hours. That is utterly ridiculous.

And about the limiting the amount of games you can play at once, I don't recall being able to play only 3 sit&go tourneys at once back in the days but correct me if I am wrong and if it was like that before.

The worst thing is there aren't really that many alternatives with as good UI and overall client quality as Pokerstars. I am really disappointed in them.


I could be wrong but my BELIEF is that they are just proabably placing their main focus and resources into the real money aspect of the game. So less efforts are made to make the play money aspects more ideal for a more enjoyable experience. I think it should be balance experience with both as to cater for players who arent able to play for real money, allowing them to have a similar or the same experience that one would get when playing for real money
 
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They have gotten worse, where are the decent challenges, something worth playing.
And what about the horrible bonuses, they only cater to first time depositors, no re-load bonuses that I've seen lately and the only reload bonuses for existing customers I have seen, were in the past and only for Game tickets.
 
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