Project boycot Pokerstars. Make some other site great.

It seems like the people from pokerstars are not listening to clients. Lots of people do not want this aurora bullshit due to all kinds of issues like too small fonts when playing several small tables, pc issues, that damn flashing between zoom hands on non default backgrounds etc. People still play there probably because there are many players. So lots of action action on the cash game tables, and tournaments with big guarantees. But we can change that. We can make some other poker room great by playing there.

Here is what I suggest. Boycot Pokerstars for just one day per week in the beginning. That day cash game players will play somewhere else, so there is lots of action on that site and less action on Pokerstars.Tournament players can agree on a tournament, that they are going to play that day, and then effectively making that one a huge guaranteed tournament(guaranteed because we know in advance that many players will be participating). With time I am sure we could convince that poker room to make it a guaranteed tournament every week.Slowly adding more and more.

Who is with me? If you like the idea, I guess the first thing we should figure out is when to play. After that I can make another post where we find out where to play. If enough people are interested we could make another site great, or alternatively Pokerstars would listen to customers and give them what they want. #Auroraoff!

Which day would you like to play somewhere else?

This is very difficult to come true. It would have to be a very planned and worldwide action. This is almost impossible.

deyvsonflp said:

This is very difficult to come true. It would have to be a very planned and worldwide action. This is almost impossible.

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I think that enough people are pissed off enough to not play there for just one day per week. Yes it would have to be planned, but this is what I am trying to do here. Together we are strong and can make changes. There are other good poker rooms with an okay software, and even if you don't like the look of the tables it is possible to clone the old pokerstars themes to other poker rooms. Like 888 for example with the mercury theme from Pokerstars. I am sick and tired of Pokerstars thinking they can do whatever they want just because it is the biggest poker room. Time for some real competition. We can do this!

Now tat you brought that up, yes that Aurora sucks. I thought it was my PC that is not supporting it. Everything worked a lot smoother before they implemented what's supposed to be a huge graphic improvement !
As Deyvsonflp said above, your task will be really tough. I voted and let you take it from there. Good luck.

najisami said:

Now tat you brought that up, yes that Aurora sucks. I thought it was my PC that is not supporting it. Everything worked a lot smoother before they implemented what's supposed to be a huge graphic improvement !
As Deyvsonflp said above, your task will be really tough. I voted and let you take it from there. Good luck.

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Thanks. I voted Friday but really any day is good for me at the moment. What other poker rooms do you like? I really like partypoker(especially after replacing background image with a custom one) but they do not have a level playing field because some players can download hand histories and some people can't. I am currently thinking about making a small deposit at 888. ACR I would also consider if it was tax free in Denmark. I really liked ipoker sites back in the day, and would love it if we could make that network great again.

I don't think this is the place to discuss a Pokerstars boycott seeing as Cardschat have many freerolls on the site. Please don't destroy that relationship for those of us who enjoy the free value cardschat gives.

dom97 said:

I don't think this is the place to discuss a Pokerstars boycott seeing as Cardschat have many freerolls on the site. Please don't destroy that relationship for those of us who enjoy the free value cardschat gives.

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this. and anyway, things like this have been organized in the past and miserably failed.

jimmiandersen said:

It seems like the people from Pokerstars are not listening to clients. Lots of people do not want this aurora bullshit due to all kinds of issues like too small fonts when playing several small tables, pc issues, that damn flashing between zoom hands on non default backgrounds etc. People still play there probably because there are many players. So lots of action action on the cash game tables, and tournaments with big guarantees. But we can change that. We can make some other poker room great by playing there.

Here is what I suggest. Boycot Pokerstars for just one day per week in the beginning. That day cash game players will play somewhere else, so there is lots of action on that site and less action on Pokerstars.Tournament players can agree on a tournament, that they are going to play that day, and then effectively making that one a huge guaranteed tournament(guaranteed because we know in advance that many players will be participating). With time I am sure we could convince that poker room to make it a guaranteed tournament every week.Slowly adding more and more.

Who is with me? If you like the idea, I guess the first thing we should figure out is when to play. After that I can make another post where we find out where to play. If enough people are interested we could make another site great, or alternatively Pokerstars would listen to customers and give them what they want. #Auroraoff!

Which day would you like to play somewhere else?

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There was no option to click on ALL of the days....

Honestly I think Pokerstars is doing this very thing to themselves this very moment. It is ridiculous how they've chosen to ignore their customers re: Aurora graphics ... And that they are losing many customers who don't have computers that will work smoothly with the new updated software. Maybe they don't care about those customers (the ones who don't have disposable income to spend on their computers... the ones who will be depositing regularly on the site... the ones who play from their phones while at work, etc. etc. etc.).
They are obviously making many poor decisions. It seems very odd. It started out as a site to play poker on. Now.... it just seems like a money grab.
ie. removing the rewards program (Supernova, etc.).. HUGE FAIL!
- increasing rake on micro stakes. (WTF?!?! they should DECREASE it and watch their numbers soar.... ie a promo like '1/2 price MTT-SNG... where all multi-table SnG's have rake lowered to 5%).
- lessening Customer support - - TERRIBLE!!! Pokerstars was known for having the best customer support of all sites. Now it is one of thee worst!

I'm really not happy with the changes at PokerStars.

Along with the format changes, I'm really bothered by all the popups you get when you log on.

Also, the challenges are slow to load, and a number of them are so convoluted, and difficult to reach, that they are just a huge waste of tiem.

Money grab is correct.

Hi guys. I'm interested in your opinion ? What can you say about the PokerStars support service ? I've been waiting almost a month for an answer to my question.




Life is a game , play beautiful

pokerstars has been selling the kings new clothes since the day Amaya bought it years ago.

but a boycott of a few members of one forum will change absolutely nothing. they won't care in the slightest.

Not only is this pretty much completely unworkable, as any one forum encompasses a tiny proportion of the global, multilingual player base on Stars, but Stars might even like it. They've made very clear for a considerable period of time that what they care about is the overall ecosystem, and that they will shed few tears over the departure of winning players, who are likely to be disproportionately represented in poker fora.

Personally, I have some time for some of Stars moves- obviously, rake hikes are bad, but the reduction in table cap has seriously improved the games, which no longer feature the same nit playing 10/8 to setmine at 24 tables. I might have gone a little higher than 4 (they reportedly trialled 6 in Italy), but there's no question it has changed the dynamics of play at microstakes. There is always a certain tragedy of the commons element to poker- everyone wants to be able to catch as many fish as they can, but if all the fish die out then everyone starves. In the same vein, giving a huge chunk of the promotional budget to SNE grinders was great if you were SNE, but not entirely healthy for the ecosystem, although I'm not a particular fan of the current loot box implementation of the reward scheme.

Aurora- meh, I haven't noticed the difference, but that's probably because I have decent GPUs in both the PCs I use to play. Might be different if I were trying to use the integrated graphics in a 5 year old laptop.

TLDR: Stars won't care, and I'm not sure some of their changes are bad for poker as a whole anyway.

dom97 said:

I don't think this is the place to discuss a Pokerstars boycott seeing as Cardschat have many freerolls on the site. Please don't destroy that relationship for those of us who enjoy the free value cardschat gives.

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Agree completely. I try as best as I can to not name a specific site if complaining simply because CC has a relationship with all the sites.

We play free rolls at the goodwill of the sites via CC.

Regarding the graphics - since the shutdown yesterday my graphics have improved (back to original quality). I made a new thread asking if others also found their graphics improved...so far no one has answered.

I am a little leery as my graphics switched back and forth through the transition to Aurora but all I know is the tables today looks hella good again. I will revert back if the graphics degrade again, but to the thread I posted.

Your enthusiasm is notable,
but problem number 1 of the schedule is disabled in the settings,.
problem number 2 of the PS is all the same to your revolt.

jimmiandersen said:

It seems like the people from Pokerstars are not listening to clients. Lots of people do not want this aurora bullshit due to all kinds of issues like too small fonts when playing several small tables, pc issues, that damn flashing between zoom hands on non default backgrounds etc. People still play there probably because there are many players. So lots of action action on the cash game tables, and tournaments with big guarantees. But we can change that. We can make some other poker room great by playing there.

Here is what I suggest. Boycot Pokerstars for just one day per week in the beginning. That day cash game players will play somewhere else, so there is lots of action on that site and less action on Pokerstars.Tournament players can agree on a tournament, that they are going to play that day, and then effectively making that one a huge guaranteed tournament(guaranteed because we know in advance that many players will be participating). With time I am sure we could convince that poker room to make it a guaranteed tournament every week.Slowly adding more and more.

Who is with me? If you like the idea, I guess the first thing we should figure out is when to play. After that I can make another post where we find out where to play. If enough people are interested we could make another site great, or alternatively Pokerstars would listen to customers and give them what they want. #Auroraoff!

Which day would you like to play somewhere else?

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Pokerstars has monopoly so they don't really care. Best thing to do is just permanently move to other sites - and maybe in few years something will happen

Unify players for a cause ?? That would be something to remember , I guess only if it's damn too late players see a problem or unify to deal with it , all other days they try to pull their eyes out each other , at the tables mostly

YOU ARE APPROACHING THIS THE WRONG WAY....

YOU ARE APPROACHING THIS THE WRONG WAY....

1. YOU NEED TO ORGANIZE A GROUP LETTER OF SEVERAL HIGH LEVEL MEMBER + THOUSANDS OF SIGNATURES SIGNING THAT LETTER.

2. YOU NEED TO PRESENT YOUR COMPELLING FACTS AS FACTS (THEY KNOW THEY CHEAT) AND TAKE THEM TO THE HIGHEST ALGORITHM COURT IN THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF LAW.

3. THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. IT'S HOPELESS. SHUT UP AND PLAY ANOTHER SITE.

Not a fan of that site to start with. Opponents 15% flushes hitting on the river are about 80% there lol

I played in my first platinum freeroll yesterday....after the game i got a notification message from Stars about my cash...i got lucky and donked a cash place...

It said that the $100..ie the entire proze pool... was given to the game by pokerstars. Ergo...the ( majority of ? ) freerolls that this site enjoys on pokerstars, are funded by Pokerstars..?..yes..?..no..??

While i of course believe in free speech at all levels and on every subject, i think it is very foolish to bite the hand that feeds you.

I have made some negative comments concerning stars recently...i will desist in this.

I have never played at PokerStars. Can you even play in Virginia?

I won’t boycott them completely but they are definitely earning a lot less rake from me.
I only play the Scholars Leaderboard Games and any other Freeroll they want to give me.
Other than that will play the CardsChat Games and that’s about it.

The rest of my time is now spent mostly on GG Poker as well as the occasional games on Party.