Zoom with Ante on Pokerstars

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D4nko

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Hello everybody,

the Zoom tables on pokerstars are now with Ante, how do you think this will influence the game and should the preflop ranges be wider now?

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preflop raises and ranges

I think the preflop ranges should be almost the same..... I played zoom omaha with antes and kept almost the same hand range of open raise....in zoom with no ante i would pot bet the open raise... the difference is that my initial open raising size for zoom with ante is not pot bet but like half pot raise only for example blinds .01/.02 cents I open raise to 7 cents not the pot size 13 cents.... with the 7 cent raise is enough to win the blinds and antes in several hands that other players dont call preflop... I noticed the players kept their hand playing range almost the same as if they were playing with no ante.... at least that is my impression from the hands I played in zoom with ante...
 
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It's the safest. I think pots will increase due to this implementation and maybe player traffic will continue to decrease :(
 
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With antes game should be little bit looser. I welcome this change, currently zoom is incredibly nitty and boring, hope this change helps.
 
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Yeah the Ante will change something, i was looking at the average pot for the NL10 it's 1$, the NL2 it's 0,5$ and like i'm a NL10 player with some bad results i think that i'll be playing the NL2 for better results and reduicing the swings somehow
 
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i think its better ,cause without ante you still fold all the night ,its boring
 
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I haven't tried NL 2 with ante yet. I've had earnings of around $ 100 at that level. I'm curious if my game could benefit from this, or maybe not.
In common sense, the key is a good selection of preflop hands and to extend the ranges a little according to the position, but I think it would not change too much, just pay a little attention and steal more wells from the button. :icon_chee
 
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It hasn't influenced NL10 at all as far as I noticed, so whatever, but having a whole small blind being taken from your stack every time you are dealt cards (as it's now on NL2) is unacceptable and scummy.
 
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Omg , in 9 max and you see your stack '' 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-0-9-8-7-6-...etc '' , diminishing so quickly , it forces you to play more aggressive , also the pots are bigger from the beginning to trigger a lot more action from aggressive players .

It really sucks , if they want to destroy zoom game , they do just fine . I see a lot less players on 2nl zoom , guess not only by the less isolation and restriction measures , lol . It reminds me of casino spins , you bet all the time , every spin , every hand , lol . I think I will find another fun game , zoom is not fun for me anymore . Thank you pokerstars ...........

Played it just now , it sucks . I guess in 6 max it's also worse .... , but 6max has a lot more action than 9max in any case ...hmmm...Maybe I will try once more 6max before I quit zoom for ever .......
 
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Bullshit move imo. I moved from zoom to regular games this year though, thank god. Probably going to cash out my roll and forget poker at the end of the summer. The coronavirus brought fish back to the table but they're all gone now and it's a joke.
 
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The game has become more aggressive.
It seems to me that the ranges have become more loose.
Each 5 hand is a preflop all-in.
The stack melts before our eyes and sit waiting for hands to catch fish once ...:(:(:(
 
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Only ZOOM I play is the Freerole on Saturday (for German players)

Yes it is very aggressive, not only in the beginning but all the way to a final table when it stops to switch tables. But it is not to bad if you can survive the all ins.

The only thing i don't like is how it places you to the next table, it often happens that i'm switched from UTG to UTG, and again to UTG, and then to SB, UTG, BB, UTG, BB....
 
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The same ante for 2nl , the same as for 5nl and 10nl , this is a joke . I play 2nl , half small blind to pay every hand is tooo much .

I see my stack being reduced so fast .... Nt good , not funny , with xzoom I want to see many hands , have fun gouing from the one hand to the other, not to be pushed and forced to go all in very soon , due to small stack because of this ante .This sucks ,

I had winning session first time yesterday , 5.5 buyins , but this doesn't mean anyhting . Fun is over , might check again regular normal cash games ,without ante .

I saw the note from pokerstars , that this is in test mode , they want more action , bigger pots , more shoves-all ins . That's crazy man , They don';t have the right to do sth like this , I don't think this is a demand from the players so as for pokerstars to do so .......They are so greedy ....
 
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hi

hello Zoom with Ante on Pokerstars i didnt play never zoom games im playing just tournament and some times cash
 
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I just saw it today on 1 cent 2 cent, the ante is too big in my opinion - it is one cent = a small blind every hand! You lose a small blind every time you fold.
Play a tight normal game and your stack is vanishing fast!
Is it part of the strategy by Stars to make the games crazier, more variance etc.
 
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Stars is trying to kill poker.
 
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this is ridiculous PS now that the corona virus poker boom is over
Pokerstars must find new ways to atrract players not to destroy the game
its really a shame how greed can destroy
 
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I can't bluff with BIG pot.:(:(:(
so I don't like Ante.Ante let pot be big. too big.
 
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Thanks god i dont play zoom poker.
 
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I noticed that after the innovation with ante, traffic dropped noticeably, at least for NL2 :mad::mad::mad:
 
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I think that the traffic will decrease and that the ranges should be higher to attract more players in the profile of the game, I do not like it at all
 
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I like the 45 player stg, 5 or 7 uss, shorter and with a good percentage of profit !!
 
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It doesn´t matter. I´ll be harder to chase to big rasies. However, the condition will be applied to everyone.
 
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Zumm is a highly dispersed game for success in which discipline, patience, caution and time are needed, and the ante further increases the variance.
Previously, rakeback helped reduce dispersion, but now it's just fun ...
 
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I don't have the habit of playing zoom, but sometimes it's always fun.
 
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