Revolution to Introduce “Fair Play Technology” to Separate Players by Ability

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Revolution to Introduce “Fair Play Technology” to Separate Players by Ability
Joining the player segregation party: A Network-wide policy will categorize players based on skill level


The Revolution Gaming Network will implement a new system, dubbed “Fair Play Technology,” that will categorize poker players based on skill level and prevent some players from playing against others players, representatives announced today.

The details on how players will be segregated have not yet been divulged. According to one representative, the new system will go into effect from next week....
 
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Thanks for the heads up, yet again!

I'm trying my best to stay optimistic with Lock, due to such short selection in poker rooms, but this is unacceptable.

I saw the bit about the possibility of PartPoker adjusting their settings, as well..
..I hope this doesn't screw everything up all together. :(
 
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Speaks to the current state of the game when all any room is trying to do anymore is keep the fish from going broke. This is just another nail in the coffin of OLP.

RIP
 
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Sounds a little turded. Someone suggested that this is designed to allow fish to hang onto their bankrolls long enough for the sites to rake more off of them. I think it's double crapped. I mean returded, like a shitty idea that was dumb enough when the first person thought of it that it shouldn't have been repeated. That is unless the subject of the conversation wasn't "how we can make the game easier for bad players", but "how we can increase our profit". The game is easy enough already. Everybody knows that the worst players get the luckiest. This one is down there somewhere with anonymous tables.
 
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Revolution is Former Cake?.

I agree on try to save fish but screwing regs is not the way .Fish supossed to be casual players, meaning less rake than multitabling regs. So not understand the thinking if this mean regs just gona leave site.

Years back when fish ratio was bigger than regs sure, give preference to fish, but this days where games are tougher and less fish every time punishing regs only mean destroy rest of player pool on this sites.

I read that Party doing the same, so really hope Stars don´t end doing this too.


 
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Gotta be the stupidest thing I ever heard of. And won't the players at the bottom of the heap be insulted? No one believes he/she is a bad player, but now the sites will tell them that they are bad? OMG And I will be rated as bad, no doubt
 
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In thinking about this, I hope I WILL be rated as bad, If I am forced to play only against the good players, I'd have to quit. I already lose enough to the whole population as is!!
 
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Bovada is starting to look a lot better.
 
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Wow. How are they even planning on segregating players by skill level??

But this seems like a plan to change the win-rate distribution from one that goes across zero and extends in both directions to one that is almost entirely below zero due to rake. No one will have hugely negative win-rates, but no one will have particularly good ones either...
 
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Going to play my first 10k hands with 80 VIP at 4nl, get my fishy tag, crush bitches at higher stakes
 
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" 'This plan still allows the overlapping of player types to ensure the liquidity remains strong at all levels and the natural flow of funds through the poker ecology still occurs.'

Lock plans to release education information to explain the new system over the next two weeks."

If it's segregating by ability then no, it doesn't allow that. And why do I feel like "education information to explain the new system" is "give them some bullshit to try to explain this bullshit so they don't all leave."

>.<
 
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So I wonder how many people will think they should be placed in the higher skilled category but wind up in the group with the lower-skilled players?

Could be a few damaged egos...

I also wonder if they will have a 'relegation' system similar to European soccer? If you are in the top category but lose all the time you'll be relegated to the amateur table. Likewise, if you crush the amateur table, you'll move up.

Interesting approach, to say the least.
 
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pok·er2 [poh-ker] noun


1. a game designed specifically to allow smart
people to take money from stupid people.

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This is sickening. What happened to capitalism?! Good players have the right to take money from bad players. Poker is a game of SKILL. Good players win bad players lose it's simple. There's fish and sharks. Sharks need to eat fish, it's the way of the world. Survival of the fittest is a belief of mine. Darwin was a smart man and now they want to separate good and bad players? It's crazy! Such a turn off from revolution. U won't catch me depositing there ever
 
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After reading both the OP reference links, I think this will tend to move a lot of players from ring to tourney games.

They also read, IMHO, as if the noobs will be able to play almost any table, but the regs will likely have to wait for the fish to choose their tables.
 
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After reading both the OP reference links, I think this will tend to move a lot of players from ring to tourney games.

They also read, IMHO, as if the noobs will be able to play almost any table, but the regs will likely have to wait for the fish to choose their tables.

This is most likely my plan for my Lock roll...
 
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Playing online poker seems to be very slowly becoming an -EV proposition. Hell, NLHE already is a -EV proposition unless you're a top pro -- it's too popular, and too many people know NL strategy already. And just as I decided to get into it... oh well.

Best stick to live venues then, eh?
 
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This is the dumbest thing yet~! Dare I ask, What will they think of next? UGGGGGG!
 
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This is the dumbest thing yet~! Dare I ask, What will they think of next? UGGGGGG!
Yup!

Makes you wonder where some of these sites hire their staff?? After BF there were some great oppurtunities for some of the sites/networks to jump on a good chunk of change (or to at least get their shyt together to be competitive). Merge gets on it but too slowly (& then fks that up) and the others just seem to continue to do one stupid thing after another (Cake/Revolution, iPoker & Bodonka with the anon tables). Is hiring criteria limited to high school dropouts or what?
 
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Yup!

Makes you wonder where some of these sites hire their staff?? After BF there were some great oppurtunities for some of the sites/networks to jump on a good chunk of change (or to at least get their shyt together to be competitive). Merge gets on it but too slowly (& then fks that up) and the others just seem to continue to do one stupid thing after another (Cake/Revolution, iPoker & Bodonka with the anon tables). Is hiring criteria limited to high school dropouts or what?
See the things is that they have no choice. The state of OLP in the US since BF is HORRID. Fish aren't depositing. People are leaving the game. This is the end and all these moves (anon tables, segregating player pools, limiting cashouts, ending rakeback, closing skins, eliminating regs, etc.) are just meant to prolong the inevitable. The sites that cater to small player pools (ie US players) are DONE!
 
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See the things is that they have no choice. The state of OLP in the US since BF is HORRID. Fish aren't depositing. People are leaving the game. This is the end and all these moves (anon tables, segregating player pools, limiting cashouts, ending rakeback, closing skins, eliminating regs, etc.) are just meant to prolong the inevitable. The sites that cater to small player pools (ie US players) are DONE!

Nice prognosis :(
 
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Got to thinking about how they might do this, and it seems to me that the ability for the sites to read our computers will make it easy for them to know whether or not we use a tracker. Perhaps even if it is not even running.

So more than likely they would separate us into "has a tracker" and "doesn't know what a tracker is" camps, and provide games accordingly.
 
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See the things is that they have no choice. The state of OLP in the US since BF is HORRID. Fish aren't depositing. People are leaving the game. This is the end and all these moves (anon tables, segregating player pools, limiting cashouts, ending rakeback, closing skins, eliminating regs, etc.) are just meant to prolong the inevitable. The sites that cater to small player pools (ie US players) are DONE!
I hope you're wrong, I really, really do.
 
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Something like this is on Pure Play it doesn't work there, and I doubt if it work on Rev.. But who knows!
 
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