Amaya. Good for the game - or bad?

[NoWuckingFurries]

When they raised the rake, they knew that we would not like it. We still have nowhere else to play, so it makes no sense to pretend that we are somewhere leave.

You speak for yourself. There are plenty of other poker sites for me to play at.

 

[greedisgood]

They will gain a lot of extra income by introducing sports&casinogames(news post last month) and probably the winrates for regs will go up.

as for the customer service, it's part of the pokerstar brand and they will keep improving it. they will keep improving their client to stay top of the segment. but they will increase rake as soon as they feel they added enough value to justify the higher price. They tought they did with the new client, and while the rake increase is postponed I believe it will increase once they added enough recreational players through the sport&casinogames.

For the business people/economics/investors among us, I would love to discuss the stock of Amaya so feel free to send me a pm Don't want to spam Nowuckingfurries's topic with stocktalk!

 

[mxinger]

Of course a business looks to make a profit. That's why they're in business. The purchase of PS is a good move - and it's obvious that they have the superior product, as everyone tries so very hard to keep them out (New Jersey, and California - I'm looking at you). Time will tell if they can get a foothold here...in the meantime, they'll do OK in the REST OF THE WORLD.

 

[jsh169]

No its not good for the game. I know alot of you are asking for regulation, but that is going to be even worse. Every edge you had just gets smaller by the day. The taxation on the companies are going to turn the fees onto us, meaning less rakeback or even none eventually. I can see a casual player winning a multi table tournament for a decent amount to get taxed on it, to only lose it back with in a few months, will wonder what he is doing, getting taxed while not even winning.