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Chemist
Legend
Silver Level
I have not played on Poker Stars for over a year now and this rake increase only proves I was right.
Their reward scheme, those stupid chests, is a joke, I can remember when PS actually gave 30% rake, wow that seems like a million years ago.
I am lucky as I still have a 30% rake account with Betfair. I hate the software but in the end the rake makes me, a not very good player, just able to break even, which aint bad for playing something I love.
Similar story here, I was so annoyed at the last rake increase and change from a reasonable rakeback and reward scheme to the daft chests, challenges and star awards, non of which provided any interest to participate in hence effectively further increasing the cost, so I practically stopped paying. Before that I was motivated to try and maintain silver star and collect the fpp and vpp rewards and play the silver star freerolls and cardschat 100vpp $$ added buyins.
Unfortunately after rational group it was clear the new ownership was less interested in poker and preferred to develop sports betting, casino games and even more chance variants of poker like spin and go. In my opinion they were damaging the two biggest brands in poker and should have kept the original core business focused and developed the other things separately if they really wanted to expand in those directions as I repeatedly told them in the surveys which I took the time to complete for them.
Still it is their business choice, if it works for them then so be it, I'll have to do something else with my two cents.
