The Official "I Told You So PokerStars" Thread

[zachvac]

In terms of better customer service, for the last couple of months I've interacted with a lot of customer service areas ... some that are better than stars include: Absolute Poker, Bodog, iPoker

ok since you say the rest is irrelevant let's just stick with this.

First off ipoker does not serve the US at this point in time.

Second off Absolute? Really? The same people who insisted that the 95/5 or whatever dominating the high-stakes HU wasn't a cheater? The ones who continued to say they had investigated and were 100% sure there was no problem even when 2p2 guys had proved that through some means he was viewing hole cards? Apparently you have a different idea of the term customer service than I do. I tend to think it includes not outright lying to your customers, but that's just me.

 

[pantin007]

tbh, ive played on maybe 14 to 15 different sites and from what i have seen, nothing has compared to the speed and helpfullness of ps' support

the 9% traffic can be due to wsop and summer time doesnt tend to be the most active time of the year

 

[Dorkus Malorkus]

but zach that was a different management (honest)

 

[Jagsti]

Stars customer service is 1st class imo, the software is possibly one of the best as well. It has high traffic, and a variety of games that's second to none.

However, I am one of quite a few CC'ers who have left Stars for whatever reason that maybe, (mine is I just can't win there this year, compared to last year when everything went well).

 

[Airon20]

pokerstars makes a ton of money..think about the Sunday 1/4 million...30,000 people register..at a one dollar tourny fee...

that's 30,000 dollars in the period of an hour.

Plus there are always people on waiting lists ESPECIALLY for the high limits, the tourney's are always huge..I don't really think a 9% drop is really gonna hit them that hard..imo

 

[turby]

Well, from my point of view as a tourney+SNG player from the UK.. PS has the best volume.. partypoker has good volume too. FT.. goes w/o saying. These 3 sites have been my staple. I haven't dealt with customer service much but I think PP's really on the ball as they are quick to respond and all.

Why is FT the worse? (in what sense) I'm currently trying my hand out at 25NL there and also taking advantage of trulyfreepokertraining's offer on FT. That's the main reason why I chose FT over PS although.. I've got Plat star thanks to the MAY UK offer.

However, that said.. all very valid observations/interesting insights above me but look at it this way guys, we, the consumers benefit as the competitors fight it out. Discussions like this and consumer feedback can only mean better goodies for us! Better service too hopefully!

PP's reload bonuses/promotion galore! PS' UK offers! FT's poker training.. TBH i'm having problems choosing.

However, that's a perspective of a UK/Non-US small stakes/micro player who doesn't have to worry about earning money thru poker or worry about his government clamping down on such activities. :s

That's my 2 cents/pennies. I'll shut up now.

 

[eNTy]

Good post turby.
You're pretty much correct in every way.

For non us people there's so many awesome Bonus+rakeback offers out there it's pretty easy to earn some mega bucks without even winning at poker.

The only thing that always keeps me coming back to tilt+PS is their great software and costumer support(more stars than tilt, but RB on tilt is nice )

 

[konawajim]

well it is rigged..

They are all rigged

 

[BelgoSuisse]

So from my perspective, ya Stars is "the best site" for me but it's probably a close race with FTP ... since I've played at Stars for so long and getting funds off and on is such a pain/roll of the dice I'm sticking with it for now.

Transferring money from site to site is really not that hard when you have friends you can trade with. If that's what prevents you from switching site, you should reconsider, imo.

The main reason i dislike PS is that 200nl there is infested with regs who play ridiculous amounts of volume in order to reach supernova elite.

 

[Dorkus Malorkus]

people get SNE playing $200NL?

i want to kill myself merely thinking about how many hands that would take.

 

[BelgoSuisse]

people get SNE playing $200NL?

i want to kill myself merely thinking about how many hands that would take.

200nl is actually the game of choice for SNE wannabees. VPP/hand doesn't really go up that much beyond that, and it gets harder to 24-table at higher limits unless you're nanonoko.

iirc, that's about 2 million hands at FR, give or take a few 100k. 150k hands per month. 5k hands per day. If you play as a full time job, it's not that unrealistic.

 

[Dorkus Malorkus]

fair enough, but that doesn't make me want to kill myself any less while thinking about it.

 

[switch0723]

There are a couple of people who get SNE at 100nl, rennwurm being the prime example, whats even sicker about him is that he isn't even an fpp pro, he wins at like 3bb/100 aswell 24 tabling 10 hours a day