Poker Stars...

[dreamer13]

They only need profits, they don’t care about players on forums, callous management, poker should unite, and not vice versa.

 

[fundiver199]

And then after eating free food at your store for MANY YEARS, they will take to Social Media and tell everyone that your store SUCKS and that you're going out of business. lol

Exactly. How about showing just a bit of gratitude and writing something like "thank you very much pokerstars for many good years" instead? But I guess, it just goes to show, how freerolls have become an entitlement rather than a priviledge for some people. And as already stated, that is likely a big part of the reason why, they are going away

 

[Poker Orifice]

Exactly. How about showing just a bit of gratitude and writing something like "thank you very much PokerStars for many good years" instead? But I guess, it just goes to show, how freerolls have become an entitlement rather than a priviledge for some people. And as already stated, that is likely a big part of the reason why, they are going away

And also a BIG reason why many of the freerollers are stuck at playing just freerolls.

I was pretty shocked to read so many of the comments on the forum to be honest. Such a short memory span.

 

[Poker Orifice]

Well they are not the most generous, but it's not like they give nothing.

Yesterday, I sat down in the big blind at a cash table, folded, won a chest for paying 1c of rake and instead of the normal powerpath ticket I got an $11 MTT ticket. That was nice!

And then on the weekend I played this huge freeroll where they gave out 47 tickets to the Sunday Million Anniv. game... and I WON!!!

 

[fundiver199]

And then on the weekend I played this huge freeroll where they gave out 47 tickets to the Sunday Million Anniv. game... and I WON!!!

Who wants a free ticket for that game? Its way more important, that its no longer possible to min-cash for $0,65 after nitting it out for 2½ hours in a CC freeroll

 

[Andyreas]

to min-cash for $0,65 after nitting it out for 2½ hours in a CC freeroll

Hey hey hey, the min-cash was always 1$, so that's 50% more!!!!!1111

🤣

 

[fundiver199]

Hey hey hey, the min-cash was always 1$, so that's 50% more!!!!!1111

🤣

Its been several years, since I was allowed to play freerolls on PokerStars. But I still remember some CC freerolls, where half the table was stalling, and the average stack got down to around 10BB, as the bubble approached. And I was like "seriously guys???" Apparently that dollar or whatever meant a lot to several forum members

 

[Suns of Beaches]

Its been several years, since I was allowed to play freerolls on PokerStars. But I still remember some CC freerolls, where half the table was stalling, and the average stack got down to around 10BB, as the bubble approached. And I was like "seriously guys???" Apparently that dollar or whatever meant a lot to several forum members

And absolutely nothing has changed. Actually things got worse. Some people were folding down to 0.01 BB and folding premiums near the bubble.

They even showed it sometimes. As if its something to be proud of....folding ak or pocket pairs like 88 with less than a big blind to mincash 1 dollar 🤣🤣🤣

Must have been fun for a total beginners playing in these tournaments. no wonder stars ditched them.

 

[Station_Master]

And then on the weekend I played this huge freeroll where they gave out 47 tickets to the Sunday Million Anniv. game... and I WON!!!

Exactly this
You must have seen the lobby!
Really chuffed, and a very good freeroll prize from a site that 'gives us nothing anymore'

 

[Poker Orifice]

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Exactly this
You must have seen the lobby!
Really chuffed, and a very good freeroll prize from a site that 'gives us nothing anymore'

OMG What a sh1tty site that is! (... will they have another one of those soon?)

 

[SpanRmonka]

The general reaction to Pokerstars removing the CC freerolls has been way way more severe than when GG removed their CC freerolls.

Just an interesting observation.

 

[puzzlefish]

Meh. Their freerolls just show that they aren't getting enough numbers signing up for their special SM for regular price.

 

[fundiver199]

The general reaction to Pokerstars removing the CC freerolls has been way way more severe than when GG removed their CC freerolls.

Just an interesting observation.

Maybe because the GG freerolls were only available to people, who had signed up to GG via an affiliate link? Which meant that a lot of forum members could not play them anyway.

 

[SpanRmonka]

Maybe because the GG freerolls were only available to people, who had signed up to GG via an affiliate link? Which meant that a lot of forum members could not play them anyway.

I think this definitely can account for some of the reaction.....more so for the volume of reaction. My thought was more about the level of the reaction per person.....I just find it rather weird.

I'm going to try and clarify using a poker phrase that you indirectly introduced to me in a post a few years ago. It changed the way I viewed poker quite a bit by the way, so cheers. Entitlement Tilt.
I think a lot of players felt/feel like the pokerstars freerolls were their right, rather than an amazing bonus, and their whole poker life was built around them. They are now suffering from Entitlement Tilt after they have been lost.

 

[puzzlefish]

Maybe because the GG freerolls were only available to people, who had signed up to GG via an affiliate link? Which meant that a lot of forum members could not play them anyway.

I think this definitely can account for some of the reaction.....more so for the volume of reaction. My thought was more about the level of the reaction per person.....I just find it rather weird

There is also that PS has had CC freerolls for much longer than GG and players have made those freerolls part of their routines. People do not like sudden changes to routines, especially when it is so petty from a large site such as PS.