Andyreas
Moderator
Moderator
Just to let you know:
I recently registered there and I cannot find any classical SnGs.
The only offer Spin & Go with 3 or 6 players or All-in or fold tables. So a useless room when you want to focus on SnGs.
I recently registered there and I cannot find any classical SnGs.
The only offer Spin & Go with 3 or 6 players or All-in or fold tables. So a useless room when you want to focus on SnGs.
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fundiver199
Legend
Loyaler
Regarding 888 Poker they recently gave me $13, because I alledgedly played in games, where someone was cheating, like a year ago (have not played there in 2022). Last night the PS server was briefly down (again) with all tournaments being paused or cancelled (again), so I thought, this was a good time to log on to 888 Poker and spend the money, they gave me. $5 turbo 9-man, $3 turbo 9-man and $3 hyperturbo 6-man it was.
I min-cashed in the former two, so still have around $13 and change. But in the $3 turbo 9-man, I strongly felt, two regs were colluding against me, when we were down to 3 players, the rake is very high, and the structure very fast and therefore bad. And the software for the SnG lobby is awfull compared to pokerstars. So I certainly dont see any compelling case to play SnGs on 888 Poker rather than PokerStars. Which is the same conclusion, I arrived at years ago, but always nice to get it confirmed
I min-cashed in the former two, so still have around $13 and change. But in the $3 turbo 9-man, I strongly felt, two regs were colluding against me, when we were down to 3 players, the rake is very high, and the structure very fast and therefore bad. And the software for the SnG lobby is awfull compared to pokerstars. So I certainly dont see any compelling case to play SnGs on 888 Poker rather than PokerStars. Which is the same conclusion, I arrived at years ago, but always nice to get it confirmed
Kinalha
Legend
Platinum Level
What planet you live? GGpoker have a double people playing(minimum)
Andyreas
Moderator
Moderator
I keep thinking about this.
Is there a possibility that you simply exceeded the 28 days period for the 'regressed chests'?
You have to win 7 within 28 days for the upgrade. So I assume if it has been 29 days since a chest has been won, it is deducted from the total.
I am currently observing my chest count since I'll not manage to win 7 chests within 28 days and I assume once I exceed the 28 day period, they'll remove one chest from the progress.
This is automatic and no manipulation.
Suns of Beaches
With a Balloon to the Moon
Bronze Level
Yes and he really thinks a pokerstars employer would login to his Account and did something with his chest 😆I keep thinking about this.
Is there a possibility that you simply exceeded the 28 days period for the 'regressed chests'?
You have to win 7 within 28 days for the upgrade. So I assume if it has been 29 days since a chest has been won, it is deducted from the total.
I am currently observing my chest count since I'll not manage to win 7 chests within 28 days and I assume once I exceed the 28 day period, they'll remove one chest from the progress.
This is automatic and no manipulation.
Andyreas
Moderator
Moderator
I always find it interesting to read other people's opinions.So I certainly dont see any compelling case to play SnGs on 888 Poker rather than PokerStars. Which is the same conclusion, I arrived at years ago, but always nice to get it confirmed
I haven't really digged deep into the PS SnGs yet, but to me, the SnGs on 888 seem much softer. 🤔
Whenever I won a ticket to a SnG on PS or played one (except the on-demand ones with more players), I didn't manage to go far. 😅
While on 888, I managed to cash and even win a few 1$, 3$ or 5$ SnGs. But to be fair, my game volume is 95% MTTs and only around 5% SnGs.
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fundiver199
Legend
Loyaler
That might be, but for me its not enough to compensate for higher rake for most limits, a faster structure and much less activity and game selection.
azteca6
Rock Star
Bronze Level
This is what happens when it happens lately, another platform has been treating me very badly and I have also decided to relax for a while so as not to be so constant because it's so obvious that I'm going to lose that I'm just going to see the table and go out
Andyreas
Moderator
Moderator
Not sure if you're even reading this but I can confirm what was expected, happened today:I am currently observing my chest count since I'll not manage to win 7 chests within 28 days and I assume once I exceed the 28 day period, they'll remove one chest from the progress.
This is automatic and no manipulation.
I won my first chest on 4th Oct, 21:42 CET and my second one on 22th Oct, 14:19 CET, so I was at 2/7 chest until this evening, after exactly one month, the first chest dropped out of the period and I am back to 1/7 chests.
Normal phenomen to have the chest count decline, if a chest has been won more than a month ago.
Suns of Beaches
With a Balloon to the Moon
Bronze Level
I just played with OP in the freeroll-club on stars. Im really not surprised that he is loosing at 5 or 10 dollar sit and goes the way he plays. But its for sure the fault of pokerstars.
Danaire72
Enthusiast
Silver Level
I really respect the decision of each person, and they will have their reasons, but in particular for me one of the best and most reliable poker rooms that exist in the world, it is poker stars, without a doubt it is the best, that many times one complains about things that happen in the middle of the table playing, that's the variance " but otherwise the best and most reliable poker room is PokerStars.
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cjd2020
Rising Star
Bronze Level
I have been having issues with the pokerstars here in NJ. What they seem to be doing should be against all business practices and at the very least should be liable for false advertising. I started having a problem with pokerstars after i started a home games league with friends and co workers. After the first tourney it tracked everything it was supposed to but then stopped tracking anything after that. Also yes i have the right boxes checked every tourney for making sure it counts towards standings and its real money not play money. I contacted customer support only to find out they do not have a contact number of any kind for the nj pokerstars. You are forced to talk to a robot and all they tell you is that the programmers are aware of it and are working on the issue. However they are not because if you do a lil digging this problem has been going on for years now. I am not forced to do all the points and standings by hand while they still rake me and my poker club for everything we do within the club. We do $11 buy in tourneys and they take the dollar off the top of every buy in and even if we play cash games set up for the league we get raked. My thing is how can you rake us when you are not holding up your end of the bargain and doing what you advertised which is tracking the stats and standings. This is what i told to customer service and the response i got was there is unfortunately nothing we can do about it on our end. I then stated i may be better off talking to the better business bureau about this which they responded again there is nothing we can do about this on our end. Thats when things got a lil shady because the next day when i turned on my cpu it showed my internet connection didnt exist which i found odd so i restarted my cpu unplugged and plugged back in my internet/wifi adapter and after noticing my internet was working just fine i went into pokerstars nj. My login info was no longer saved had to rewrite in my email and obviously my password which is not saved for obvious reasons. Then after logging in the software acted as this was my first time ever on the site showing me tips and what this button does ect. Ect. which anyone who remembers the first time logging on will know what i mean. I thought this was odd but oh well let me go play my cash games. Mind you last month i decided to log on and see if i had any free money or tournament tickets and i saw i had two. $1 spin and go tickets. I used the one ticket and spin for $10 and won that spin and go and from there built my account up to $250 from cash games at 1 cent 2 cent 5 cent 10 cent and my poker league once a week tournament. However now i am down to $200 and thinking about cashing out and never returning. Every cash game i play now is same result. I am losing with super premium hands to another super premium hand or just getting sucked out on as an 80% or higher favorite. I know all about variance as i have played poker for a long time but this is different. In just a 30 min session and 5 cent 10 cent this is how i lost $50. I raised 10-7 hearts 2.5x preflop and flop came out 7-7-q long story short he had pocket queens whatever it happens. A few mins later at another table and i have 10 tables open at this point all 5 cent 10 cent…i raise pocket Aces preflop 3.5x and get 1 caller flop is A-5-9 i check player goes all in and i snap call for full effective stack and player shows 5-9 turn 5 river 5. Ok very rare but again happens. A few mins later at another table i limp in 10-j spades in sb against only bb flop comes 10-10-k i bet bb shoves and again i call with full stack effective player shows pocket kings. Now i am down over $30 at a stake i am rarely ever down more than $15 at any given point in just 15 mins and i am started to feel something is off. 15 more mins into the session i lose 2 more full effective stacks one with a flopped nut straight against a player with top pair and the runout gave him a boat and the other was flopped 2nd nut flush to flopped nut flush. Now what i believe is the AI/ algorithm the site uses knows if your a winning profitable player or even just a tight or loose player and absolutely use site bots to manipulate this. I believe this because every play who took my stack in that 30 min session fit the profile of a possible site bot. I understand it could all be a coincidence that i threatened to go to the better business bureau then all of a sudden my account seems to be reset to first time player and my internet adapter shuts off and then my first session since the convo i had with customer service seems to be just a tad bit unbelievable to say the least. However i have a hard time believing in that coincidence. Let me know what u guys think or have any questions.
Suns of Beaches
With a Balloon to the Moon
Bronze Level
^Yeah u are on to something very very big here. They resetted ur account and activated the infamous "doomswitch" on it because u threatened them with the better business bureau.
Not too much u can do imo. Similar stuff happened to OP (who still plays there). Tough times.
All trolling aside: u just ran super hot, running up 250 from basically nothing and now the variance kicks in. Poker is a game where u will run bad more often than not and this is happening just now after ur sunrun. u not seem to understand this and now others are at fault (pokerstars). my recommendation to u would be to just be happy u were able to make a profit and work on ur mental game/game in general.
Not too much u can do imo. Similar stuff happened to OP (who still plays there). Tough times.
All trolling aside: u just ran super hot, running up 250 from basically nothing and now the variance kicks in. Poker is a game where u will run bad more often than not and this is happening just now after ur sunrun. u not seem to understand this and now others are at fault (pokerstars). my recommendation to u would be to just be happy u were able to make a profit and work on ur mental game/game in general.
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fundiver199
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As for your results losing in poker is completely normal and expected, as Suns of Beaches say. As for customer service for sure they have an email or contact form? So why you need to talk to someone? Finally please insert some line shifts next time. A wall of text like this is almost unreadable
Suns of Beaches
With a Balloon to the Moon
Bronze Level
it was actually a very hard read and my eyes started to hurt a bit doing so. but it was very clear after reading that he ran super hot to even win something if u ask me.As for your results losing in poker is completely normal and expected, as Suns of Beaches say. As for customer service for sure they have an email or contact form? So why you need to talk to someone? Finally please insert some line shifts next time. A wall of text like this is almost unreadable
Poker Orifice
FoolsTilt
Platinum Level
OP played the $10's for just one week (Aug.3 - Aug.10/2022, ~450 games). As far as losing in them... I think you might be right.
It must've been so disappointing for them as I believe they'd been beating the $1's & $2's prior to this.
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fundiver199
Legend
Loyaler
And its not like, OP has been crushing it on other sites either. Or at least not those, where we know his username from CC. So apparently it did not solve the problem to leave PokerStars
Suns of Beaches
With a Balloon to the Moon
Bronze Level
Guy quitted his job to become a professional sng grinder and ran super hot at the beginning (70-120 dollars daily on 5-10 $ sng`s he said, its like 10-20 buy-ins up per day!) but before he had built up an understanding about variance/samplesize and after a mean forum post, stars had enough of him and turned on the doomswitch 😂
I doubt that there are any sng pros with less than 10k games but i have to say almost 500 fullring games in one week is pretty strong.
The big downswing is inevitable as soon as u start to play many games and he was definitely not able to handle it (which is very understandable, its very tough). Now he could have learnt from it and move on or he could have made a silly forum post that is about him being a victim, thinking he is a pro, everything is rigged and he is leaving pokerstars (which he did not, at least in cardschat games i still saw him after).
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fundiver199
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But at least he opted out of sharkscope, so that you can no longer find any information there about his PokerStars account
Poker Orifice
FoolsTilt
Platinum Level
This guy has it all figured out! ... there ain't no foolin' him! (Probably knows way more than even all the guys who are playin' the $10k SCOOP buyin... bunch of dummies those high stakes MTT players are wastin' their moniezz to play the Fake Pokerz... I'm guessin' they're either just real dumb or they like that 'extra excitement')
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fundiver199
Legend
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Not to mention those dumb SnG grinders, who top out on the Sharkscope leaderboard. What do they know compared to someone, who have taken more than a year to play his first 143 games on Stars?
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fundiver199
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According to Sharkscope it has taken you more than a year to play your first 143 games on PokerStars. If you were willing to put in some more time and effort, you might see better results