Originally Posted by celtic123

What do you plan to do about the 9/6 nits that plague 2NL fr since the Americans stopped showing up ?

Originally Posted by celtic123

What do you plan to do about the 9/6 nits that plague 2NL fr since the Americans stopped showing up ?

Originally Posted by pokerfan

Can i get the equivalence of 31% rakeback if i maintain platinumstar vip every month? I know you have VIP and stellar rewards. I left about $1k funds in my stars account since last year but think about moving to another network site coz i'm not supernova any more.

Originally Posted by PokerStars VIP

Hi Pokerfan. If you specify what games and volume you typically play, I can give you a more detailed breakdown of what rewards you can expect. But generally, if you're maintaining PlatinumStar and playing Full Ring you can expect 31% in rewards, for 6max and Sit n Gos/MTTs you'll be earning 28%. If you did re-achieve Supernova status, you'd see a significant bump.

Keep in mind, no MGR deductions go against your rewards so this is a true representation of the percentage you receive.

Originally Posted by celtic123

What do you plan to do about the 9/6 nits that plague 2NL fr since the Americans stopped showing up ?

Originally Posted by Icanhastreebet

Why did you guys doom switch me?

Originally Posted by Keith

cos you can't win anything that could have a monetary value.

Originally Posted by supa

Yeah, but this is obv a stars rule and has nothing to do with the U.S. in general. I mean, an american can pay a monthly fee to the WPT site and play for cash and prizes legally so there's really no reason for stars to not allow us to play for free also. Except for the fact that it's prolly a huge pain in the ass to keep track of and cash out the nanorolls that a freetroller might win. So it seems more of a logistical thing, yeah?

Fwiw, I'm still a big fan of stars and commend everyone involved for getting our rolls back to us in a somewhat timely manner, and will be one of the first in the line of masses to deposit if we ever get the opportunity to play there again.

Originally Posted by Nekrogovner

I have a question. Why don't you have NL2 and NL5 40-100BB USD tables, but only EURO ones?

Originally Posted by celtic123

Hi Dylan C,

I need to earn 59 VPP by the 15th of July to qualify for my ps100 Bonus (if I understand this scheme). Have you any idea how many hands I must play at 2NL or 5NL to achieve this?


Im comfy 4-10 tabling.

Originally Posted by scott_owen

I would love to see some lower stakes HU tables.. I've never been one for the HU-SNG's so would love it if I could play 10NL and 25NL HU.. i'm sure people would be keen for 5 as well, though i think that and 2nl would be far too much of a crap shoot for my liking..

Originally Posted by Micro2Macro

I'm not sure if this has anything to do with your job, but something needs to be done about those who abuse the sit out button at high stakes (10/20+).

Originally Posted by Numbr2intheWorld

Is it true that pstars takes screenshots of your comp sometimes when you play?

Originally Posted by reDZill4

just live streams i think?

Originally Posted by PokerStars VIP

Below is an announcement about recent changes to the game speed. I'll be happy to discuss any of these changes in this thread and pass along any input.

After listening to player feedback, we have enacted changes in the PokerStars software to speed up dealing in certain situations. A few other related changes have been made as well, though in most cases the time a player has to act on their hand has not been affected. Read below for more details.

Non-Satellite Sit & Go Tournaments

Hyper Turbo Sit & Go Tournaments are most affected by the changes. Players in these tournaments will have 12 seconds to act on their hand instead of 16. Several other dealing speed improvements including time taken between hands and speed of dealing cards once players are all-in have also been made.

All other Sit & Go tournaments have had dealing speed reduced, but not quite as much. Cards dealt after all action is complete due to players being all-in are now dealt twice as fast. The time between all hands being shown or mucked and the next hand being dealt has also been reduced by one second per hand.

Players in regular speed Sit & Go’s will now have 16 seconds to act on their hand, reduced from 18 seconds.

The time taken to start dealing after all players have registered and been seated has been reduced for many popular Sit & Go tournaments. Many Heads-up and Hyper speed tournaments now start after only a 10 second delay. Other popular tournaments start after 20 seconds.

Scheduled Tournaments, Satellites, and Step Tournaments

Dealing speed has been increased in these tournaments similar to the changes made in Sit & Go’s. Cards dealt after all action is complete due to players being all-in are now dealt twice as fast. The time between all hands being shown or mucked and the next hand being dealt has also been reduced by one second per hand.

Players in some tournaments will experience slightly different amounts of time to act on their hand. This is as a result of standardizing this setting across all tournaments.

Hyper-turbo satellites have been sped up drastically. These satellites will run at the same speed as hyper-turbo cash S&Gs.

These changes will not take place for all future tournaments, but will instead filter their way into the tournament schedule over the next few weeks.

Ring Games

As with all tournaments, cards dealt after all action is complete due to players being all-in are now dealt twice as fast. The time between all hands being shown or mucked and the next hand being dealt has also been reduced by one second per hand.

The delay prior to dealing the first hand of a session at a table has been reduced from 15 seconds to 10 seconds.

The changes to ring games will not have a significant impact on the number of hands played per hour at this point in time. PokerStars is considering further changes that may include changes to the amount of time players have to act on their hand.

Comments about playing experience at ring game tables are appreciated. In particular, if there is anything about the ring game experience other than players’ time to act that seems too slow or too fast we’d love to know.

Request for Comments

While PokerStars never stops considering player feedback, in this case we are particularly interested in response to these changes. Additional tweaks are possible if desired by players as a whole. Thanks in advance for any constructive suggestions.

Thanks to all players who have already provided input that helped us make this round of changes. Special thanks to all of those who helped test these settings on PokerStars.test and provided helpful input.


Dylan C

Originally Posted by Penneywize

Rake at nano stakes / micro stakes PLO is ridic high, what up with that?

Originally Posted by scott_owen

rake at any game micro/nano is ridic.

is pretty easy to argue that if the rake was say 3% vs 5% more people in the 5nl 10nl games would be winners and move up, leading to equivalent or more profit for pstars and a bigger player pool generally since it would be easier to win consistently and many losers would become break even.

and even if it reduced pstars profit they'd still be rolling in cash..

Originally Posted by celtic123

What about dropping the dollar symbol ?

Originally Posted by Imthenewfish

i think he meant removing USD from the site because people in the U.S. can't play but i could be really wrong :s