PokerStars significantly reduce time banks.

Tikay10

In yet another move to move away from the Big Boys & appeal more to recreational players, PokerStars are reducing time banks by up to 55%. This is effective Monday 5th February.

Here's the PokerNews article;


https://uk.pokernews.com/news/2019/02/pokerstars-speeds-up-cash-games-33809.htm?itm_content=pn-hp-hero-1

JJBinks

Good news for the recreational player's, their money/playing experience will last that bit longer and Stars bottom line will increase with more hands played, not so good if you are Reg using poker to try and make money from multi tabling cash games.

mumsie

Looks like Stars are adjusting to Skypoker and preparing to dock.

JJBinks

I would like to see Stars get on top of baning Huds and any tracking 3rd party software, that would be great for the poker eco system, and introducing anonymous tables at some point.

MattBates

JJBinks said:

I would like to see Stars get on top of baning Huds and any tracking 3rd party software, that would be great for the poker eco system, and introducing anonymous tables at some point.

Given how good stars seems to be with security etc (at least historically) this seems to be something they could do and actually give some confidence that they were banned whereas with other sites you worry that bans stop the legit guys and others will find workarounds and have an unfair advantage.

MISTY4ME

MattBates said:

JJBinks said:

I would like to see Stars get on top of baning Huds and any tracking 3rd party software, that would be great for the poker eco system, and introducing anonymous tables at some point.

Given how good stars seems to be with security etc (at least historically) this seems to be something they could do and actually give some confidence that they were banned whereas with other sites you worry that bans stop the legit guys and others will find workarounds and have an unfair advantage.

WELL DONE last night Matt ......Very nice BINK.

Mines a Pint of nice Lager..... hopefully you'll be in Manchester this weekend

kapowblamz

Every time Stars announce anything it always includes a back door revenue increase in disguise as something good for players, not that we should expect anything different from a traded company.

A_r_K

JJBinks said:

I would like to see Stars get on top of baning Huds and any tracking 3rd party software, that would be great for the poker eco system, and introducing anonymous tables at some point.

They must want to ban huds at his point but probably unsure how to implement without some programming geniuses finding work around. Personally hate huds and think there against spirit of the game . If recreational players knew where playing multi tabling nit hud users with all these different stats and results logged think most would run a mile. Maybe decent option would be to incorporate basic hud into pokerstars software so everyone gets chance to use one.

Angmar2626

A_r_K said:

JJBinks said:

I would like to see Stars get on top of baning Huds and any tracking 3rd party software, that would be great for the poker eco system, and introducing anonymous tables at some point.

They must want to ban huds at his point but probably unsure how to implement without some programming geniuses finding work around. Personally hate huds and think there against spirit of the game . If recreational players knew where playing multi tabling nit hud users with all these different stats and results logged think most would run a mile. Maybe decent option would be to incorporate basic hud into pokerstars software so everyone gets chance to use one.

Think Run It Once Poker (if it ever gets out of the testing stage) is planning on doing something like this. No HUDs allowed but your avatar gets angrier looking or changes colour the more aggressively you play preflop and vica versa or something ha!

kapowblamz

Angmar2626 said:

Think Run It Once Poker (if it ever gets out of the testing stage) is planning on doing something like this. No HUDs allowed but your avatar gets angrier looking or changes colour the more aggressively you play preflop and vica versa or something ha!

RIO launches Wednesday. Will be a reg fest tho. No marketing as such yet apart from to poker savvies.

WeirdInnit

Have no problem with pokerstars banning software like seating scripts or huds or decreasing timebank but don’t think that will make much difference to how tough the fields are. Huds haven’t got that much better for a long time now but from looking at mtt win rates on stars they have dropped year on year at much faster rate than what I have seen at sky poker. Sky player pool not changed much whereas stars lost rich countries like france, spain, Italy, usa and gained more players from poorer countries. Players from low and middle income countries have way more incentive to take the game seriously, can see on sharkscope leaderboards where the winners are from., don’t blame them and is understandable. Banning all 3rd part software won’t change that incentive.

Sky poker player pool with stars software would be very good, maybe players from uk/Ireland could jump between each pool but cant see that happening. At very low limits having a table cap would be good to give recreational players a chance to win Also make it harder for staking groups to operate as they churn out so many pretty good players and read at times rumours of them sharing player data which seems wrong, some even have analysts to work out population tendencies and feed that back to the players in the group.

madprof

WeirdInnit said:

Have no problem with pokerstars banning software like seating scripts or huds or decreasing timebank but don’t think that will make much difference to how tough the fields are. Huds haven’t got that much better for a long time now but from looking at mtt win rates on stars they have dropped year on year at much faster rate than what I have seen at sky poker. Sky player pool not changed much whereas stars lost rich countries like france, spain, Italy, usa and gained more players from poorer countries. Players from low and middle income countries have way more incentive to take the game seriously, can see on sharkscope leaderboards where the winners are from., don’t blame them and is understandable. Banning all 3rd part software won’t change that incentive.

Sky poker player pool with stars software would be very good, maybe players from uk/Ireland could jump between each pool but cant see that happening. At very low limits having a table cap would be good to give recreational players a chance to win Also make it harder for staking groups to operate as they churn out so many pretty good players and read at times rumours of them sharing player data which seems wrong, some even have analysts to work out population tendencies and feed that back to the players in the group.

I prefer wearing a hat, rather than a hud

madprof

madprof said:

WeirdInnit said:

Have no problem with pokerstars banning software like seating scripts or huds or decreasing timebank but don’t think that will make much difference to how tough the fields are. Huds haven’t got that much better for a long time now but from looking at mtt win rates on stars they have dropped year on year at much faster rate than what I have seen at sky poker. Sky player pool not changed much whereas stars lost rich countries like france, spain, Italy, usa and gained more players from poorer countries. Players from low and middle income countries have way more incentive to take the game seriously, can see on sharkscope leaderboards where the winners are from., don’t blame them and is understandable. Banning all 3rd part software won’t change that incentive.

Sky poker player pool with stars software would be very good, maybe players from uk/Ireland could jump between each pool but cant see that happening. At very low limits having a table cap would be good to give recreational players a chance to win Also make it harder for staking groups to operate as they churn out so many pretty good players and read at times rumours of them sharing player data which seems wrong, some even have analysts to work out population tendencies and feed that back to the players in the group.

I prefer wearing a hat, rather than a hud

i'm being serious..genuinely, whats a hud?

Tikay10

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madprof said:

madprof said:

WeirdInnit said:

Have no problem with pokerstars banning software like seating scripts or huds or decreasing timebank but don’t think that will make much difference to how tough the fields are. Huds haven’t got that much better for a long time now but from looking at mtt win rates on stars they have dropped year on year at much faster rate than what I have seen at sky poker. Sky player pool not changed much whereas stars lost rich countries like france, spain, Italy, usa and gained more players from poorer countries. Players from low and middle income countries have way more incentive to take the game seriously, can see on sharkscope leaderboards where the winners are from., don’t blame them and is understandable. Banning all 3rd part software won’t change that incentive.

Sky poker player pool with stars software would be very good, maybe players from uk/Ireland could jump between each pool but cant see that happening. At very low limits having a table cap would be good to give recreational players a chance to win Also make it harder for staking groups to operate as they churn out so many pretty good players and read at times rumours of them sharing player data which seems wrong, some even have analysts to work out population tendencies and feed that back to the players in the group.

I prefer wearing a hat, rather than a hud

i'm being serious..genuinely, whats a hud?

HUD = Heads Up Display.

"Poker Tracker" is an example, see;


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PokerTracker

Basically, it retrieves, stores & shows all the information on the play that you & your opponents make, & it measures every conceivable stat, such as VPIP, does your opponent fold to flop & turn bets, position, and how profitable you & they are at any given seat on the table relative to the button. (e.g., it demonstrates that almost all of us are unprofitable when we play a hand from the Small Blind).

The nosebleed guys all use it, recreational players not so much.

Essentially, rather than use your eyes & wits to play poker, you become a data analyst.


This is what players get to see in real time;