Again we have some new changes on Stars.

Last night i only played some mtts and non turbo Sngs.I will do that for a while because it was fun again.Always playing the Turbo Sngs had nothing to do with playing poker.To much push or fold and also the big variance sometimes.On Mtts yesterday i felt more excitement again,there was more decision the make and i needed to think again a little more.
Nice change ;}

So Stars changed now the 45 and 180 turbo buyins again.
On the 180s it makes more sense and the prizepool and rake looks better than before.
On the 45s they messed it up a bit.For example:

The rake increase on the 45s 7$buyin (before6.50$)  is really too big.I got on the 6.50s a 18% roi in this year which is 1.15$ per game.If i grind 3k games next month they cut 390$ extra rake from my winnings.
In my case im a supernova and i get 40% from this cut back,but the lower rank vips will get cheated here again and we have the same problem is harder for them to build a bankroll to move up in the limits.They will stuck in the same limit or maybe give up sooner.
If Pokerstar will listen to us more and decrease the rake a bit everybody will make more money.Also the break even players who only grind for rake back can get some winnings.The bad loosing players can stay longer in the system before they go broke and of course the Greedy Poker Sites will gain long term more money because the traffic will increase again and also new players get attracted!



It looks for me like a easy decision,so why they will not do this?
My theory is that the have agreements with other sites already,after they higher the rake the other sites will follow...Pokerstar is a company and they lost money because they lost the Americans.So now they try to get more money from the other players.
Reminds me on our Government they also steal more and more money daily from us ;]

I know it is not nice but we have not much choice,it will be definitely harder in the future to make a living out of online Poker.Maybe i will get better in mtts so i still can make good money and let them earn less,i dont have a better idea right now ;}
Wish you all well!
Heiko