In search of some high-stakes money sport motion at GGPoker? It is going to assist to know somebody, in keeping with latest studies.
The net poker web site, which just lately accomplished a purchase order of the WSOP, has determined that every one video games above $10-$20 will now be run by personal hosts and are invitation-only affairs. Gamers should now first contact a bunch to be authorized and seated in one of many video games.
Why would an internet web site wish to restrict who performs of their greatest video games? It’s the identical motive why high-stakes stay video games have develop into extra privatized lately. Merely put, the sharks eat the fish, and when there too many sharks, the fish get eaten too rapidly. And the feeding frenzy will get amplified once you exchange the fish with a whale.
When professionals are lining as much as play in opposition to sure rich, high-stakes amateurs, it may usually be unhealthy for the sport. And if the sport is unhealthy, it doesn’t run. And if the sport isn’t operating, the operator isn’t pleased.
Gamers Criticize The Transfer
A GGPoker consultant has acknowledged that the change got here on the request of high-stakes gamers, nonetheless the transfer was not obtained effectively by others. Posters on the TwoPlusTwo boards stated that GG is appearing as a monopoly by limiting the alternatives for anybody to play at increased stakes.
“Now they’re making a shift to not even permit the regs an opportunity within the first place, funneling any professionals who nonetheless wish to or are compelled to play on their web site into decrease stakes which might be raked much more and with the ability to have full management over leisure gamers on their web site and the place their cash goes,” one TwoPlusTwo member famous.
“Successfully it kills the dream folks have of watching high-stakes regs battling it out for tons of cash hoping to finish up of their footwear sooner or later – the identical route stay poker has taken, making all excessive stakes public video games virtually out of date, letting a small quantity of people that management the sport accumulate all the cash off recreationals they recruit into their closed doorways environments.”
A few of the video games now provided will even require gamers to VPIP (voluntarily put in pot) at a excessive sufficient price or face a ban. Different video games will power tighter gamers (nits) to pay a penalty for failing to win a pot.
Different TwoPlusTwo members famous that the transfer shields inferior gamers from having to presumably play in opposition to higher gamers. One other participant echoed the phrases of others by declaring that gamers should now know somebody or be a pleasant “match” to get in a sport.
“Fairly unhappy, on-line poker was once the actual meritocracy,” the participant famous on Twitter. “In the event you thought you have been the perfect, you could possibly sit within the foyer vs. the perfect on the highest stakes. Now it is going to be stay poker type politics.”
