The new multi-table limit policy came into effect on Tuesday, August 20 across all stakes but has only been applied to regular cash games including 6-max, full-ring, and heads-up. Smaller markets such as New Jersey and India have been untouched.
The idea behind this new policy is to reduce the time players take to act at the tables and ultimately improve the playing experience for all players.
Rasset did acknowledge that limiting multi-tabling to four tables will have an adverse effect on many players, especially those who play poker for a living. However, the company also believes that this will lead players to focus more on each table and create more action because players will be playing a wider range of hands and ultimately improve their win-rates.
As expected and predicted by Rasset, the move to limit ring game tables to four has not gone over well with some of the professional players. Many have complained that this move will lead to the downfall of full-ring tables and also force them to play more Zoom tables which have lower win rates.
The site took it a step further by anonymizing hand histories in October To effectively implement Seat Me and eliminate the practices of bumhunting and datamining, PokerStars had to make the difficult decision to end table observation.
That means poker fans will no longer be able to watch their favorite players compete in high-stakes games. The changes do take away some online poker elements that helped promote the game.
Particularly the ability to watch high-stakes, well-known players battle for massive amounts of money will go away. If this turns into a problem, one potential compromise would be to allow people to view only high-stakes tables.
As Rasset noted in his blog post, there is a certain give-and-take to all of these decisions. Half-heartedly addressing bum-hunting and data mining would have been worse than doing nothing at all. That could lead to unenforceable policies that virtuous players would abide by and rule-breakers would continue to exploit:. It ignites very passionate discussions as the decisions are often quite complex when we take in consideration our pool of players with different needs and desires, the historical precedence, the evolution of the game, the latest trends….
With so many customers who trust our products, we have to be particularly vigilant against tools or strategies used to gain an unfair advantage. We also need to be able to ensure that we create enforceable and sustainable policies, making sure that players who do follow the rules are not at a disadvantage. The good news is table observation was already fizzling out.
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