Tomas "MASURON1KE" Kubaliak about "WE ARE ALL IN" strike
Charles Hawk: What are your thoughts and feelings about PS RB changes in 2016? How it will affect the industry? And how it will affect specifically 6max hypers? Tell me about your initiative "WE ARE ALL IN".
Tomas "MASURON1KE" Kubaliak: I am not an expert in gaming industry, so I don't know exactly what is GTO solution for this problem, but it seems to me that latest changes in VIP program are not good for anyone, but PokerStars. Everyone will get less from rewards, while paying same rake. How it affects 6max hypers? Most of the players are losing pre-rakeback, so it will just not be worth for regs to play them at higher stakes. I also don't think it's great news for spins. From what I know there are also not many guys significantly winning at $100 stakes pre-rakeback (not talking about ev, but real results) after they banned Spinwiz. And high-stakes cash will be probably dead. So most of the players are going to move down, lower stakes will get tougher, we will play less tables, making less mistakes, etc.
Tomas "MASURON1KE" Kubaliak: That's why I decided to start WeAreAllin campaign, I just want to show PokerStars how many of their loyal customers disagree with changes and the way how they announced it. I don't care what we realisticly can achieve, but I know the fact players were playing so much and commited themselves to make SNE and now they have just 45% rakeback (same thing for guys going for SN and getting just 30% next year) is not okay. Also cutting rake for HS cash seems weird and I bet there were many guys who enjoyed railling those games. What are we going to do against these changes? We are just collecting signs, gaining attention of poker medias and starting social media campaign to explain what is going on. We would like to talk with Stars before the end of the year about reevaluating their changes and if they don't change anything, we are going to organize massive strike (at least week long) at start of the year, talk to other networks about possibility to move action there and other things I don't want to speak about yet.
I play low stakes myself. I'm not too sorry for the SN grinders who lost their rakeback. Why should I get 4% rakeback, while they get 45%?
Because they work harder than you?
sorry man, but are u serious about :"Why should I get 4% rakeback, while they get 45%?"???
This is great news imo, its great someone is standing up to these quite ridiculous changes. I'm not a high stakes reg (midstakes), but the changes are ridiculous with nothing in perspective other than maxEV for Stars. We really should do something about it, even if that means going on a week strike or whatever and just not playing on Stars. The changes are not great for anyone, even for fishes these are not great changes. If I was a fish I wouldn't want all the $100 and $60 regs to come to 15s/7s and 30s and start grinding midstakes. Thumbs up guys.