Charles Hawk: Write me please your thoughts and feelings about PS RB changes in 2016? How it will affect the industry?​ Is it true that after banning Spinwiz $100 spins became unbeatable pre-rakeback to most regulars?​

Knut "smatt" Turk: First off on the note of spinwiz, I personally don't think the ban is a major change tbh. Together with the rb % changes announced for next year combined it just means that some % of the regs will have to adjust the amount of tables they play and - or move down in stakes which in turn will reduce the effective amount of regs in the player pool. I think there is still a lot of recreationals flowing in right now, and once the 1kk promo at the lower buyins ends there might be even more looking to play 100s. So overall I'd say these changes will in a sense force regs to get better next year if they want to stay profitable in that stake but as it is right now the games are still beatable pre rb.

Knut "smatt" Turk: Obviously the impact of these decicions by Amaya is much bigger on current SNE grinders / SNEs and the format hit most by it is 6max hypers. So it's going to be interesting to see how many of the 6m regs might be looking to transition next year. I doubt we'll see a major influence on e.g 100s though, so I'm not particularly worried about games not being beatable next year. Of course the whole change itself was handled sort of poorly by Amaya and the cutdown in rb % seems too harsh. Personally I don't see recreationals gaining anything from this - so it really just seems like they want to get rid of rb grinders.

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I asked same question Daniel "Pl@yerABC" Sklár on November 4 [Write me please your thoughts and feelings about PS RB changes in 2016? How it will affect the industry?​]

Daniel "Pl@yerABC" Sklár: I got the information from twoplustwo forums. Given the situation my plan is very simple - I will continue to play and (especially in January) I will pay close attention to my expected value after the changes take place.  At the end of the month I will look at my results and compare the EV of different options (poker and also non-poker related ones) and I will decide what to do next.

Daniel "Pl@yerABC" Sklár: I don't want to make predictions or speculate how these changes will alter the toughness of the games. I have found out over the years that the world in just to complicated and making predictions is difficult bussines to be in. So I will look closely how the situation develops and saying it in poker terms - I will reevaluate and adjust my gameplan when the situation calls for it.

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Few days ago Daniel wrote me that he is joining 2+2 strike:

Daniel "Pl@yerABC" Sklár: I was asked to join the 2+2 strike between 1st and 3rd of december. Lot of fellow regulars are participating so I am obviously on board! Many respected players are on the list so I hope it will make the difference.