Last week I made a post about 2+2 strike against changes in Amaya (PokerStars) VIP program
Here is some notes about it:
Joachim (Choqi): Combined for all formats, about 3000 players have publicly signed up for the strike. This is already a huge number, but in reality even more guys participated. Especially in the HU SNG community, the amount of participating players was enormously high. Except very few expectations, every regular HU SNG player of the 60$ limit and higher participated in the strike. It was great to see that there is so much solidarity in the HU SNG community!
Joachim (Choqi): Some people had mixed feelings about the outcome of the strike, because a couple low stakes regulars tried to abuse the situation and caught some opensitting recreationals. But overall, the action of HU SNGs was much less compared to normal days. There were much less matches, which included recreational players, and nearly no matches between two regular players. Especially the latter is important. Usually there are highstakes battles between regulars during the whole day. In HU SNGs, this creates by far the most profit for Pokerstars.
Here is a short impression how the lobbies looked during the strike:
Joachim (Choqi): An important point of the strike was to show solidarity between the different formats of poker. The strike has shown that it is possible to organize very big groups of players, which was one goal of the strike. For future strikes, it will be important to get more efficient. In HU SNGs, a strike just for battles between regulars should be the best way. If Pokerstars doesn't react to this first strike, such a regbattle strike could be a good next step.
Joachim (Choqi): Another goal of the strike was to cause awareness about the questionable policy of Amaya. Therefore I am very happy to see that there is so much public talk about the strike. Here are some links about the topic:
News articles:
http://www.onlinepokerreport.com/18878/pokerstars-strike-update/
https://www.pokertube.com/poker-news/poker-gossip-opinion/436-pokerstars...
http://www.pokernews.com/news/2015/11/online-poker-players-organizing-bo...
Promotions of other pokersites, as a result of the strike:
http://www.pokernewsreport.com/888-cuts-rake-ups-guarantees-during-boyco...
Platforms for the organization of further strikes:
http://www.theykillpoker.com/
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28/internet-poker/joint-strike-1st-3rd...