Looking for some high-stakes money recreation motion at GGPoker? It will assist to know somebody, in keeping with current experiences.
The on-line poker web site, which not too long ago accomplished a purchase order of the WSOP, has determined that each one video games above $10-$20 will now be run by personal hosts and are invitation-only affairs. Players should now first contact a bunch to be authorized and seated in one of many video games.
Why would a web-based web site need to restrict who performs of their largest video games? It’s the identical motive why high-stakes reside video games have turn out to be extra privatized lately. Simply put, the sharks eat the fish, and when there too many sharks, the fish get eaten too shortly. And the feeding frenzy will get amplified once you exchange the fish with a whale.
When professionals are lining as much as play towards sure rich, high-stakes amateurs, it may well typically be dangerous for the sport. And if the sport is dangerous, it doesn’t run. And if the sport isn’t operating, the operator isn’t pleased.
Players Criticize The Move
A GGPoker consultant has acknowledged that the change got here on the request of high-stakes gamers, nonetheless the transfer was not obtained properly by others. Posters on the TwoPlusTwo forums mentioned that GG is performing as a monopoly by limiting the alternatives for anybody to play at increased stakes.
“Now they are making a shift to not even allow the regs a chance in the first place, funneling any pros who still want to or are forced to play on their site into lower stakes that are raked even more and being able to have full control over recreational players on their site and where their money goes,” one TwoPlusTwo member famous.
“Effectively it kills the dream people have of watching high-stakes regs battling it out for tons of money hoping to end up in their shoes one day – the same route live poker has taken, making all high stakes public games practically obsolete, letting a small amount of people who control the game collect all the money off recreationals they recruit into their closed doors environments.”
Some 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. Other video games will pressure tighter gamers (nits) to pay a penalty for failing to win a pot.
Other TwoPlusTwo members famous that the transfer shields inferior gamers from having to presumably play towards higher gamers. Another participant echoed the phrases of others by stating that gamers should now know somebody or be a pleasant “fit” to get in a recreation.
“Quite sad, online poker used to be the real meritocracy,” the participant famous on Twitter. “If you thought you were the best, you could sit in the lobby vs. the best at the highest stakes. Now it will be live poker style politics.”
