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PokerStars to host secret invite-only high stakes promos to keep losing players? |
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Garfed   Malta. Sep 11 2017 19:40. Posts 4818 | | |
This is one of the most interesting news since a long time. A 2+2 forum poster posted some screenshots claiming that he won a secretly-hosted high stakes invite-only 9 player sit&go tournamnet at PokerStars. And that there was $55,000 in prizes, with every player getting paid no matter what's his finish position.
User hiding under "poiulkjh" was claiming he managed to win the invite-only tournament for $25,000, where the funds were manually credited to players account by PokerStars employees to keep it from trackers like Sharkscope. A lot of people claimed for the screenshot to be fake and photoshoped, but he showed a part of the invite as well.
Prizes were: 1st: $25000, 2nd: $10300, 3rd: $5200, 4th-6th: $2100, 7th-9th: $1050.
So, how to get invited to that club? "poiulkjh"said that he lost around $40,000 in last year alone. There are supposedly around 440 players in the club at the moment.
However, one of our Polish players shared the entire e-mail with us, so we can confirm - that the entire thing is true,at least to some degree:
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Stroggoz   New Zealand. Sep 11 2017 20:51. Posts 5290 | | |
is gus hanson in this club |
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One of 3 non decent human beings on a site of 5 people with between 2-3 decent human beings | |
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cariadon   Estonia. Sep 11 2017 20:54. Posts 4019 | | |
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shootair   United States. Sep 11 2017 21:15. Posts 430 | | |
Gus hanson got invited twice
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shootair   United States. Sep 11 2017 21:16. Posts 430 | | |
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Baalim   Mexico. Sep 11 2017 21:24. Posts 34246 | | |
and Gosse Hansel is still a loser in that club |
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Ex-PokerStars Team Pro Online | |
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whamm!   Albania. Sep 12 2017 00:41. Posts 11625 | | |
It's called Gus's Home Game guys |
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Naib   Hungary. Sep 12 2017 19:01. Posts 968 | | |
There was also a promotion this weekend available to only a select few people in spins - no advertisements whatsoever -. If you managed to win 3 spins in a row, you got your an extra buyin credited to your account (any stake). Theoretically you could make quite a hefty amount of rakeback, but again, it was only available to a select few players - players they deemed fishes / losing players most likely by some algorhytm.
I find this whole debacle extremely shady, but it comes as no surprise: they have a lot of extra revenue now with the huge RB cuts, and sure they could allocate a few bucks to this end (i really find this whole differentiation between customers ugly tbh).
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Trav94   Canada. Sep 13 2017 09:30. Posts 1785 | | |
| On September 12 2017 18:01 Naib wrote:
There was also a promotion this weekend available to only a select few people in spins - no advertisements whatsoever -. If you managed to win 3 spins in a row, you got your an extra buyin credited to your account (any stake). Theoretically you could make quite a hefty amount of rakeback, but again, it was only available to a select few players - players they deemed fishes / losing players most likely by some algorhytm.
I find this whole debacle extremely shady, but it comes as no surprise: they have a lot of extra revenue now with the huge RB cuts, and sure they could allocate a few bucks to this end (i really find this whole differentiation between customers ugly tbh).
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Sure they have some extra money due to huge rakeback cuts. But if anything, this all screams huge desperation. I wouldn't be surprised to see stars tank very hard, at least in term of their high point, in the next couple of years |
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