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Player segregation - Regulars and Fish


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Seems a really scary idea gaining traction at the moment. The idea seems to be that fish are protected from sharks by pooling them at different tables. I'm sure it improves the experience for the fish (and decreases the cost) - but by making profitable play difficult/impossible, doesn't it remove the dream for the fish on what they can achieve? Surely hearing of players crushing tables and making a living from poker is what a lot of fish aspire to? That dream of getting rich by playing poker - if that's no longer possible, where's the fantasy? I suppose its away from the cash tables and STTs, and only in the MTT environment? I think it all started at iPoker? When they spilt the player pool in two - putting the sportsbook players separate from the poker dedicated skins players (is that right? I haven't really seen much about it - that was a while ago - anyone know how it worked out). A couple of days ago I saw that Party Poker had, without saying anything to players, started hiding tables from profitable players where there were a lot of fish on them. They're still supposedly testing it and working out exactly how they will implement it. (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28/internet-poker/party-poker-segregating-its-player-pool-1305546/) From Monday, Revolution network will be splitting out their player pools in a similar way (not many details out yet from what I can see) (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28/internet-poker/intertops-poker-official-support-promotions-thread-1078789/index206.html#post37398268) I'm all right [jack], as no signs of anything like this where I play (Pokerstars) - but I really dont like what they're doing.....

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