As Someone who has played stake poker for the last 8-12 months The new update is the worst poker change I have seen any website make. What made stake poker great was you could play more than 6 tables at different stakes which is now taken away slowing the action and causing regulars to leave. When you are playing 6 tables, you can no longer replay a played hand because you already have 6 tables open and the platform wont let you. Grouping the tables has now made it insanely hard to find a table with more than 2 players on it causing you to continuously buy in and leave tables until the program puts you on a full table which can take 20-30 minutes every time a table breaks. I understand you want to protect fish and stop bum hunting, but this format is making the website so clunky you are doing the opposite and causing the player pool to leave the website.. Instead just make player names and stack sizes hidden before joining the table.. THIRD, when you join the table you start with 40BB and have to manually top up, I have no words for this its just sloppy and looks like a brokie poker website that just started out. the bad beat jackpot is whatever, a rake back leader board would have been a better way to reward the playerbase.
To end, what made stake worth playing despite the outrageous 7% rake to fund those F1 wheels was the player selection, the ability to play as many tables as you wanted, the good UI, the rake back. With the new changes, all of the regulars have left for Coin poker or Clubspoker which is sad to see. I literally see same usernames on Clubspoker now that use to play on stake. Please revert the changes to save the website till then I will be playing on other platforms like many before me as I watch the pool dry up from a far.
Id like to add to while im at it. CHANGE THE CHEATER DETECTION. or fire the entire poker team. Hire me for christ sake ill do it on the side while in medical school to stop this shit. I am prohibited to play with random players I played months ago on a random night for legitimately no reason. When you are prohibited to play with these players you aren't given any evidence or able to contact the poker team. I have come to the conclusion that the poker team or whoever is reviewing the auto collusion detector has never played online poker or even understands the game. If a fish punts you two buy ins heads up. THIS IS NOT COLLUSION. at least not probably. check IP adresses and player history, do not just ban both players and prohibit them when they rejoin. what a weird amateur system. they players should be allowed to refute and provide evidence to claims made against them. If two regs are prohibited to play against eachother, they are essentally barred from playing 50% of games on a ruling made by randoms who clearly dont know what they are doing (as seen in the recent update)
everything aside, Stake was actually a diamond in the rough of a poker site while it lasted. So sad to see what it has become
