Dalmore

Okay, I'm talking about how rigged this site feels. Whenever you're up against a bigger stack, they seem to hit no matter what, even when they're calling with complete trash hands. By the way, how much have you won on this site, and how much have you won from poker over the last five years?

Haha, I think even if you made it to the next stage, you’d probably only end up winning a little spare change because everything already feels completely rigged anyway.

Ok Done

I spent 3–4 hours grinding with everything I had, only to get set up in brutal spots — AK losing to AT, dropping to 30K, then AJ running straight into AK and busting again. What a disgusting game. Four Main Event tickets played and not a single ITM. All that time, energy, and sleepless effort wasted for nothing but chaos and frustration with zero reward. Goodbye to this platform. There are no words left to describe how trash and disastrous this experience has been.

The problem is that this system basically forces everyone into an all-in-or-fold style during the last 15 minutes before late registration closes, no matter how trash the hands are, because this is only a qualifier stage. A single player carrying a $100 bounty can even be worth more than finishing first after grinding 5–6 exhausting hours against thousands of players. The moment someone like that appears, everyone will dive in trying to steal the bounty. Just try shoving all-in and see if the whole table jumps in or not. The next issue is that whenever I get covered in chips, it feels almost predetermined that I’ll lose in the most absurd ways possible regardless of the hand strength. Trash hands constantly get “drawn into” two pairs, straights, flushes, small pairs crack big pairs, weak AX hits one of its 3 outs against stronger AX — and after experiencing this hundreds of times, I’ve honestly gone numb. I don’t even have the energy left to rage or complain anymore. This site, in general, feels terrible. It constantly manufactures ridiculous runouts just to force losses in the dumbest ways imaginable. There’s no real sense of randomness or skill here anymore — only setups and gambling variance. High-level players would never seriously stay in environments like this anyway; they’re busy playing million-dollar Main Events elsewhere. The problem is that this system basically forces everyone into an all-in-or-fold style during the last 15 minutes before late registration closes, no matter how trash the hands are, because this is only a qualifier stage. A single player carrying a $100 bounty can even be worth more than finishing first after grinding 5–6 exhausting hours against thousands of players. The moment someone like that appears, everyone will dive in trying to steal the bounty. Just try shoving all-in and see if the whole table jumps in or not. The next issue is that whenever I get covered in chips, it feels almost predetermined that I’ll lose in the most absurd ways possible regardless of the hand strength. Trash hands constantly get “drawn into” two pairs, straights, flushes, small pairs crack big pairs, weak AX hits one of its 3 outs against stronger AX — and after experiencing this hundreds of times, I’ve honestly gone numb. I don’t even have the energy left to rage or complain anymore. This site, in general, feels terrible. It constantly manufactures ridiculous runouts just to force losses in the dumbest ways imaginable. There’s no real sense of randomness or skill here anymore — only setups and gambling variance. High-level players would never seriously stay in environments like this anyway; they’re busy playing million-dollar Main Events elsewhere. The problem is that this system basically forces everyone into an all-in-or-fold style during the last 15 minutes before late registration closes, no matter how trash the hands are, because this is only a qualifier stage. A single player carrying a $100 bounty can even be worth more than finishing first after grinding 5–6 exhausting hours against thousands of players. The moment someone like that appears, everyone will dive in trying to steal the bounty. Just try shoving all-in and see if the whole table jumps in or not. The next issue is that whenever I get covered in chips, it feels almost predetermined that I’ll lose in the most absurd ways possible regardless of the hand strength. Trash hands constantly get “drawn into” two pairs, straights, flushes, small pairs crack big pairs, weak AX hits one of its 3 outs against stronger AX — and after experiencing this hundreds of times, I’ve honestly gone numb. I don’t even have the energy left to rage or complain anymore. This site, in general, feels terrible. It constantly manufactures ridiculous runouts just to force losses in the dumbest ways imaginable. There’s no real sense of randomness or skill here anymore — only setups and gambling variance. High-level players would never seriously stay in environments like this anyway; they’re busy playing million-dollar Main Events elsewhere. Maybe you were simply lucky in that hand because the system wanted you to stay alive for a few more minutes before getting taken out by another garbage setup afterward. I’ve lost with KK and AA all-in preflop against trash hands so many times while being covered in chips that I honestly can’t even remember the number anymore, so spots like that don’t feel special to me at all. It becomes a programming issue and a mathematical randomness issue. I don’t think this place resembles real poker anymore. It operates more like a roulette wheel built on pure luck, gambling, and bigger-vs-smaller outcomes — nothing more. If there’s truly something wrong with the system, it’s that after grinding day and night without sleep just trying to fight for a few tickets and seats, I’m still only walking away with scraps of money.

Haha, after I made that post and returned to the table, he had already disappeared. Survival time was probably under one blind — less than 5 minutes. You lost the $10 bet, so please transfer it to my ID. However, due to the delayed response from having to battle through consecutive tournaments, you’ve been penalized half the wager.

Mini game: predict how much longer this bounty target will survive. A. 10 minutes — Over/Under x1.9 B. Over 15 minutes x2.1 Under 15 minutes x1.7 C. Over 4 blinds x3.2 Under 4 blinds x1.5 Place your bets now. I’ve already been at the same table with this target twice. One time, he got lucky and hit a four-card flush while sitting on only 1.3k chips. The other time, he just sat there folding while I was holding JJ, QQ, and AA without getting a single spot to play. His stone-statue style is the complete opposite of that other wild target who jammed J9o all-in multiway against the whole table.

“Trận đấu hay đấy.” Thật sự chẳng còn từ ngữ nào để diễn tả tâm trạng lúc này nữa. Chỉ là một đêm nữa của những màn trình diễn hề trớ trêu trong sở thú mà thôi. “Cách thức giao dịch thực sự tinh tế — gần như chính xác đến mức nghệ thuật.” Các mục tiêu săn tiền thưởng ở đây quá yếu — cuối cùng chúng đều bị hệ thống rác tiêu diệt và hạ gục. Nền tảng này có cần ai đó để cân bằng mọi thứ không? Hãy đưa tên tôi vào danh sách mục tiêu truy nã đi. Chắc chắn sẽ tạo ra nhiều kịch tính, hồi hộp và thử thách thực sự hơn cho tất cả các thợ săn. LOL

Is anyone from the poker operations team here? I honestly don’t think this tournament structure is good or even feels like a real competitive event. The first 15 minutes are basically nothing but all-in flip fiestas and multi-way gambles. After that, the players who survive are sitting on absurd stack sizes — x5, x6, x10, even x20 starting stacks — because the blind increases are far too soft at levels like 70/140 → 175/350 → 450/900. It feels unnecessarily inflated and fails to create meaningful pots during key situations. Right now the fields are massive, with 3k, 4k, 5k, even 6k entries, and 90% of the gameplay during the first 30 minutes is just push/fold chaos. The first four low-blind levels are basically meaningless and might as well be removed entirely. The tournament should just start at 50/100 from Level 1. The first hour wastes far too much time on tiny insignificant pots, endless waiting, players stalling, slow decisions, and poor calculations. Meanwhile, once the tournament reaches 25k/50k blinds and above, the structure suddenly becomes way too fast and shallow. From that point onward, everything feels under 10BB and turns into pure luck and setup situations. Blind levels there should last at least 10 minutes instead of only 5 minutes like the early stages. Because realistically, only when players still have more than 20BB around the 50k/100k stage does it truly feel like an actual poker tournament. On top of that, with tournaments having 3k–4k entries while only giving out around 24–40 ITM tickets each time, it honestly feels like you have to exhaust all your strength and burn through an entire year’s worth of luck just to win once. At the very least, the ITM percentage should be around 5% to properly compensate the amount of effort, time, mental energy, and emotional pressure players invest into these tournaments. So Funny!

I’m extremely frustrated because in just a single day, I got hit by one streak of bad luck after another nonstop. OK Next Game Someone needs to compile a full list of every star-marked ID that carries a bounty reward for eliminating them. How many of these bounty targets appear each day, which event time slots are the most crowded, and what the actual probability is of even getting seated at the same table as one of these bounty streamers — it’s probably lower than 1%. Before getting eliminated right before the Final Table in a completely ridiculous and seemingly rigged hand, I had already lost a separate $100 bounty bonus earlier in another event because of another absurd miracle runout. And in a different event, if I had won that decisive all-in pot, I would’ve climbed to a 4M stack with a real shot at taking first place. The short stack with the star icon — the so-called “special player” because they’re a streamer for the platform — somehow always ends up making the strongest hand at the perfect moment. Meanwhile, regular players get crushed constantly. It doesn’t even need to be a multi-way all-in; even a simple heads-up all-in against someone covering you by 5x feels like an automatic 80% chance to lose no matter what cards you hold. If this season ends — or even if I keep enduring until the Xmas season this year — and still achieve nothing meaningful, then maybe I should remove myself from all of this. Maybe this place was never truly meant to welcome me.

Crypto poker is becoming a clear trend, and many new poker rooms are now emerging with a sole focus on cryptocurrency. I believe that to truly compete for traffic in this poker segment, the Stake Poker team needs a bold structural change: replace the entire daily tournament schedule by centering it around a Weekly Main Event every week and a Super Monthly Main Event every month. The ecosystem should start with a structured freeroll series that rewards cash prizes and satellite tickets into these Main Events, then continue on a weekly and monthly cycle throughout all of 2026. This is how you consistently generate events with thousands of entries, turning almost every month into a festival season—from spring to summer to autumn—instead of relying solely on the Christmas period. If executed properly, the platform will always feel alive, driven by massive traffic from Big Games, with professional players constantly present, rather than the current situation where many tournaments attract only a few hundred players and feel stagnant. Just One Time Additionally, I found the recent 14 Days of Xmas event to be very poorly executed. The schedule was overloaded, and there were serious server crashes and congestion. Instead of compressing everything into 14 days, turning it into a 31 Days of Xmas event would have felt far more special, simply by cutting the number of daily events in half. This would reduce pressure on the servers while still maintaining consistent engagement throughout the entire month. Instead of placing two 100K GTD tournaments on the first two Saturdays of the month, why not schedule those two 100K events on the nights of December 24th and December 31st? That way, everyone could truly feel the festive atmosphere, have something meaningful to look forward to, and enjoy the celebration together. As it stands now, when the actual holidays arrive, the schedule feels completely empty and lifeless.