The Challenger

RNG is useless here, by default, players who call or go all in first always win 80% of the time, plus you just need to cover the highest stack on the table to automatically win with the last cards when opening a short stack like the game wants you to do fast. I thought Badbeat on GG was the worst until I found this site. During peak hours the server was lagging and I couldn't access it, after 5 minutes in it was 7k/7k what a shit site with idiots playing like they don't know what is high and what is low.

06:00 $1,000 Morning Warm-up 08:00 $1,000 Morning Warm-up 10:00 $1,000 Mid-morning 12:00 $1,000 Midday 14:00 $1,000 Afternoon 18:00 $1,000 Late Afternoon 20:00 $2,000 Evening 22:00 $2,000 Prime Late Evening 00:00 $2,000 Late Night 01:00 $20,000 Main Night Event (flagship) 02:00 $8,888 8k8 Special 04:00 $5,000 Pre-reset Showcase Total: $45,888 GTD 12 Event on Day 100BB Stack: 10K Blind 5' Payout 10% No Lucky Fish No Time Bank Delay Sitting Out Why can't it be like this can't be a real holiday season instead of just bringing gifts and festive atmosphere, a memorable feeling of joy that will last forever, but in reality it is a slow, frustrating, time consuming, meaningless gamble with a bitter taste. This team really has math and creativity problems.

Stake Poker has become a playground for clueless lucky fish who completely ruin the purpose of the game. The system launches a 14-Day Xmas Freeroll Event, and what happens? Endless multi-account bots and reckless gamblers flood the tournaments, shoving and calling all-in nonstop without any logic. It’s 2025, yet almost every table still has someone limping UTG, followed by a chain of limpers, and each hand drags on for 2–3 minutes over a worthless pot. The structure is just as absurd: 5–6K players squeezed into a hyper tournament with 3-minute levels, ITM barely 200 spots—less than 5%—while the algorithm seems to reward random all-in calls with trash hands as if it’s handing out free money. At this point, is this even a Poker tournament anymore, or just a chaotic race mixed with inexperienced players and automated fish bots? Stake poker is a haven for idiots who have no respect for the pure game of poker. Why, in tournaments with 4–6K players, don’t they set the payout at 10% ITM and simply run fewer events with a 5-minute blind structure? Who designed this Xmas series with only 200 payouts for 5,000 players and 3-minute blinds? Is this supposed to be All-in or Fold, or a playground for fish who call limp every hand? Even trash all-ins win more often than premium hands — is the RNG broken or what? I’ve never seen any event series this ridiculous. Does the person who created it have a problem with basic mathematics? Why, in tournaments with 4–6K players, don’t they set the payout at 10% ITM and simply run fewer events with a 5-minute blind structure? Who designed this Xmas series with only 200 payouts for 5,000 players and 3-minute blinds? Is this supposed to be All-in or Fold, or a playground for fish who call limp every hand? Even trash all-ins win more often than premium hands — is the RNG broken or what? I’ve never seen any event series this ridiculous. Does the person who created it have a problem with basic mathematics? Why, in tournaments with 4–6K players, don’t they set the payout at 10% ITM and simply run fewer events with a 5-minute blind structure? Who designed this Xmas series with only 200 payouts for 5,000 players and 3-minute blinds? Is this supposed to be All-in or Fold, or a playground for fish who call limp every hand? Even trash all-ins win more often than premium hands — is the RNG broken or what? I’ve never seen any event series this ridiculous. Does the person who created it have a problem with basic mathematics?