stupid?

[stormswa]

friend of mine sent me this upset about it, what is your take?

[Kurn]

Why is your friend upset at 'Stars having a German language poker forum?

[stormswa]

did you read it all?

its integrated into pokerstars and offer a lot more then just a forum.

[Kurn]

So? Sounds cool to me, I'll probably sign up.

[stormswa]

dont know something about making bad players better for free kinda sounds bad to me.

[MAYHEM45]

Bad players look at that and say pfffft, Im already the best in the world, why the fuck do I need lessons?

[stormswa]

I kinda agree with stars here



Hello Brian,

Thank you for your feedback.

At this time there is so much free information available on the
internet
like forums, video tutorials, articles, and e-books everywhere. It is
accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. So it's not like poor
players
don't have access to a lot of information anyway.

This web site, although will be helpful, won't change the way the
majority
of people play. There will still be thousands of new players without
much
knowledge of the game. Also, a lot of players are ignorant and believe
they are the best at this game. Those players will never learn
anything,
and will always be easy money to the players that are willing to take
the
time to learn.

You will notice that most online poker sites have similar form of
articles
teaching people to play. Does that make those sites that have that
information a lot tougher than others? From my experience, I don't
think
so.

So I don't think this web site, will change the world of poker. Though
it
will help a few players, that would have found information elsewhere,
but
choose to find it here because they like PokerStars, and we offer just
as
good material as anywhere else.

If you need assistance with anything else, please do not hesitate to
contact us as we will gladly assist you 24/7.

Regards,

Mathew
PokerStars Support Team

[Wes]

Didn't PartyPoker have a poker school to teach people how to play better? That seemed to make the fishes dry up didn't it?

[Invigilator]

People teaching others how to player poker? OUTRAGEOUS! After I get back from my weekly poker-book-burning in the library parking lot I am going to write my congressman!

p.s. Mayhem and Pokerstars support have it dead on. Making information available to people doesn't mean shit. If it did, the advent of the internet would have perfected society by now.

[stormswa]

like stars said in email, there is soo information out there anyway. If they dont get it from stars they have access to it anyway.

[Invigilator]

They probably just went broke and signed up with Cake.

[Stormwa_JR]

Yea but most fish dont know about 2+2, card runners, etc.

Wait until stars shoves it down there throat.

[Invigilator]

I think I missed that part in the article.

[Talking Poker]

I think it's funny that people worry about things like this. The big picture is that this will attract more NEW (bad) players to Poker Stars in the long run than it will turn existing bad players into good players. But even if the latter was the case, so what? Is your game so vulnerable that if 5% of the player base (a massive overestimate) out there improves becaose of this, you're going to turn into a losing player???

This reminds me of the people that won't post on poker forums (hmmmmmmm) because they don't want to "educate the fish" with their apparent mastered strategies of the game. LOL. Yeah, cause YOUR posts are going to make a difference and negatively impact your bottom line when your opponents use them against you. Uh huh. Sure they are.

[Invigilator]

testify Brother! If I am trying to get better, and my opponents are getting better, doesn't that help me in the long run? If not I could hone my skills a lot cheaper with play money or 1 cent / 2 cent games.

Bring on the fish of tomorrow!

[stormswa]

just for the record the title of this thread is "stupid?" because I didnt know if it was or not and wanted opinions. I have gotten a pretty lopsidded opinion base here in the way of its really not a big deal and I agree with this after seeing everyones point of view and then up Stormwa's

stormwa I dont think it will be much different then the FTP forum.

[bdawg31]

i remember watching a documentary about blackjack - when all the books came out with the 'correct' way to play blackjack. The mathematical systems for ideal play. The casinos were worried that this would make it tough for them to turn a profit and were actually worried that they would have to get rid of black jack.

Turned out that after all those books came out - they made MORE money at the black jack tables than before.