Almost 20 Years with PokerStars... Gone After One Bad Decision

hardongear · Jun 5, 2026

fundiver199 said:
He play mostly multi-table SnGs. His most played game is the now discontinued $15 18-man, where he was able to win almost $1 pr. game over 55.076 games. After this 3 hyperturbo SnG satellite formats and after this the also discontinued $3.5 R+A 180-man. I know him, because I regularly play with him in the current 32-man On Demand games. Before these I mostly saw him in the 18-mans. He also play some MTTs.

I linked to his Sharkscope, because I get tired of listening to people claiming, that PokerStars is completely dead, there is no reason at all to play there, and soon the site will even be bankrupt. Sure volume is not, what it was 15 or even 5 years ago. But games are still running, and serious players are still making money. If people prefer to play somewhere else, thats their choise, but it does not mean, PokerStars is a terrible site.

Oh 100% it's not a terrible site....still one of the very few sites I'd still personally trust and they don't do near as scummy stuff as other sites. Most those that are pissed and saying it's a terrible site are just pissed they got rid of the freerolls and aren't players that ever deposited or likely paid a dime of rake.

With all that said I do wish someone else would buy Pokerstars I'm willing to gamble they could run it better then the company that currently does cause while it's still obviously one of the best sites to play on the owner hasn't done much good to help it. I was pretty excited about the FanDuel news at first....then we found out it just Ontario

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Cheers!!!

fundiver199 · Jun 5, 2026

hardongear said:
Most those that are pissed and saying it's a terrible site are just pissed they got rid of the freerolls and aren't players that ever deposited or likely paid a dime of rake.

Yes I think, thats pretty much it. According to these same people 888 Poker is a fantastic site with a bright future, even though they only have a fraction of the activity, that PokerStars still have. But PokerStars will go bankrupt, because they cancelled some freerolls, that people felt entitled to.

hardongear said:
With all that said I do wish someone else would buy Pokerstars I'm willing to gamble they could run it better then the company that currently does cause while it's still obviously one of the best sites to play on the owner hasn't done much good to help it.

I kind of agree with that. Raising the rake for single table SnGs a few years back only hastened the decline of these games, and a lot of them are now completely gone, including all the remaining regular speed games. It also sticks out like a sore thumb, that they raised the rake for all MTTs below $20 a decade ago, especially now that they are no longer the industry leader. Being more expensive than your competitors is difficult to justify, when you constantly lose market share and have to reduce the guarantied price pool of most of your tournaments.

Other decisions have been more reasonable though. For instance I like the new 32-man On Demand games, so at least SnG grinders now have those. And I also like the random seating for cash games, which I think, is a far better solution, than many other sites have chosen in their attempt to combat excessive table selection. And they regularly update their tournament schedule and include new formats like Mystery Bounty etc. So its not all bad, but it could be better as well.

Poker Orifice · Jun 5, 2026

fundiver199 said:
48 years is quite long to wait for a withdrawal though… 😂😂😂

Have you seen him play?

hardongear · Jun 5, 2026

Poker Orifice said:
Have you seen him play?

This is funny cause one thing I'll never be accused of is being a slow player. If anything I play at an avg speed and try to take the same amount of time with every decision. Unless it's a real tough, uncommon situation to be in.

On a serious note good to see you around man as it means you must be feeling a bit better. Hope things are good.

Cheers!!!

steve01991 · Jun 5, 2026

never had to ask to quit a site, but cant you just make another account, or was that part of the deal?

Sunz of Beaches · Jun 5, 2026

steve01991 said:
never had to ask to quit a site, but cant you just make another account, or was that part of the deal?

Do you read threads before answering?

Poker Orifice · Jun 5, 2026

hardongear said:
This is funny cause one thing I'll never be accused of is being a slow player. If anything I play at an avg speed and try to take the same amount of time with every decision. Unless it's a real tough, uncommon situation to be in.

On a serious note good to see you around man as it means you must be feeling a bit better. Hope things are good.

Cheers!!!

On the serious note... thanks man. I appreciate the thought.

But back to that post... I wasn't referring to any speed of play... it was speed of withdrawal.
fundiver says "48 years is quite long to wait for a withdrawal..."

I say "Have you seen him play?" Meaning have you seen how bad he plays? The time waiting for a withdrawal could be close to forever

I was just bein' my usual d1ck self. I've never seen you play but it just seemed like a good spot to throw in that comment.

GLAVI65 · Jun 5, 2026

Omar.Imrane said:
Hola a todos,

Quería compartir una situación personal que, sinceramente, me ha estado frustrando durante mucho tiempo, y quizás alguien aquí haya pasado por algo similar.

Hace aproximadamente un año, durante una muy mala racha en las mesas de póker y tras mucha frustración y mala suerte, tomé una decisión impulsiva y solicité personalmente el cierre definitivo de mi cuenta de PokerStars.

En aquel momento pensé que era lo correcto, pero poco después me arrepentí profundamente.

Desde entonces, me he puesto en contacto con el servicio de atención al cliente de PokerStars en numerosas ocasiones, explicando amablemente la situación y preguntando si existe alguna forma de reabrir la cuenta. Lamentablemente, siempre se niegan —de forma respetuosa y profesional— porque su política es muy estricta en lo que respecta a las solicitudes de cierre definitivo de cuenta.

Entiendo perfectamente que las reglas son las reglas, pero sinceramente, me ha resultado muy difícil aceptar que una decisión emocional pueda poner fin de forma permanente a años de historia en una plataforma que realmente amaba.

Además, PokerStars fue la primera plataforma de póker que instalé en mi ordenador hace casi 20 años, así que para mí nunca fue solo un juego o un sitio de póker más: conlleva años de recuerdos y emociones.

Así que quería preguntar:

¿Alguien aquí ha experimentado algo similar con PokerStars o con otro sitio importante de póker?
¿Pudiste recuperar tu cuenta después de una solicitud de cierre definitivo?
¿Existe algún consejo, método de contacto o enfoque que pueda ser de ayuda?

Agradecería enormemente cualquier experiencia o consejo sincero.

Gracias a todos.

How regrettable...
I was unaware that there can only be one Pokerstars user account per IP and at my home we were two users with the same IP and my user was banned... I consider this a bit unfair, but there are other rooms like GGPoker and others to experience Poker: It doesn't end with PokerStar

wushibala · Jun 6, 2026

The only way around it would be to register under someone else’s name and play on that account, for example, under your wife’s name or another relative’s name.

hardongear · Jun 6, 2026

Poker Orifice said:
On the serious note... thanks man. I appreciate the thought.

But back to that post... I wasn't referring to any speed of play... it was speed of withdrawal.
fundiver says "48 years is quite long to wait for a withdrawal..."

I say "Have you seen him play?" Meaning have you seen how bad he plays? The time waiting for a withdrawal could be close to forever

I was just bein' my usual d1ck self. I've never seen you play but it just seemed like a good spot to throw in that comment.

Honestly I sometimes wonder and think about you and where you are if you haven't posted in a few days or it goes a week. Use to you and a few others being like furniture around and being here daily I guess. So it's rather easy to notice when you'll aren't after a number days and you haven't posted.

110% was a +EV spot to give me a razzing and poke the old bear a bit lmao. Which is another tell you're doing a bit better currently which I like very much as I know myself from getting older not everyday is a exactly a good day. Least the weather been nice here the last couple days like in 20's which so far this spring and early summer it's mostly like a nice crisp, chilly and breezy fall days most of May. Good to see it warming up usually by now it's quite a bit warmer. Hopefully you're getting some warm nice days there.

Cheers!!!

Omar.Imrane · Monday at 5:51 AM

steve01991 said:
never had to ask to quit a site, but cant you just make another account, or was that part of the deal?

Sometimes we make impulsive decisions without thinking them through, and after some time we realize just how big a mistake they were. It happens more often than we'd like to admit.

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