Talk:PokerStars

message: In the beginning of the video, LeBron James is playing pokerstars. The song is really popular right now. Probably should be included because it's a big advertising ploy by Pokerstars  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.59.27.71 (talk) 22:37, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "Forever" music video

message: Do any of you know the history of Pokerstars. I recently learned that Howard Lederer helped start full tilt poker. I would like to know who helped start pokerstars and when that took place. Sp0 (talk) 10:00, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  history 

message: Why is this page 1/10th the length of the party poker page?
:It isn't. 2005 19:05, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes - check out http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/room/features/images/. Rray 02:15, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  length 

message: I slightly edited the first line because I felt that "one of the largest" is biased and there are multiple poker sites that are constantly increasing in terms of size and membership, namely FullTiltPoker and PKR. Yoryx 08:51, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I reverted this edit. Since the article can be edited at any time, this information can be changed when an online poker room actually surpasses PokerStars in size. Rray 13:52, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

text: The fact other sites are large or growing doesn't have anything to do with Pokerstars being plainly, objectively the largest. 2005 21:42, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

text: April 1 is wikilinked because it is a browser preference to show a date as either "1 April" or "April 1".  If you change your preferences you'll see the date will magically change when wikilinked.  The year dates were useless and I removed them or made the links to the WSOP's they related to. 2005 (talk) 11:07, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: EDITS

message: This poker site has some of the worst bad beats ever seen. it is laughable that their "random shuffle" is comparable to a real world shuffle. In reality, there software is programmed to allow the inferior players to keep their money longer, consequently increasing the long term profit of poker stars.
Should this be confirmed from a verifiable source?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.127.148.170 (talk) 05:56, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Unreferenced claim

message: Is it legal to do the real money option in the US and to be able to cash out? I thought it was illegal, or did they pass a law in the US? Thanks.-- 06:05, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: While people can offer opinions, this isn't the Supreme Court so there is no definitive answer to that. 2005 (talk) 07:22, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  As Homer Simpson once said, that's for the courts to decide! 66.110.135.112 (talk) 16:49, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Real Money play in the US 

message: I added two headings and moved a paragraph.  I believe the long intro problem is resolved, but I thought someone should review this change before I removed the template.  Dreamingkat (talk) 11:13, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: long intro

message: The article says this "Launched in September 2001, PokerStars was originally a Costa Rican company, Rational Enterprises, majority owned by the Scheinberg family".  Question:  Who owns Pokerstars now? 76.66.174.27 (talk) 18:04, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Same as before only located on Isle of Man now. 2005 (talk) 22:55, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Owners 

message: Pokerstars moved its headquarters to the Isle of Man which is located between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Koguryo18 (talk • contribs) 21:34, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Headquarters 

message: The press conference is without a doubt fake and repeatedly entered into the article as what I can only perceive to be frustration regarding the variance whilst playing the game. I'm treating all such edits as vandalism; any arguments against this approach can be made under this section. JaeDyWolf ~ Baka-San (talk) 16:32, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree, it's frustration over the variance, it's conditioning due to selective random reinforcement (how many people try to remember when AQ doesn't beat AK or 66 doesn't make 4 hearts for the flush to beat KK), you'll see people fuss over the same thing on every online cardroomm, but if you look it does happen live, people don't notice as much due to less hands being played. The press release being inserted is obviously a hoax, so yes I agree with you it should be treated like vandalism. ▪◦▪≡SiREX≡Talk 18:33, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: As a Statistics student, the matter of randomness is a very interesting subject to me! if you've the time to read a TL;DR article, you might be interested in this article that talks about Benford's Law and coin-flipping that illustrates the mind's perception of randomness. JaeDyWolf ~ Baka-San (talk) 18:58, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for the link, you might be interested in this book as well: Fooled by Randomness. ▪◦▪≡SiREX≡Talk 19:12, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding "Press Conference" edits 

message: In the "Team Pokerstars Pro" section at the bottom of the page, there's a player by the name of Juan Carlos Alvarado. clicking on the link directs you to a singer by the same name. The Poker player himself doesn't seem to have an article on Wikipedia. I have absolutely no idea how to edit this! JaeDyWolf ~ Baka-San (talk) 14:25, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind, I got it. JaeDyWolf ~ Baka-San (talk) 19:21, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Juan Carlos Alvarado

message: Does anyone know why there is no mention of the "Bots" scam and the company being shutdown for a time?  Its in the news and, I believe, is very conspicuous in its absence. ref: http://www.cnbc.com/id/42070561/
GoldenSockPuppet (talk) 21:58, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This conversation is probably better suited for the Computer poker players page because the reference doesn't exclusively discuss PokerStars. JaeDyWolf ~ Baka-San (talk) 22:08, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

text: The company was not "being shutdown for a time".  The Computer poker players article discusses how bots do exist to some impossible to know degree. 2005 (talk) 00:45, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Bots

message: The PokerStars page should be updated to reflect on current events, i.e. seizure of pokerstars.com by the FBI under the UIEGA act.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.70.49.30 (talk) 23:11, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It has. JaeDyWolf ~ Baka-San (talk) 05:31, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current events 

message: It may be worth mentioning that although Pokerstars trade in Italy it is only through a different website (pokerstars.it).  It is not possible to access the main Pokerstars website within Italy because it is blocked, like many gambling websites, by the Italian government.  --ЗAНИA talk WB talk] 21:21, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italy 

message: It is worth mentioning that Pokerstars is licensed not only in the Isle of Man and Italy but also in France, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia and Malta, with Spain soon to follow.
Sources:
http://www.pokerstars.com/press/2010-06-29.html
http://www.pokerstars.com/press/2010-10-07.html
http://www.pokerstars.com/press/2011-12-15.html
http://www.pokerstars.com/press/2012-02-08.html
http://www.pokerstars.com/press/2012-02-13.html
Edit:
"The new dot.eu site holds a license under the LGA, the Lotteries and Gaming Commission of Malta. The main dot.com site remains licensed by the Isle of Man Gambling Supervision....The new dot.eu joins the dot.com site, and Danish, Belgian and Estonian sites that all share the same player pool with different licenses. PokerStars also operates segregated player pools on PokerStars.fr, under regulation of France’s ARJEL, and Italian AAMS-licensed PokerStars.it. A segregated Spanish PokerStars.es is expected to go live in the first half of 2012."
-- http://pokerfuse.com/news/poker-room-news/pokerstarseu-goes-live/
Alex O. (talk) 18:49, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other licenses 

message: The edits made by User:DMacks on 30 October, 2014, are a self-evident breach of Wikipedia:Neutral point of view by attempting to present opinion as fact.  PokerStars has not "attempted to systematically eliminate all winning players," and further, it is wrong to say that PokerStars has implemented "a high rake making the game nearly unbeatable" since the rake for the relevant games is generally lower than other major competitors.  I would undo the edits as simple vandalism, but I serve as an employee of PokerStars and it would be inappropriate for me to do so. Aujoz (talk) 17:51, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I reverted the edit, but I do want to note that it was not DMacks who made that edit. It was actually added by an IP in this edit. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:36, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for cleaning it up, Apparition11! And thanks Aujoz for handling the COI aspect so well! DMacks (talk) 19:33, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes to Rake - October 2014 

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