PokerStars Rewards Reductions And Other Changes Rile Up Players

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Poker players in New Jersey and around the world may have received some unwelcoming news this week. PokerStars will reduce the reward point earning rate for MTTs in its Stars Rewards program. This change is the first of several tweaks expected throughout 2019.

Specifically, the site announced the changes include a reduction in the reward point earning rate for scheduled multi-table tournaments (MTT), shifting from 100 reward points for every $/€1 in tournament fees paid to 45 reward points.

This change will go into effect in all countries that PokerStars is available on Friday, Feb. 15. The company says it will continue to tweak the Stars Rewards program as it receives player feedback on how to focus its investments.

“This is a reduction in the overall amount of rewards some players will receive, but made in an area that we believe will have the least impact on their experience and enable us to place even more focus where we know it matters most,” the company said in a news release via its blog.

The changes apply to New Jersey as well as Pennsylvania, which is set to go online soon.

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For instance, a few of the more popular US poker websites such as Lock Poker was, are for all intents and purposes were a little too closely related to the betting commission that regulated them; a major dispute of interest. Take another example, the once Outright Poker and Ultimate Bet. Each of these companies were owned by Tokwiro Enterprises, which is a personal business entirely owned by Joseph Tokwiro Norton and locateded in Kahnawake Mohawk Area. This area is a small (48.05 square kilometers) sovereign Indian booking on the south coast of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec with a population of about 8,000. The betting commission which regulated these two websites was likewise in the Kahnawake Mohawk Area and called the Kahnawake Gaming Commission (ehh, exactly what?).

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