Joined: May '08
Location: Germany
Age: 60 (M)
Posts: 6787
With the start of the new month Stars has added casino games to its clientsoftware for the regulated spanish market. The italian version is expected this year too, while a wider rollout is planned for 2015.
So the last bastion of pure p0ker has fallen. What do you think?
Joined: Jan '14
Location: Netherlands
Age: 35 (M)
Posts: 508
I don't like it, Pokerstars has made their money and is not a beginning site who needs to make millions from pure "the house wins". It should really keep being that pure poker site. Casino's at pokersites are really bankroll-wasting!
Joined: May '13
Location: Mauritius
Age: 33 (M)
Posts: 2688
yeah thanks to full tilt they tested it on fulltilt first, with the jackpot SNG and saw that there was a market there and thus they introduced that on poker stars it is like the flip out tournaments all over again and fulltilt becomes the testing field now, and there was the casino there first with BJ and so on though adrenaline rush was a fail! Anyway they ding it so that most money come there way and not on other players pockets. Good luck still a good site and have lots of traffic!
Joined: Mar '09
Location: Portugal
Age: 58 (M)
Posts: 1703
Well for me there no problem I don´t play any casino games Still a great poker site and it will always be the biggest of the market just a way to increase the mumber of players ans the chance for them to make more money For me is just the poker tables but some people may take the chance of playing some casino games hoping to cash some bucks
Joined: Oct '14
Location: Germany
Age: 42 (M)
Posts: 429
I do not care that with the start of this month PokkerStars has added casino games to its clientsoftware, because I usually do not play casino games. So I just do not click on the button and keep playing poker.
Joined: Jun '13
Location: Canada
Age: 81 (M)
Posts: 3700
There is so many casino site on the web and from what i see here a lot of them are not to reliable.
Do Poker Stars with teir reputation on deposit and cash out would probably got customer from other casino or at least keep their members that are customer of casino. I think its a good move from them
Joined: Jun '14
Location: Romania
Age: 30 (M)
Posts: 46
Same ideeas here. They should keep their reputation as pure poker place. When I hear or see Pokerstars, the first thing that comes in my mind, is poker, not a damn casino. It's bad, really bad. Maybe they can not "feed" all the bribery they have to pay. Jessus. God help us all!
Joined: Jan '13
Location: Philippines
Age: 59 (F)
Posts: 857
pokerstar now pokercasino.com????wow we cant blame them its on players control games for now,most people are weak of gambling they think its easy money,they dont think about the reverse on it,how if u fail to do it????good for others some are not,only way to survive is putting money at yur pocket.good luck on yur decision guys
Joined: May '08
Location: Germany
Age: 60 (M)
Posts: 6787
At the moment the situation is not that bad, as the only casino games at Stars are Blackjack and Roulette. No slot games to suck emty a bankroll in no time. So it could be much worse.
Joined: Mar '09
Location: Greece
Age: 48 (F)
Posts: 14196
I believe it I s like you said. At the moment Since they started adding casino games, then the slots wont take long to follow. Why not after all since the return they get from such games is even bigger than the one from poker.
Joined: Oct '08
Location: Estonia
Age: 49 (M)
Posts: 462
I dont like it at all, because i have problems with casino games. PS was my last resort, but if that goes, i think i quit playing poker at all, because i cant stay off casinogames, if pokersite is offering it. Im losing player, so no big deal, but in poker i lost waaay more slowly and i got some fun out of playing.
