A General Strike is About to Break Out on PokerStars.com

The model had been set up at the French PokerStars site, and players of PokerStars.com now following suit by planning to paralyze cash game tables this Sunday. The strike is already under planning on 2+2.

As I have mentioned in the post linked above, players at PokerStars.fr have to pay a larger amount of rake, than players at PokerStars.com. Clubpoker organized a strike, and on the 4th July the French players invaded the cash game tables at PokerStars.fr to go on sit-out, thus protesting against the high rake fees. 

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On the 2+2 forums, another strike is planned to be held, but this time on PokerStars.com. Their main goal is to represent solidarity with the French, although several other goals have been discussed. One of the organizers; ’real fix’, for example, would recommend the following slogan: 

"We cannot keep playing against the French and Italian fish. Please join our global strike!"

The PokerStars.com strike will be held on Sunday, 11th July (4-7 pm GMT). The organizers are requesting the players that choose to join the strike to buy in at ten cash game tables with one tenth of their bankroll (if, for example, we have $1000, we should sit down to 10 NL1000 tables). This is to make sure that the strike does not only affect micro-limit tables.