PokerStars Compensates Players for Zoom Debacle
The world’s largest real money online poker room, PokerStars, had a little bit of egg on its face following a 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure "Zoom Challenge" that turned out to be more of a challenge for the company itself after a handful of players were deemed to have received an “unfair advantage”.
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Now PokerStars is set to compensate the affected players. Four additional players were set to be bumped up to the 8th placement, receiving $2,360 each, and three other players will receive an additional $2,360 bonus.
From PokerFuse.com:
The one-off promotion, charging a $1000+50 entry and allowing repeated buy-ins by players, drew the ire of participants after alleged last-day changes to the promotion’s operational structure allowed several players to participate in a group, against each other, and thereby receive an advantage.
Four of the eight in-the-money finishers as originally determined came from two separate groups of five players that were allowed to play simultaneously, whereas on earlier days, Stars workers reportedly only allowed players to participate individually or in pairs.
“Sometimes in the preparation for a promotion you don't think of all the angles and we didn't think of all of them this time. We're sorry,” PokerStars official Lee Jones said in a statement issued by the company in response to the debacle.
- Ace King, Gambling911.com
