Now Lock is "segregating" their high stakes games from the rest of the network!

This is a very bad sign!

Basically, all games above 1/2 NL are NOT available to be played through other skins, and can only be played against other Lock players!

Here is the discussion of it on 2+2:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/19...ation-1297091/

Here is the analysis from one of our users, via PM:

Obviously the question here is why would they do this. From what I understand they are segregating every limit over 1/2 from other skins. Imjustshane claims its to better the poker ecology and that they're looking out for their own players(LOL).
IMO these are potential reasons for doing this:

-They are expecting/experiencing huge chip dumps to other skins like intertops b/c of cashout times.

-They don't have the $ to transfer to other skins if their player loses.

-Lock could already be way behind on paying the other skins.

Cashouts from Lock at the moment are:

-2 months for ROW players
-3-4 months for a check
-2 months for Western Union
I agree with this analysis.

This is yet another strong sign that Lock is almost broke.

They have probably realized that people can either dump to other skins such as Intertops (and thus Lock would have to pay Intertops that money), along with the fact that they can't afford to pay the skins right now even if dumping isn't occurring, and the losses are legitimate!

Here is 2+2 rep's imjustshane's poor explanation of the situation:

We offer all the same stakes as everyone on the network but we have partitioned some of our higher stakes based on our current size and our soft poker ecology to better care for our players.

A healthy poker ecology is a combination of grinder type players who always ensure there is action as well as casual type players who always bring fresh deposits in.


Basically he's trying to say that Lock doesn't want its "soft" players to chunk off money to players on other skins, and wants to leave these fish for Lock's own pros to beat.

Bullshit.

Very soon it will become clear that Lock is the next UB/Full Tilt.