Originally Posted by
Edward Teach
sorry, I don't know enough about the other 2 to really respond
FPP situation: After Black Friday, in order to make nice with the DOJ, Stars agreed to cash out the FULL VALUE of every US player's accounts, including FPPs. They inexplicably made you cash out FPPs in blocks of 2500, meaning that any remainder in your account (1-2499 FPPs, which will occur for over 99.9% of players) will not be able to be cashed out. This sounds like small potatoes, until you multiply it by their millions of real money accounts and realize how much money they stole this way.
ZOOM situation: See the Scams, Scandals, and Shadiness forum. Basically, it was a novelty $1k tournament where people played one at a time. They allowed a change in the rules at the very end that SEVERELY benefited the last 10 players, to where everyone else beforehand had very little change to have cashed. Stars reviewed the complaints after PLOL made a stink about it on 2+2, but ultimately only awarded an extra $2,360 to affected players who cashed or were on the bubble, cheating people who should have earned much more than that (as much as $7k) had the screw-up not occurred. Stars did not give any explanation how they came to the $2,360 figure, other than that it was the min-cash value. People were cheated out of thousands. PLOL played in this tournament.
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