Eric Hollreiser, Amaya Head of Communications, responds:






Of course, this is a bullshit response.

Saying "There are going to be significant changes" and failing to note that they will be very grinder-unfriendly (and reducing already-earned benefits) is not considered sufficient warning.

Sufficient warning would have been something like, "We are considering removing the SNE tier after 2016, and lowering the benefits as of 1/1/16 for those who already earned it. Please note this before putting in the time and effort to make Supernova Elite."

"Changes are coming" is just lol. Hollreiser would be better off just not responding than writing such tripe.

The funny thing is that all of this would be 100% fine in most people's books if they just made the transition to the new system more ethically.

Change the conversion rate from 1.2 to 1.6, don't reduce the SNE benefits in 2016, and keep giving rakeback for high limit games. Then don't allow anyone to earn SNE for 2016 unless they are grandfathered, and kill it entirely in 2017.

Amaya being way too greedy here for some short term gain. The goal should be the long term poker economy, and they shouldn't have an issue grandfathering existing SNE people into full benefits for the next 14 months.