A second PokerStars boycott by high-stakes and high-variance players is apparently neglecting to make a dent that is discernible at minimum on the internet site’s traffic numbers.

Around 1,600 players subscribed to the protest, according to organizers.

The previous week, while Sunday, January 3rd remained on par with figures from the same day the previous week per industry number-cruncher PokerScout.com, while traffic dipped on January 1st, the first day of the strike, it actually rose on January 2nd, in comparison with the same day.

Of course, it’s impossible to understand simply how much the sudden dearth of high stakes players affects PokerStars’ daily rake, and whether all the players whom pledged to stay out have in truth proved true to their word.

The boycott, which is due to end Thursday, January 7th, has been organized by a number of groups including WeArePokerPlayers.com and Tiltbook.com, along with a number of high-profile, high stakes players on the 2+2 forums, in protest towards an overhaul that is major the VIP system, which took impact on January 1st.

PokerStars announced in November that these changes would add scrapping Supernova Elite rewards for 2016, despite the achievement with this status being a two-year process.

Boycott Backfired?

PokerStars claims that the changes are created to improve the poker ecology, but they leave high-stakes, high-volume players high and dry.

While these players represent a number of your website’s avid that is most, long-term, and high-ranking players, they are usually net-withdrawing players as opposed to the hordes of net-depositors that the internet poker giant is anxious to attract.

The boycott that is first place between December 1st and 3rd, with 2,600 players joining in the sit out. But that occasion clashed with the PokerStars Christmas telecharger club player casino Festival, so traffic figures remained similar, except that those high-stakes players were replaced with lower stakes players attracted by low buy-ins and jackpot awards.

While PokerStars is likely to have raked less during that duration, it declared itself vindicated by the boycott december.

‘During the three-day boycott we recorded the healthiest consecutive three-day ecosystem outcomes of the season with steady net gaming revenue, even though our net-depositing players lost at a much lower rate than they will have all year,’ wrote Eric Hollreiser, VP of Communications for PokerStars and Amaya.

More Boycotts Planned

The players that are affected undeterred, but, and are determined to exhibit PokerStars that they can make the operator’s life difficult.

And much more boycotts are planned in the future. WeArePokerPlayers.com has launched a campaign looking for 5,000 signatures to accept at the very least a month-long hit, while other protestors have recommended that a 10,000-player boycott could reduce PokerStars’ rake by as much as 30 %.

On New Year’s time, Ike Haxton became the second pokerStars that are high-profile to resign in disgust at the modifications, after the example of Alex Millar, who severed ties using the site prior to the getaway duration.

‘As a four time Supernova Elite, I am aware what it requires to rake 1M VPP in a year,’ wrote haxton on 2+2. ‘It’s a tough routine. For most of the players who do it, it is an all-consuming commitment more intense than most full time jobs.

‘Many of them have actually relocated far from their homes and families to pursue it,’ he added. ‘Finding out, just while you expected them to be is brutal as you approach the finish line, that your efforts will not be rewarded. We cannot in good conscience continue to endorse a poker site that treats its players this way.’