Be careful what you wish for.

Following the great ratholing debate Pokerstars have changed buyins on tables as follows:

20-50bb
40-100bb
100-250bb fast ante

This is not what we were hoping for and it looks ratholers still have a comfortable home at stars.

I am having some time off and haven't been able to play but from what I can see the changes are pretty bad news for any reg who chooses to play 100bb's deep and likes to see some fish in the pond.

I did a HEM scan this morning and all the recreational players seem to be sitting with the ratholers at the 20-50bb tables, and the regs are sitting at 40-100bb tables passing money to each other.

There are some 100-250bb tables running (again filled with regs) but the decision to make these tables fast only when people can be sitting 500+bb's deep clearly shows that the decision makers at stars do not play too much poker themselves. To have normal speed 20-50bb tables and fast only 100-250bb ante tables makes no sense at all!

In addition the tables are labelled 20-50bb, 40-100bb and 100-250bb ante, rather than the obviously clearer and better shallow, normal and deep ante. This is a big deal imo and shows stars are trying too hard to placate the ratholers.

I will post more when I have actually got some hands in but I am concerned to say the least. My initial reaction is Stars just moved themsleves below FTP in the pecking order and that is something I never thought I would say :(

Edit:
It appears that the regs that were very vocal in their hate for shorties are starting to sit on the shallow (20-50bb) tables. Begs the question why they wanted things changed in the first place.