Pokershare wasn’t stealing UB’s players, quite the opposite!
Pokershare ended up not offering rake back, and sharing the same skin as UB. That opened them up to theft of their players by UB rake back affiliates.
UB was simply afraid to compete against Pokershare, because Pokershare had a business model both players and affiliates could embrace.
They were not going to steal UB’s players, they dared to try to compete in the open marketplace with all the other pokerrooms, including UB.
UB’s actions, or I guess rather Ecapsa’s at UB’s urging, put Pokershare more or less out of business and in the process screwed the affiliates out of their rightful income.
I call it stabbing in the back because they gave no warning, used Poker Share’s Ecom-arts email facility and wrote a letter appearing to come from Poker Share to deceive players. Then they went and removed poker share’s affiliate account from Income Access affiliates without even notifying them.
I do call that practicing deception and stabbing in the back and some unsavory things better not written in this forum.