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Originally Posted by richdog
I can see why Stars are trying to kill the mid/hs games as the skill level between recs and regs is far too great and the recs never win. Essentially Stars pays 000's to attract players to their site and at those stakes players, who do nothing to attract the deposit, take the vast majority of any deposit made.
The reg posters in this thread hate things like spins but in all honestly it is the only way a rec is ever going to win big these days. And that is the dream after all.
Re: rake back just do away with it. Lower the rake a bit and give every net deposit a % of it back as cash tickets/spin tickets/tourney tickets or whatever the rec plays.
The only way there are games in the future is to give a chance / reward to those who ultimately find the games.
How about doing something with :
-bots- this is the biggest issue across every poker site believe me games would be at worst 2011-2012 if we got rid of bots/in play software aids
-seating scripts (been 2 years? since they promised to solve the issue and get rid of them)
-limit software aid further (things like note caddy and the advanced HUD is just insane nothing more like basic HUD should be allowed if any)
The VIP reward system is already giving very little for regs. So if they really cared about recreational players/ecosystem they would do sth about the thngs I mentioned first. Instead they are just like
'lets money brab further lets see how much more we can squezz from the games and get away with it."
Like seriously having huge unsolved game integrity problems like bots and seating scripts for years yet doing nothing about it and taking away even the minuscule rakeback we had. Good Luck being PLO reg next year (and being micro stakes reg in any cash game with 10bb/100+ rake and no rakeback).
They will do exactly the same as 888 I guess allow bots to grind because no one with half brain will grind the games otherwise.