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Originally Posted by ImmortalTechnique
+2 turbos are bad for poker in general and pretty much pointless, they arent (?) beatable without huge swings and take fish from games like turbos and reg speeds, turning poker into a lotto which is bad long term for everybody including full tilt.
This needs to be explained in detail, not just asserted, if there's to be any chance of getting rid of superturbos. Honestly, though, it's probably just not true.
Firstly, spreading games that recreational players like
is the way to keep the recreational players around, and secondly, spreading games with lower edges
is the way to keep money from being taken off the site.
The fact that they aren't beatable doesn't matter since the people playing them wouldn't beat other games either. In fact, their expectation may very well be higher in superturbos than in games with more skill.
But more fundamentally, FTP is providing a service that is very popular with many of its customers. As is always the case under a free enterprise system, FTP only succeeds as a business insofar as they give the customer what he wants. This leads to a win-win for both parties involved.
Certainly, superturbos are probably bad for us for the reasons that have been mentioned, but that doesn't make it ok for us to try to force superturbo players to play formats they'd rather not play or for us to try to force FTP not to spread games they'd rather spread.