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I kinda like this..... pretty sure the categorizing is only to separate Lock players from the rest of the network. Plus side, LOCK HAS WAAAAAY MORE FISH.... Seeing as lock is the network provider, they really wouldn't do anything like this unless it were better for their players and worse for their competition (the rest of the network)
You don't understand. What you're talking about lock has already done before this. Weeks ago.
Lock has already segregated everything 1/2 and over from the rest of the network. So if you're playing Lock you see all the network+lock tables up to and including .5/1 but anything over 1/2 you only see lock tables. Same on intertops or other skins, just that at 1/2+ you see all the network tables
except the lock tables.
What is happening now is the network provider(Lock??) has decided that all the skins on the network (lock,intertops,cake,etc) will have a special software or sth that categorizes players as winning or losing (obv it's more complicated then that but there's not much info out there). Winning players only see 1 kind of tables (that have other winning players) and losing players get to play with losing players. That is on top of the lock/network segregation of 1/2+
Again, just to be clear, I'm simplifying the whole winning/losing player concept because there's not much info about what the categories and/or criteria will be, but you have to figure that considering the size of the player pool (especially 200NL+ where there's barely any tables most of the time), it would be impossible to have 3 different lobbies for three different types of players
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they really wouldn't do anything like this unless it were better for their players
Think about this:
If a losing player deposits and sits on a table with all regs, he will lose his money fast and a few $ of rake will be generated in the few hrs he plays with the regs getting most of the money (and paying rake themselves of course, but getting higher RB than the fish).
If a losing player deposits and plays only losing players, basically no-one has an edge so they keep trading money forever (again, simplified). But rake is taken. So in the long run, all the fish are without their deposits, the site keeps taking rake until they take all their deposits and the losing players are busto not because they lost to a player on the site, but they lost it all to rake.
Net = On the first kind of table, rake made by the site is way less, and rake paid by the regs is less b/c they have higher rb (they play more)
In second scenario, ALL the deposits of the losing player go to rake and less rb is paid on that as well.
Last edited by Jah Onion; 03-01-2013 at 01:21 PM.