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Originally Posted by Ray Zee
adjust blinds and rake so the grinders and better players can actually win some money.
This sounds ridiculously self serving.
At 40/80 a preflop raise and a BB defend puts $180 into the pot. A $9 drop plus tip equals 5%. If the PFR bets through and BB calls down, that's $580 in the pot and the $9 charge is less than 2%.
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give an incentive to play in the in between game to get it established.
But it was established, and stopped. Offering limited incentives to jump start something is one thing, but if you make it permanent then it's the same as the first point.
Plus higher incentives just mean the game will ONLY run when incentivized.
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actually, start games in between the next higher stakes if it is too high unless its a nosebleed game that doesnt apply.
You'll split the player pools.
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it does take some time and work but eventually builds a well balanced poker room that can grow.
Fundamentally, do you think poker is growing?
I see whatever changes people make now about limiting damage control, not growing.
This should be obvious, but compare traffic at peak times, like what it was like to show up and play 8/16 or 20/40 on a Friday night five years ago vs today. The Oaks used to use all those side rooms (where the tables dont have autoshufflers), with lists 20 deep for every game. The last time I dropped by the main room wasn't even filled. I have never played at Bay during peak times but I bet the trend is similar - you're reaching a point where cannibalization of your existing games is a concern. If the YOY numbers are stable it'd probably exceed expectations.
And this will probably come off as somewhat mean but if poker players hadn't spent so much time fighting what would have been normal inflation-adjusted rake increases in the past, maybe there'd be some room for a rake decrease now. It's seriously like the Fed rate being sub-2% when the next financial crisis hits, contrary to popular belief you can't run a marathon by sprinting full speed all the time.