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Originally Posted by JasonP530
I don't think I am being shortsighted. If I win 2 pots per hour with the BBJ and play 2000 hours, that's 4k a year. Going mostly to players at lower limits while adding the wasted time to fill and make change at my game.
It looks bad when you look at it like that, thats why you shouldn't look it like that!!!! Sounds silly but it makes sense.
Same with tipping, take those same numbers and maybe average tip of $2 twice an hour and you are giving up $8000 per year. If you had a flashing vision of $8000 being flushed down the toilet every time you won a hand nobody would ever tip, so don't drive yourself crazy and worry about stuff like that. It's good to be aware of it, but life is too short to stress about that. There is a fine line between the unaware who tip $5 everyhand and not tipping at all.... ( I used $2 avg because even though you might tip $1 hand, with big pots I even see you nits tip $5+ occasionally even though long run its horrible to do)
Same with rake, those numbers used make it $20000 /year in rake at 2/5 before the extra $1. Thinking of it in those terms all the time will make you hate the PARX for not treating you better!!
Assuming $1 tip you are now paying $7 total instead of $6 for a 15% increase in the cost of winning a hand. So cost is going up 15%. I'd argue that better games can account for a lot of that 15%, whether its more or less I really don't know. What I do know is recreational players love the BBJ idea, the more of those players the better. In addition to that when the jackpot gets high, the room will be busier, lots of rec players will come and squeeze in extra trip just because the BBJ is so high. In addition they will play even worse then normal to try to hit the BBJ. More bad players, playing even worse then normal when the BBJ gets high sounds fun and exciting to me.
Here is another pro BBJ factor. You still can win it!! Yes even you winning players too! You don't even need to be the big winner, just being at the table could get some of that money back. So aside from recouping that extra 15% in rake by the games being better, maybe you get some of the money directly back by being at the table when it hits.