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Originally Posted by Afterlyfe
I agree with the other points you made but this is a poor attitude towards a really good promotion that makes ACR, well...ACR. If you don't think recs (or all player types rather) are motivated by these promotions, you're wrong. If you think the bots aren't winning at the games pre-rakeback, you're wrong. A lot of them are actually crushing and if you think ones with small winrates would go away without these promotions, you're also wrong.
If you bring the game integrity to an acceptable level, low levels of this promotion become easier, the games become easier, and everyone has more fun.
This.
And please please PLEASE don't let every John Smith have the ability to captcha people. If you want to give credible and proven people the power to do this, who won't abuse it because they lost a pot vs someone they have 30 hands with...fine.
What % of the beast leaderboard is recs every week? I’d bet it’s close to 0.
I never play cash on ACR just because of these promotions, they demotivate me. They’ll motivate a rec for a week or two but once the recs realize how much volume is needed to qualify and how the same players are always at the top of the leaderboard (while bots take a lot of $ out as well) it feels like a scam masked as a promotion because of all the extra rake paid without getting any return. When I did try cash on ACR I just paid other players for playing a lot of poker. They didn’t necessarily beat me directly and win my money on the tables but I still end up paying them.
I’d rather play cash on a site where I can track my opponents and use a hud than play anonymously but because of the Beast I play cash on ignition. Without the beast the player pool in those games would be more diverse
Long term they motivate mass multitabling regs, shortstacking & bots who don’t get tired or have other responsibilities. Mass multitabling rakeback pros don’t make the games uber appealing either with all the timing down. Status quo ACR doesn’t work for a lot of people
Last edited by Kidman411; 02-14-2018 at 10:52 AM.