Even if they don't explicitly support Trump, they are clearly making a play on his slogan, which therefore brings politics into the matter. Almost no chance that is good for business.

But ok, let's be more specific.

I claim that I can show greater than 17k worth of cashouts, with no deposits, on Paypal from the time span Sept 3 - Nov 3, or two months. This is to say nothing of the money I've made that I've kept on the site (or money I've made live, for that matter).

2p2 account bet, Big Bwalz? You ready to show them bwalz?

Agreed, which was a point I made in my first post on the subject. Regardless of anyone's personal political leanings, it seems like quite the bad idea ...

Will someone shut up all these damn crickets!

Finna go play video games. Will check back in a few hours to see if Lil Bwals has worked up some courage. Sad!

Thanks Warren Buffet.

B-O-O H-O-O

I bet there is almost no chance that players left the site due to that slogan. I despise all politicians and if they had dozens of them from around the globe on their homepage I could care less as long as the tables are as generous as they have been. No one is deciding to play on a site based on a slogan.

A company would have to be pretty stupid to market their product based on political ideologies, especially in the US. You are instantly losing half the market. Occam's Razor, most poker players yearn for the pre-black Friday days. Fast payouts and tables filled with bad players is in fact, making poker great for me. Again.

Maybe no one has quit the site because of it. We can't know. I doubt anyone is playing here precisely because of it, as you said.

Still, slogans are part of a business strategy and help customers identify with brands. I'm sure that most businesses like to think their slogan improves customer retention and has positive associations. When you pick a slogan, you are choosing to associate yourself with whatever connections come to mind.

So why choose a slogan that you know is going to be associated with someone who is largely despised?

Even if they are "Making Poker Great Again" (which I totally agree that they are) I don't understand why they would want to give off the impression that they either tolerate the original creator or are indifferent to the plight of various groups of people the slogan offends.

Given we are discussing it here as it is, it seems more likely to offend than to retain customers.

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One caveat - if you wanted to make the suggestion that poor players are easily tricked and therefore more likely to support the president, perhaps it does help retain idiots.

I actually think it is the example I speak of exactly. You are saying yourself, he likely wasn't going to invest money anyway so the slogan wasn't the turn off, although he didn't care for it.

I am not here to argue if it is a net positive or net negative (how could you even prove that?). I just think there isn't a chance that anyone who is 100% going to play at Global, gets ready with the money, sees the slogan and says "Nope, I am out".

And on the other hand I don't think anyone who wasn't ever going to invest money in the site, then sees the slogan and says "I am 100% in!". I see it more of an neutral thing.

With that said, if it got changed, no complaints here, if it stayed the same, no complaints here.

Sometimes mole hills are windmills are actually just mole hills and windmills.

Consider yourself fortunate that you have a "neutral" reaction to something associated with Donald Trump. Recognize that many people do not.

You have a hard time imagining someone not playing because of the slogan due to the fact that it is neutral to you.

The idiots are the people that somehow conflate the banner to a political slogan.

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Actually, it's far more than that. It's common sense.

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Nah bro, it sure as hell ain't. The idiots are definitely the ones who don't appreciate the connection.

I actually don't have a hard time imagining it, I have an impossible time imagining it. I really can't imagine someone being so closed minded that they would be 100% ready to play on a poker site, see a reference they it makes that could just as easily be making fun of the expression (something I would assume they would be just fine with), and then not playing because of the flawed assumption of association with a political figure. Its just too far of a stretch for me.

It's called common sense and since you have it, you will never see the illogic behind it.

If it was a good online poker room, I'd even play on a site that featured a photograph of Hillary Clinton on the main page.

Every president in my lifetime since Eisenhower has been destroying our country.

The Republicrats have conspired to create a 20 trillion dollar debt and endless wars and military conquests. Neither of the major parties cares a whit about the average American, let alone the poor.

The first step in "Making America Great Again" is to stop sending taxpayer money to Washington. Repeal the income tax, and let foreigners fund our government with tariffs. Supplement the income from tariffs with geo-taxes and user fees. Stop feeding the monster!

Make America Great Again by telling the government to stop telling us what we can eat, smoke, or snort. True freedom will only come when NO American citizen has to pay a dime in federal income tax.

Thank you for reading, and God bless America!

(Maybe my rant should be moved to the politics thread)

Exactly. (And for what's its worth, I voted for neither candidate, I am one of those truly crazy voted for a 3rd party kind of people)

as expected GLOBAL screws up funds .

Global took funds from bank account as requested after tedious process to set up .

now after all that - it asks from debit card when trying to get funds from bank account !

A tedious process? How can your personal information be tedious?



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Good troll

no more freerolls? basically only the daily flops now sad, mad. please bring back the daily 500 freerolls? or better.

I am mixed on the freerolls. The truth is the $250 was getting around 85-90 players each night, and the $2.5k around 350-400. As of right now, 2 hours before the tourney, 507 people are signed up for the daily. And we will see on the weekend one, but I have a hunch its numbers will increase as well.

I think this is much due to the fact you only need 50 flops of any game time, including Gold Coins. And truth be told, $500 spread out among 600~ players is likely better for the site than $250 spread out among 90~

But still... I am with you, something about it bugs me too, and I can't quite figure out what it is. Maybe the $0.11 entry fee? I get that its more of a token fee than in any way going to pay for the tourney, but still... something about it irks me.

So I am with you, even though I can't figure out why

Previous structure:


Nightly:
7 pm EST - $250 GTD, .11c buyin, ~240 players [play gold coin hands to qualify]
9 pm EST - $250 GTD, freeroll, ~90 players
930 pm est - $250 GTD, 11c buyin, ~175 players [play gold coin hands to qualify]
10pm EST - $250 GTD, 11c buyin, ~200 players [play gold coin hands to qualify]

Sunday:
$2k GTD freeroll

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Current Structure:
Nightly:
9 pm EST - $500 GTD, .11c buyin, ~600 players

Sunday:
$5 GTD - 11c buyin

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Global giving out slightly less in guarantees/freerolls each week ($9k before, $8.5k now).

They also collected about the same amount of 11 cent buyins last night as they normally did with the previous structure (granted, only in one tournament instead of three tournaments).

Bigger, single, tournies means that there is a higher 1st place prize, which I personally prefer (although I understand if people prefer a higher volume of smaller tournies).

The new structure also takes down the "wall" of people having to play gold coin hands in order to qualify for these tournies. A lot of people can't bring themselves to play the gold coin tournies to qualify for these, so allowing people to just see SC flops to qualify will lead to more people playing in the tourneys (as evidenced by last night).

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What is stated above is just facts. It appears to be about the same amount of money going into freerolls / guarantees with 11c buyin, just distributed differently.

Personally, I'm not quite sure what I prefer. But I feel like the above breakdown is a pretty good distribution of the old vs new structure. I do like the idea of someone winning ~$1k on Sunday for an 11 cent buyin

Where is your rake posted on your website? Why is shorthanded rake not reduced for games above 1-2? Why is your rake still the highest in the business when your software is still buggy and you are trying to grow traffic to a new site? That's all.