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Originally Posted by LimpingManiac
People keep pretending there's no benefit from the site if the flops and hands are juicier for each individual player. Even 20% juicier setups= 20% more rake. A huge freaking deal.
No one's pretending.
Let's say you're at a table where the rake is 5%, the rake cap is $3, and you have $200. Next hand, you get a monster, get it all in, and lose. The site rakes $3, and if you're not buying in again, that's all they get from you.
Now suppose instead, you just get in $50 and lose, 4 different times over the next half hour. The site has now made $10 from your $200.
These are just two scenarios from thousands of possible ones, of course. But the point is that artificially getting people all-in isn't necessarily beneficial to them - in fact, it's likely detrimental. If a site were to rig the deal to make more money, they'd want people trading money back and forth all day long, in smaller pots. Less noticeable than big pots, and more profitable for them.
Or they could just deal a normal game and enjoy the substantial revenue that already provides them.