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Originally Posted by spadebidder
This point turns out to be very significant. I've talked to some folks who know, and when a poker site does revenue projections, there are really only two variables for cash games. How many players are sitting in seats on a 24/7 averaged basis (such as is shown on PokerScout) and what are the average stakes being played. The second one is relatively constant once a site is established and only changes slowly over time. And of course the rake scale is fixed. So the first variable is the one that must be affected by any rigging scheme if it is to be profitable. They have to have more players sitting in seats and being dealt hands. Nothing else matters.
So any plausible rigging scheme has to result in more players sitting in seats. That is the only way the site makes more money.
So in that point my theory makes sense.
Lets imagine a HU scenario in an poker room where just these 2 players are connected and playing, to make the thinking more easy.
Lets imagine the bad player is wanting to waste maximum 2 BI playing HU before stop playing and going to sleep, the longer the better player takes to win those 2 BI more rake will be generated. The better player could be wanting to play more, but as the bad player went to bed theres no one more to play against. That means zero rake for the site.
This is a simplistic scenario but you can transpose it to larger scale. The poker rooms want to keep more players playing longer they can.
Another way to think that maybe easier is to imagine a site with 1000 players logged in. 500 of that players are fish and 500 are good players. In the long run the flow of money will go from the bad players to the good players.
Lets imagine the good players are all running very good and in 2 hours all 500 bad players lose all their bankroll and stop playing. All the 500 good players keep logged and playing.
What happenend? To the point of view of the poker room, in 2 hours there were 1000 players generating rake for them, and now they have just 500 players, so the profit rate went down 50%.
So it comes to:
1. More people playing, more rake
2. The longer the losing players take to lose their poker bankroll and stop playing more rake is generated to the site.