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Originally Posted by Thrash370
It is scary when everyone is clamoring to hit SNE rewards. SNGs at least won't be the same without SNEs, if you encroach much further a lot of regs will cease to exist as plenty are getting killedddd pre rb. This is but a drop in the bucket, generates less then 200k for pokerstars yet is being lauded as a win when they can easily afford this expense. For those saying that they will use this money for recs just look at what they did with BOTP freeroll, took away the freeroll and have provided less promotions this year than years past for SNGs. Pokerstars can feel this way as a lot of players have attacked SNEs in recent years in these forums.
This post is sanity (good) and players should not underestimate this seemingly "insignificant" change in policy.
It is very true that we don't want poker profits based on rakeback schemes however the reduced rake back should ALWAYS be guaranteed in to remain in the players pool side of the economics.
Here we have a situation we're governments take a higher cut, and this is passed on to the winners of the game. This causes the game to lose a portion of its "skill" based game-play. Intelligent players leave and the field gets more b/e.
This is in a time where the average field is already quite breakeven based on regulations and policies that are continually being bred into existence. Stars profits and wins, governments profit and win, and poker is stripped of its "essence".
No way that this tax should be passed onto the players IN ANY FORM!!!
If they players cannot rally behind this and see the underlying truth of it...how can we call ourselves "game theorists".
Monies that are taken from SNE and given back to recs is money that gets rake a 2nd time.