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Originally Posted by roy_miami
Exactly, so why the **** are you whining about this new policy if you agree its no better or worse than the old policy? And I would argue its better for everybody involved except those few regs that obviously felt like they gained some kind of an advantage, but at least I admit its arguable.
You are somewhat correct. Initially, with all the intense complaining that was going on, I thought that there was an interesting problem that needed solving. Now that I have a much deeper understanding of the issue, I realize that the fundamental problem can't be solved with table-starting rules. Whether or not it is worth 888's effort to monitor these tables to enforce rules that favour some players over others is up to 888 to figure out. It's consuming a small amount of resource; is there a payback? Are there, in fact, more hands being dealt at these stakes now?
There were a lot of accusations about unethical conduct which are largely baseless, except for the buttoning issue which could easily be fixed in the software. This buttoning issue deserves much more noise than the camping issue ainec.
As I've said, I'm surprised that 888 has adopted a rule that forces HU play having removed HU tables from the site. IMO, these high stakes tables suffer from the same issues that the HU tables did and an argument could be made that they, too, should be removed. Yeah, I can hear all the screaming already... but
888rep, if you're following this, I'm 100% serious that 888 would be better if they removed games that don't have a player mix that promotes stable games. From what I've seen these games spring up only sporadically and die very quickly. They generate little revenue for the site. It would be better for the site overall to get these players into the mainstream games. If they decide to go elsewhere, it's no big loss to 888; it's such a tiny portion of the revenue stream and the increase in revenue from the stable games would almost certainly counterbalance that loss.