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Originally Posted by Joshua Herrick
Agreed, there can be a number of different reasons a person decides to get dealt in. Those thousands of PS play chip players are going to play for hours on end for 0 dollars. All of those players are getting above zero dollars playing on this web site. It is inconceivable that none of them would make the decision to devote those hours on BUP.
I never said that NONE of them would leave to play on BUP. How many would or will do so would take some pretty heavy marketing calculations to predict. Even then it could be way off the mark, plus fairly impossible to measure unless BUP management surveyed each new member when they joined (highly unlikely). I only gave some reasons why I and possibly some of the others who play free on Stars (CoffeeMagic for sure), have made that decision. Without polling each and every one of those players though, I can't say for certain what their personal reasons for playing there might be. Some of them who live in places other than the US may actually be playing for cash as well as free. We simply don't know.
Also, you say these players spend "hours on end" on Stars, but no one but Stars management knows how much time they actually play on the site. I can tell you that I certainly don't spend "hours on end" there, and I'm sure it varies greatly from player to player.
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Originally Posted by Joshua Herrick
To play poker for any other reason than to + the most dollars is a mistake.
Well, if that's your reason for playing then I'm sorry to break this news to you, but you're definitely on the wrong site
. If you can, try and count up the number of hours it takes you to make $10 on BUP. A lot, right? Yeah, it takes a hell of a lot of hours of play to earn 15,000 coins. I can make $10 playing $.05/.10 ring games on Merge or Chico, just playing an hour or two.
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Originally Posted by Joshua Herrick
I apologize but I have to support that which is attempting to increase the poker community.
Apologize away. However, cannibalizing players from one site to play on another as you're suggesting, does nothing to increase the poker community. Only bringing new players to the game can do that.
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Originally Posted by Joshua Herrick
It's clear if the players were to be given the ability to see a logo-less felt the server population would see an immediate increase.
Clear?? Exactly what accepted statistical marketing formula did you use to come to this conclusion? Sorry, but your opinion or gut instinct is not a valid basis for calculating the expected effect or time frame that such a change would produce. In actual fact only players who are already members of the site would actually have "the ability to see a logo-less felt", so the chance of this change producing an immediate increase in traffic is clearly.....ZERO.
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Originally Posted by Joshua Herrick
Why aren't all of those PS play chip players now cashing on BUP?
I infer from this statement that you're suggesting every player on BUP is a winner, and that every PS free chip player who comes to BUP will also be a winner as well? Seriously?? I guess you don't know that the majority of players on any online poker site are losers? Of course in BUP's case, since you don't play with cash you have nothing to "lose", but that certainly doesn't mean that everyone will actually make money playing here. You can just as easily spend "hours on end" on BUP as anywhere else and never achieve the minimum $10 cashout.
Sorry, but your conclusions are as full of holes as a piece of swiss cheese.