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Originally Posted by girafganger7
here is the list of all my friends who would have played the 5k or atleast try to satellite but decided to skip it:
This lists keeps growing, soon i will reach out to lower/midstakes guys and also other communties.
It is understandable that frustration is arising because of PS increasing rake and reducing rakeback, effectively taking money out of the pockets of players and putting it into theirs. However, the effectiveness of your proposed boycott of today's tournament seems questionable for basically one reason: PS essentially has a monopoly on the industry of online poker.
How many of the players you listed would be able to make their same income without playing on PS? Probably none. PS could actually continue to increase rake and decrease rakeback even more if they wanted, and what are all of you online high-stakes pros going to do? Switch to other sites? Play live only? As long as other options aren't viable, PS would appear to have all the leverage in the relationship between you and them.
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Originally Posted by raidalot
it's important to send a message about how MTT players feel about this constant money-grabbing by stars.
High-stakes pros, who study and strive to maximize their revenue, would seem to be hypocritical for criticizing PS for attempting to maximize their own revenue.
Last edited by Big_Bad_Bill; 02-17-2019 at 08:25 AM.