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Originally Posted by Stake Monster
KOTH, i've come to accept just helps the top 2% of players and doesn't really promote action. All it promotes is "ok" players at 5/10 playing 1/2 and destroying the "very good" players at that level. It funnels the skill levels towards the bottom of the stakes, making it extremely hard to ever move up.
This part of your post is a joke. First, you make up a statistic. KOTH has never been implemented, so proclaiming that it will only help 2% of players is a lie.
KOTH, depending on how it's implemented, will produce action. You either play or you don't. How that's anything other than good for poker, and sites in general, I know not.
Tell me, what does the current system do to funnel players? I'll tell you, it funnels everything down a toilet bowl to where 2% of players actually get to play hands. 1) they are lucky to get action 2) they sit at as many tables as possible. See, I can make up statistics too. But my overall point is way more close to the truth than what you claimed.
You honestly think the status quo is something that should continue? I mean, really KOTH is the only solution to changing the HU landscape and it's been that way for years. Prevents table whores from being table whores, bum hunters from being bum hunters. Will make people either attempt at playing semi competent HU players or play other forms of poker like 6m, 9m, PLO, etc etc -- all good things for poker in general and poker sites explicitly.
Again, you can't argue this based on any stats (as KOTH has yet to exist), but I am arguing it against what I've seen for years now -- people sitting out constantly and clogging lobbies. Make people play or leave. It's that simple and it's that pure.
Last edited by easycall; 01-17-2012 at 03:21 PM.