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Originally Posted by SootedPowa
The "typical" recreational player model to me is simply sites trying to channel as much money as possible to themselves, while passing it off as "protecting recreational players".
This way any change that hurts all players (but usually full time players significantly more) can be passed off under this excuse, but of course it is just an excuse. There is nothing but hypocrisy from the sites as they exhibit predatory behaviour themselves towards rec customers on their sportsbooks, where they allow and encourage the fish to bet big on stupid bets and refuse to take action from anyone with a brain. Just like the regs they slam on their poker sites. They dont care about rec players and they dont even care about the long term "ecosystem" really, they only care about their bottom line and how much they can take from deposits.
If PokerStars REALLY cared about rec players they would implement changes like completely banning all software all together and severely limiting the maximum amount of tables that can be played. They would not go about it by raising the rake but then only informing goldstar+ of that fact, which is what they did recently. That is in fact targeting rec players when they claim to do the opposite.
bollocks ... picking out one example (in this case PS), doesn't represent the whole industry. and since i've read dozens of press releases about the rec model the last 5+ years, i certainly can tell, that "predatory behaviour" and "sustainable economy" SOUNDS like the typical recreational player model.
besides that, my comment was a reply to Galfondprodigys question about a potential SNE status, and if you read PGs blog carefully, you prolly come to the conclusion, that there won't be any high volume grind rewards (could be a miss interpretation from me, we'll see) in terms of higher and higher rake back, which again is from the 101 of recreational player model playbook.
since the poker room has the poker training site branding, it wouldn't be a huge surprise, if the reward system is somehow interlinked between both ... but enough of the derailing
i didn't say it in any negative way (e.g. some smaller rooms had quite success with such changes ... b/c they weren't filled with too many regs) and i stand to my 1st post, that PG is prolly one of just a few 'former poker-pros', i think could manage running a poker room.
How he runs it, if it works and all the other stuff can't be predicted though