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Originally Posted by LektorAJ
2 possible models for a rakeback system that would actually be good for the games:
1) Your rake back percentage (for 6-max) is your (VPIP-20)x5. If you are nitting it up and playing under 20 VPIP, you get no rakeback - if you play VPIP 30 then you get 50% rakeback all the way up to 100% rakeback for people VPIPing 40 or more. The equation is obviously adjusted as appropriate for full ring and other forms of poker.
2) Straight loss-back. If you're ahead you get nothing, if you are losing long-term you get your rake paid returned to you - maybe even double your rake so the money keeps going round in the games.
In both cases the rakeback isn't in the form of cash but of cash tickets, tournament tickets, T$ etc. to encourage the people who feed the games to keep playing.
Neither of the above will ever be implemented by PS though.
Dont think, this is the solution. It should never be a solution to combine VPIP and rakeback, simply because fun players dont understand and dont know what VPIP means and there should be no incentive to teach them those things nor automatically implement something like a hud in the game, so they actually know what VPIP they play. Rather the future lays in getting rid of huds (that seems to be the common opinion for most and I agree).
Actually there should be two things IMO:
1) Straight money cashback for playing like 15-30% (as on full tilt years ago). I always remember my father (who is a fun player and overall losing player) liking it alot to get small pieces back for playing in direct money.
Another example from my father: he never knew, that on the old stars system he needed to "buy" stellar awards or cash prizes, so he actually gets a little bit back and he really felt bad about it in a way, when I told him. He felt cheated by stars because he just wanted to play a bit and not dealing with those stuff.
2) Another rakeback-step for playing every day (like the old ironman on tilt), so you have incentive to play hands every day, but not to play 10 hours a day.
That aside the typical things like banning seat-scripts, minimize bumhunting, banning huds / most software and yada yada