Christ, now I have to post here too, thanks....
I remember you from this thread now. And I remember why I stopped posting here, so I'll keep this brief.
Long story short, POW made up a model with imaginary inputs to give an outcome that he already wanted in advance, then spent a weekend derailing
another thread with it.
Our aim is to spend (much) more on the lower end than any other site, about the same on the top end and less in the middle. This is to keep new and casual players alive for longer. This makes the games softer and stops them from failing. We spend as much money on our loyalty scheme as we ever did on MPN with a more traditional model. We spend more on overall promos than PS do, at least from when I last heard about their numbers (from an ex FP&A guy there, though I worked there for 7 years too).
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Game softness is relative, so is irrelevant when discussing what a healthy amount of money to be removed from games by the sites is.
Depends what you spend the money on, and we're spending it on keeping the games softer.
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Unibet does however have smaller skill gaps because they have taken away possible player edges by banning HUDs, making SNGs short-staked and fast, player anonymity, no hand tracking etc. This is great because bad players lose less money to good players
And also that we aim our promos and loyalty scheme at low end players. Which you don't seem to take into account at any point.
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I’m sorry but this is just rubbish. Even plugging in a player distribution into my model* with 85% of your players raking less than 50e
This shows just how little you know about site ecology. Significantly fewer than 15% of our players rake > €50 per month. This is going to be the case at PokerStars too.
And if anyone is wondering why I'm abrupt with POW it's because he keeps posting this stuff again and again even when I tell him about real world data. And these are data I shouldn't really reveal - it's commercially sensitive. He also then just says I'm lying and accuses me of constant dishonesty.
Your RB% numbers for our site are wrong at literally every point. It's so wrong that I can't even tell what you did to mess it up. So let's just leave it there shall we? I don't want to spend my working days refuting this stuff, it's a waste of my time and you aren't learning from what I'm posting anyway, you just plod on, ignoring it all.
Last edited by UnibetAndrew; 05-26-2015 at 01:54 PM.