Seems like this is a catch 22 to me.
The site wants to protect recs? Regs want to exploit Recs to the fullest.
At the end of the day poker is a hustlers game.
If you want to make everyone happy here is what you do.
Have Beginner tables with a fairly high rake. You can only join these tables when you are a new player and have played lets say less than 50,000 hands as an example. It'll be microstakes obviously, so it doesn't matter if Joe Blow from home game 101 wants to deposit 100 dollars or a 100,000 dollars on the site. Hes gonna be stuck play .02 and .05 cents or whatever stakes sounds good to you guys with a high rake until he completes a certain amount of hours or a certain amount of hands. Make it fun obviously. "With all the perks of anonymous screen name and no huds and blah blah blah"
This ensures new players don't get exploited by the regs off the hop, they only get exploited by the high rake that they aren't even aware of yet.
This also encourages more deposits from these players because they have a higher chance of winning against fellow amateurs.
The downside to this is for the regs. They aren't going to be getting the action they want from these noobs but to compensate, lower the rake
after the beginner phase is over. Lower it substantially. Also allow all the toys you kids use and **** like that.
Its all a matter of false confidence. At the end of the day the goal is to lure new players in and make them lifetime catalysts on the site.
Once they've played 50,000 hands against other amateurs they're already going to be hooked. And they'll keep depositing into infinity when they are finally let out of the stable to be the ultimate donkey on the ranch.
Most of us all started playing in a home game. Give new players that home game atmosphere at first. And charge a high rake for it.
Then let them loose to the rest of us and let us take their money on lower rake tables.
I feel like that would be what they call maximizing the lead.
Last edited by TheBiggestDonkey; 06-08-2018 at 06:57 PM.