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Originally Posted by badazzss
i'd like to know how that's bad for business -?-
i would love to know the business logic behind the restriction.
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Originally Posted by Tropics
Regarding the 4 table restriction-- Just speculation, but having seen other 'real life' businesses make the same error I wonder if what's going on is something like this: Merge sees that Bovada is doing very well while only letting players sit at 4 tables, so someone at Merge suggests they start doing the same thing, particularly to the winning players, and somehow magically their numbers will start to look more like Bovada's. It's not uncommon for some out-of-touch exec to copy a policy from one of his competitors without understanding the underlying basis for the policy, and then hoping for magic to happen.
^you're over-thinking it. IMO it's pretty simple:
Merge combined two pool of players. to generalize each pool: one is players who lose money playing poker, the other is players who win money playing poker.
as a business Merge wants two things regarding the "losing" pool of players. 1-lose their money money playing poker as slowly as possible so 2-they can lose their money betting sports and playing casino games.
when losing players lose playing poker where does the money go? to winning players->Cashout->ATM->titties. never back on the site.
"how can we make sure these winning players, who we are about to give a whole bunch of fish to, don't take all the fishes' money before they lose it to us?"
table cap.
EDIT: that's for cash games. probably the same logic was applied to MTTs but that makes no sense to me.
Last edited by DrawNone; 04-26-2014 at 11:03 PM.