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Originally Posted by lvcjarrett
Winning players and 20 tablers generate a lot more rake(obviosuly)...the move is mind bottling from Merge's POV IMO.
What am I not seeing?
Winning players also cashout more, which, as the speculation goes costs the sites a lot of money to service. There's also the possibility that squeezing out winning regs allows the sites to rake more in the long run because breakeven players will just trade the same pool of funds around, with the sites raking a little bit off over time. If players are cashing out, those funds will never be 'raked' in some sense.
I won't calim to know the details behind these theories or whether they make good business sense, but the trend is obviously going in this direction, unfortunately.