It's so easy technically to give us a choice of table, card and background colours - I cannot for the life of me understand why this wasn't in the first release of the new software.
I suspect that Party's marketers are in control and the Poker managers come a long way down the decision making tree. The conversation is easy to imagine:
"This year, darling, it has to be orange! Large fonts are just outré ... so 1990s. What we have to do is guard our brand image - create brand value - become
the poker brand, we can't let players change our brand colour scheme to suit themselves! They will then forget the energy and rebirth associations that orange signifies. Worse, they might choose colors that work badly - yellow ochre and nightshade pearlescent green just won't do!"
Peru
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Originally Posted by Geefmede5
Rake is for winners. Practically, losers don't pay rake. If I win a pot, I get the dollars minus the %rake. The loser wasn't getting anything anyways..
With all respect: your story isn't too accurate imo.
1) Rake is not 5% everywhere. Rake is like 2% at higher limits. There is rakeback at iPoker. Pokerstars (and others) have VIP systems that provides rb. So the actual percentages differ per client and stake.
2) You can win more by playing good poker... more than what..? More than playing bad poker? More than paying rake? You CAN win more by paying less rake. Just saying..
3) Rakeback is for everybody. And a break even player could be a winning player when paying less rake.
But I do get your point sort of.. Don't focus on side things, just focus on quality which I agree with.
doh - after everything we've written on these forums people still don't get rake. Start
here and read the article series and you'll start to understand it.