Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe-exotic69
taxing winning players is a huge scam that benefit only dirty agents. It's not like your giving back the tax to the losing players. Unions just keep the money for themselves, scummy af.
Buying an winning players action is different of course since the agent is assuming some risk at least.
in regards to this i have to disagree quite abit with it and what was said before.
clubs and unions are pretty much independant entities and they can set rules as they please. this is an entirely free market and you can choose yourself if you wanna play under those stipulations or if you want to stay away.
the main pokerbros unions have managed in pretty spectacular form what almost any app failed to do before: offer very good & fair games over long period of time.
guys who win several 10k each month are terrible for the clubs/unions bc they will bust whales in lightning speed, make games ****, decrease traffic.
so you have a couple of choices as a union:
1. do nothing = games will go to ****, traffic will go down
2. ban big winners = more and more strong regs wont be allowed to play
3. increase earnings by taking a cut of big winners
of all those 3 options number 3 is probably the preferable one for players and site alike. The big unions doing a pretty damn good job of running things compared to almost any other app. there is a reason for this extreme hype about this one app lately.
also the winning tax/action stuff is usually directly related to your agent. if your agent has only regs and will only bring winning players to the site the value of this agent for the site is very low so if they even allow him to bring players they want to earn for it.
if your agent has mostly fish and the odd whale he's incredibly valuable for the union/clubs and there will most likely not be any action/winning tax charged
overall i think this is all fairly logical and far from being scummy or dirty. it's simple business 101