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Originally Posted by limon
I have suggested something like this to casino marketing departments many times over the years. Marketing/ bonus from casinos is always completely wrong. because they dont play poker they always give bonuses and comps for VOLUME. This is 100% wrong. You should give bonuses and comps for BAD/POOR PLAY. The players who put in the most volume are the players the casino wants LEAST. They are bot grinders taking from the system. The casino is taking the rake of the losing players who keep the grinders in action and giving it to the grinders who are destroying them through comps/promotions!!!!! This makes all the games worse and the casino to actually make LESS RAKE.
Comps and promotions should be set up so that only BAD PLAYERS get them, then the rake of the parasites on the system is going to the players who actually keep them in action. This is the proper way comps are supposed to work. The casino should constantly be giving out what amounts to medium size (not too big) jackpots for POOR PLAY. Example: A $5000 jackpot for making a 7 high straight flush or smaller. Nearly all of these small jackpots won every day will be won by FISH! pros are unlikely to play these little cards and go all the way with them. Im sur there are better ideas, this just popped into my mind. What would you propose to reward bad play??
Years ago, and I pit this in my
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I told a poker room manager that he should find the 10 worse players in town and give them all the promotional money with the stipulation that they have to play until they're broke.
More realistically, what this means, as Limon also points out, is that poker room promotions should be designed to make it more likely that a poor player will get the money. An similar example to what Limon gives is to give a prize for a straight-flush wheel rather than a royal flush.
Mason