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Originally Posted by Soepgroente
You can disagree with it, but it's not unfair. This is standard practice, clear in the payouts and there's nothing sneaky going on. You can choose not to register if you don't like it.
You're misrepresenting my argument. I'm not claiming they're doing anything "sneaky" or are unclear in their payout policy. What, in my opinion, is unfair is their practice to award part of prize-pool as tickets. And part of that, which is really unfair, is that they're effectively taking part of that €150 ticket (rake), and it is never spread to players. I don't think "others do it so it's ok" logic is valid.
The only players that are benefiting from this are €150 tournament regs, who never play those €5, €10 MTT's.
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I also find it hard to imagine anyone who is +EV in a 20€ tournament isn't +EV in the weekly 150€, and people who aren't even +EV in the 5€ tournaments will likely get excited by the opportunity to play a 150€ buyin.
The €150 Main Event is a flighted tournament with a pretty low guarantee, so it's not hard to imagine how a low stakes player can be -EV in it. When you're playing your normal session of 9-12 tables and have to split your decisions to 2 completely different player pools it can get even more -EV.
The €5 player, who is excited by the opportunity to play a 150€ buy-in, can still buy-in into it with 150€ cash AND also have the option to play other tournaments, cash, spin and go's, do sports betting or cash it out if he wants to.
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I'm also fairly confident in winamax that if this happens to someone and they're really upset about it (e.g. they're new to the site and didn't know) then support will help them out one time.
But why only one time? I don't think anyone would have a problem with this practice if winamax agreed to exchange these tickets to lower value ones, if player asked for it. However they stopped doing this.
I understand that winamax wants to promote it's main event, but i don't think it has to come with a price of making some of their players unhappy.
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Originally Posted by blakkman08
+1 don’t bash the good guys for getting everything right please
Don't get me wrong, i love playing on winamax, but i think this issue shows that not everything is right and there is room for improvement.