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Originally Posted by jaimestaples
15% rake reduction at mtts $55 and up seems around what we should shoot for (54, 108, 213 etc.) Awice and doggz are right though. We have no leverage, and their is no reason stars would want professional players to win money faster. I bet In terms of bottom line, its actually more beneficial to them the other way.
Being heard is the first step though
IDK about you, but last year I paid around 25k in rake to stars, thus they made around 17-18k off of me.
This year I will only end up paying around 8-10k in rake to stars. (making around 6-7k off of me)
One of the ways stars can make back the 10-12k they are losing from my business this year is to have a more competitive rake structure.
I used to play the 109t+ daily, but as their rake is just too high and their fields are fairly tough, and I have many other options for good value games, I have no reason to play them anymore daily, and instead only play the 109t on sunday+ TCOOP Events.
(for 109t's+ im only losing to rake, if they were raked "normally" i would be up money in them)
I have around 5-10k in leverage myself, I'm sure many of you guys have much more leverage.
I'd be perfectly happy if they only lowered the turbo rake on 27's+
Edit: The rake suggestions I gave was based on their "own" rake structures for regs/hypers. I gave a fairly logical suggestion based on their structures for other games. TBH I think reg speed rake should be like 7-8%, turbo should be 2-3%, and hyper should be 1%. But stars would never do that at this point in the industry. Having their rake for turbos be based on their OWN rake structure for others games is not only logical, it is reasonable as well. It will also increase the sizes in the games, bringing value to their fields, and encouraging more regs to play there.
Last edited by Protential; 01-17-2013 at 08:22 AM.