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Message: [QUOTE="x2486, post: 1569977, member: 72408"] Your orginal thread seemed to be saying that the negative effect on sites was somehow related to people playing with real money that they had not deposited from their own bank. I don't think this is a problem at all. The web site makes its money through the rake, which it only collects if there are active players. More players = More rake. If I sell play money to fund my account and use that to play in real money games, the web site still profits. I'm not sure about Pooffy's suggestion that the play money sellers are the problem either. If they're playing like idiots then they will be losing and won't have any play money to sell. I don't think the buyers are the problem either because I can't imagine that many people willing to pay money just to cause grief. I think the problem is probably players who are good enough to build a huge bankroll so that they don't really care about the money. They may enter a game and spew money just for the lulz if they can tilt a few players on the way. The reason the web sites don't want this is that it drives away players who might become real money players some day. But by stealing people's play money, they've probably already driven most of those away. I think a better solution than limiting account size would be to make the play money "worth" more. The simplest way would be for the web site to buy it directly for a few $ per million. This would inject more real money players into the system and increase their rake. Or they could have play money tournaments for shopping credits or entries into freerolls. Anything would probably be better than what they did. [/QUOTE]

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