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Message: [QUOTE="or3o1990, post: 2810081, member: 113762"] I don't know for sure because I have never played in any of those locations but I think you're a little off with your first response. It may be true that those cities are built on losing players but from what I hear Macao's high stakes players are mostly all pro's and the same is relatively true of Las Vegas. I hear a lot of people say how much tougher even the mid stakes games are in Vegas as compared to the Commerce in L.A. for example, I've heard nothing about Monaco.. I'm more wondering what would happen mathematically and how it's bad for their bottom line. As far as the rakeback goes I agree 100%. It never made a whole lot of sense to me to give all of the best winning players the most rewards. However, that's poor judgement on Pokerstars' part not the winning players that took advantage of the rewards program. I agree with doing away with it but not how they're doing it or how they're accusing those players instead whoever put that program in place of being bad for their site's economy. I can understand why they feel threatened by people having an edge but I don't understand what realistically can be done about it or if it's even a good thing given the nature of the game. If you for example took the top 9 cash game players in the world and put them on one table and 9 worst and put them on another the result would be relatively similar and essentially what they desire. No one would have an edge so in the long term no one would win or loose and the money would just spin around endlessly accumulating rake for the house. This is the perfect scenario for site operators or casino's because at this point no one can even beat the rake and you may as well be playing craps. I think it more likely that what they really want is another game that no one can win at. But since that may be impossible they'll try to make changes so that people will ultimately win less. The next best thing as far as they can see. I don't see loosing players quitting poker because people still play every other game at a casino knowing damn well that they can not win. Some of those people realize they have a problem and quit but many continue just for the entertainment, what makes poker so different? [/QUOTE]

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