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Posted by: Viscant at July 21, 2005, 11:19 am

Topic: Rumor: Interpoker to revist Raked Hand Requirement Forum: Bonus Whores

Nicodemus wrote: The real problem is that this community is comprised of a significant group of people who have little real poker skill and are whoring bonuses by playing minimum limits in order to reduce the risk of losing money while collecting bonuses, without actually having to use much poker theory to become winning players in their own right. It is fine for such players to exist and it is natural that they will take advantage of sweetheart bonuses - but the bottom line is that players like that cause poker sites to lose money on bonuses, and eventually those bonuses will be curtailed.

Very well said.
It's better that sites go this route of encouraging you to play higher stakes rather than go the Empire way of making bonuses 15x or the Multi way of 20x. That way it punishes everyone. The way people here especially are whoring bonuses, we're coming very near to killing the golden goose. Empire has lost so much money due to bonus whores, you've seen what they've done.
Wouldn't you rather sites go the Crypto way instead of the Empire way? There is more to poker other than .5/1 holdem after all. For a player like me who is fine with playing 3/6 and higher, the bonuses actually got better this month. I'd much rather things went this way and punished only the players who are taking money from the site instead of punishing people like me who are making positive MGR even after the bonus.

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