10-09-2005, 10:34 AM
Lorinda made a great post in the STT forum, that with Party's player reward point for cash program, you can earn what is roughly the equivalent of 15% in rakeback.
Assume most of us get in the neighborhood of 25-30% in rakeback from our affiliates.
Assume further that the Party pool of players is at least marginally weaker than the pool who plays on its skins.
I play the $50+5s SNGs. If I forsake rakeback, it costs me 5x(.25-.15) or 50 cents more per SNG to play at Party vs. the Skins (or 75 cents more assuming a high %30 skin rakeback).
Since the Party/Skin breakup just happened, no one will have any meaningful sample sizes to quantify the difference in winrates at Party vs. the skins. I will, at least intuitively, conclude that an extra 50 cents per 50 dollar SNG (a 1% price increase) is worth playing against a pool of generally inferior players. What say you?
Assume most of us get in the neighborhood of 25-30% in rakeback from our affiliates.
Assume further that the Party pool of players is at least marginally weaker than the pool who plays on its skins.
I play the $50+5s SNGs. If I forsake rakeback, it costs me 5x(.25-.15) or 50 cents more per SNG to play at Party vs. the Skins (or 75 cents more assuming a high %30 skin rakeback).
Since the Party/Skin breakup just happened, no one will have any meaningful sample sizes to quantify the difference in winrates at Party vs. the skins. I will, at least intuitively, conclude that an extra 50 cents per 50 dollar SNG (a 1% price increase) is worth playing against a pool of generally inferior players. What say you?