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my hope would be that we will be able to negotiate for 120k hands over a 4 month period

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For the life of me, I can not understand why you would need to place a time restriction on something like this, other then it must be complete X amount of days before the WSOP etc.. 120k hands worth of rake = 120k hands worth or rake whether played over 10 nights or 10 months.

Suppose a poker room was willing to send any players to the WSOP that would play 120k hands. In my opinion, it would be best for that poker room to offer this challenge as soon as possible for at least 2 strong reasons. 1) Without a sickening time limit, many dozens more players will initially attempt this challenge and then not follow through. Thats a lot of extra traffic = extra buzz = extra incentive for even more people to move to that room = extra profit . 2) Offering this deal before any other room does would "lock in" a large player base that already has X,000 hands vested and won't move to the competitors room. 3)

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These are all true. I hope that when the negotiating process occurs, it ends up that we have a full year or ten months to play our hands for next years WSOP. I will give it a shot if its 4 months, but am not sure I can get that done.

Some might say, "but 120K hands in a YEAR is nothing, why would the site care?" The reason is that the 120K hands we might all play anyway are now consolidated. Which is why this will be most appealing to smaller sites, or those which are a part of a skin network and want to attract loyal customers.