Re: Another idea how pokersites could keep players interested
I think there are a few problems with this.
The first is that the players with the highest rankings would be the ones earning gobs of money and if they could achieve any increase in earn by moving to another site, even a small percentage increase would actually be a large amount of money and they would move and not care about the leader board.
Secondly, lots of the biggest winners would probably not want it to be known just how well they were doing as this would deter people from trying to play with them, and possibly cause people to take shots at them just so they could be like, "I bluffed xxxx, that guy from the leader board" to all their chums. Not that this would necessarily be -EV if one adapted properly, but I can definitely envisage people being against the idea.
Thirdly, there's all the losers, when they suddenly realise that money is coming out of the game at quite a constant rate by these players, they might actually start realising it has to come from somewhere and start thinking more carefully about whether they're just stupid fish being fed off by winning players. It could certainly lead to them either quitting (bad for the site) or getting better (bad for us).
If you had a bottom 10%, this would basically just consistently eliminate about 9.5% of the players on your site every time you updated it.
Overall, I think it's a pretty bad idea.
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