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Old 12-10-2005, 06:16 PM
Mr. Curious Mr. Curious is offline
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Default Re: Party Poker Shortstack Abuse

There are two fundamental problems with your letter:

#1 It sounds like you are whining about short stack players

#2 You are not focusing on the one way to ensure that Party makes a change: lost revenue


Your letter should go along the lines of:

Party Poker,

Myself and other high stakes no limit players would like to point out a problem that is costing you revenue and could lead to you losing most of your players.

The problem is that people are not forced to re-enter a game with the same size stack that they just left the same game with. The biggest abusers of this problem are people who buy in for the minimum and once they double up, they immediately leave and then re-enter the game for the minimum again. This causes many other players not to play with them, decreasing the size of the pot and the amount of money that you can rake. Since many other poker websites dissallow this type of behavior, many of the high stakes players are leaving party and going elswhere.

We can think of three solutions to this problem:

#1 Doubling or tripling the minimum buy-in. This would remove the short stack people's ability to do their "all-in over the top" move and ensure that other players would be willing to play with them.

#2 Force people who leave a game to re-enter the game with the same size stack that they left with. You could expand this to include a time out where if the person does not wish to re-enter the game with that many chips, they are forced to wait an hour before they can re-enter.

#3 Make the buy-in a fixed amount.

Thank you for taking the time to consider this problem.

Sincerely,
Non Short Stack Players
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