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I already wrote these guys an e-mail.

Why would a poker room encourage players to fold?
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How will this improve their amount of rake?

Pure genius.

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By evening out th eplaying field money moves around much more.
Since they take a rake each time it is in their interest for the players to be as equal as possible.

In the ideal world, they would love all the players to be exactly the same level. In that case the money just gets passed around with the rake eventually eating up all the money.