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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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It should be pretty clear. If the losing players get better, they will lose fewer bets per hand to the winning players... but the rake per 100 hands does not change (much, there probably is a slight dip as rake thresholds are hit less often), so a bigger percentage of money from the available pool goes to the house.

This is devioushly clever of them. Every player that goes from being a 60% VPIP player to a 40% VPIP player will make the house more money, as the winning players start winning less.


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More importantly, every Poker Rewards player that takes money from other Prima players and thus plays more hands than they would have makes them more money at the expense of the other skins.