Re: Party had no choice
Does Party Poker really want multitabling sharks gobbling their "fish" that much? Isn't the next step cutting down the amount of rakeback/affiliate rate to reduce the number of sharks? Since Party just cut out all the skins aren't you affiliates next on the chopping block? After all, you bring in sharks not fish and it looks like Party is trying to cut down the benefits given to sharks since they go where the fish are anyway. Being cynical I have to believe Party will try to recruit all the fish it can with advertising and raise the rake and pay the high limit volume players with somesort of direct rakeback with the extra income from the rake cap hike.
Review of events:
1. Party Poker attempts to suppress rakeback at their site.(We don't need large volume sharks, hurts affiliates since they lose clients)
2. Party basically removes itself from the Party network. (We don't need the large volume sharks that moved to the skins to get rakeback)
It looks to me like the next step is
3. Forces the large volume sharks to pay above market rake for access to their "fish". (The high volume shark needs Party a lot more than Party needs you.)
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