Could Someone please explain the whole party skins thing

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I play sng's on Party and have noticed alot of threads referring to Party poker and skins. What are skins?? I know the site has recently been updated, but what are the changes that have caused all this concern. I never been concerned about rakeback
and I know this might be quite naive. All the best and thanks for the feedback

[radar5]

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I play sng's on Party and have noticed alot of threads referring to Party poker and skins. What are skins?? I know the site has recently been updated, but what are the changes that have caused all this concern. I never been concerned about rakeback
and I know this might be quite naive. All the best and thanks for the feedback

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This tells us that the changes do not affect you.

[MelK]

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What are skins??

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Skins are costumes we put on to change our attitude as we play poker. When I'm a pirate, I crush the games. Arrrrrrrrgh.

[radar5]

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What are skins??

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Skins are costumes we put on to change our attitude as we play poker. When I'm a pirate, I crush the games. Arrrrrrrrgh.

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I prefer to be a Jedi Knight

If you were intrested in rakeback, you would have probably signed up on a skin. The skins let you into the same games until last Saturday. Since you play at party anyway, you probably noticed eaiser games or nothing at all.

[CountDuckula]

Now for a serious answer:

A skin is another site that hooks into the same network; think of it like different doors into a casino. Assume each side door has a doorman who gets a cut of the action of each player that passes through his door, giving him incentive to try to pull players in through it any way he can. Those who pass through the main door give all of their action to the casino, rather than having the casino and the doorman share it.

Until this past weekend, Party had a few skins; Empire, PokerNow, Eurobet, etc. The upheaval was that Party cut itself off from the network the skins are on, and created a new one just for itself. This mostly affects you if you play on the other skins, instead of just Party; Party now has only the players who log on via Party itself, and not those who logged on via Empire or whatever. Since Party is the biggest advertiser, the majority of players who played on the Party network were actually logged in via Party.

Basically, I think Party got tired of hearing about all the deals that you could get on other skins (the doormen were giving kickbacks to the players to entice them to come through their door instead of the main door) and losing players to them (players shopping around for deals might already have an account on Party, but abandon it in favor of a skin that offered them something better), and decided to cut them off. IOW, they opened up another casino upstairs, and connected only the main door to that casino, leaving the downstairs to the doormen and their share of the players.

-Mike

Very nice analogy in response to OP question.