No expert ; But $11 Mtts are raked at $1 [ 4.72 % ? ] and totals more than a 2nd place finish. Should we hold our concerns till the rake totals more than 1stOk so doing the math on hypers it's meaningless even for a $11 hyper mtt.
Curent rake is 4.72%, so people pay $11 to entry and 10.48 will go into the tournament prizepool. With a increase to 5% rake goes up to 0.55 from 0.52 and people still pay $11 but only 10.45 goes into prizepool of the mtt. For a total of 1000 players in a mtt the prizepool of a hyper mtt will go down from $10480 to $10450. So not a really huge deal.
In this case if first place takes 20% of the prizepool his prize goes down from $2096 to $2090
Hyper turbos are raked lower, and is compared to buy-in not the place finished.No expert ; But $11 Mtts are raked at $1 [ 4.72 % ? ] and totals more than a 2nd place finish. Should we hold our concerns till the rake totals more than 1st
I do not agree with your point of view, they are not going to turn back, unfortunately. That a company like PS leader in the market reversing your decision is not something that simply happens, all of its decisions are disallowed in the future. So the change came to stay, they have already analyzed the consequences. And as always, they take out those who have less. I just hope that the increase is not significant.It only affects buy in of $20 an below so this a test by them of what they can get away it. If it backfires as I hope it will they will revert back quickly.
They have not sent any official communication or set any price on how much it is going up by. It currently at 10% as is ACR and Party. If it goes up to 12.5% it probably would not be an issue. But if it is above that I think it will effect traffic negatively.
Once Party and ACR remain at 10% we as players have the power determine the outcome. I don't want to leave Stars but I will not pay absorbant fees when I can get the same game elsewhere for much less.
Anyone catch everybody's favortie player D Negs trying to rationalize the new changes for his employers. His logic sounds good but makes zero sense whatsoever. In their logic less players mean more rake which is fundametally flawed. He just made a speaking because he has to it is his job.
I know their thinking behind it though they are betting on their traffic not dropping enough to affect revenue plus with less players they have less tables and less strain on their resources like servers.
Interesting to see what happens it is a real test of market power that is about to occur. Will Stars be forced back down to 10% because of drop in traffic or will their competitors raise their rakes as well. Does Stars even care about a drop in traffic?
Just got to wait to see how this all plays out. I for one will not be paying 15% rake for a micro to low MTT when other rooms are at 10%.
It would take an insane rake raise to send the rec players to another site.The only way to combat these changes is stop playing on the site and play elsewhere.
New rake is 12% for MTT $20 and under so increase by 2 %.
They have not increased buy in amount so everything remains same price wise they adjusted the contribution to the prize pool.
Example $2.20 tourney is $2 the prize pool and $0.20 to rake. It will still be $2.20 to enter but $1.96 to prize pool and $0.24 to rake.
I guess it's how you look at it, a 2% total increase is a 20% increase in rake from the previous amount of 10%.
It sounds pretty significant when you think of it as a 20% increase.
A rec player won't even notice the difference.Yes 20% increase is a lot, lets see how the community takes this.