[Banzai]

In my eyes, the biggest single problem at WPEX is player numbers.

I have an idea which might be viable but might be complete nuts. As mentioned already by myself and others getting rid of the $50 freerolls saves a load of cash (6 x 50 x 365 = $109,500). The players in these freeolls are very unlikely to be big rake players and are therefore contributing to your overheads.

Now Fred, if you have access to that cash in 1 go why not distribute it to a number of dormant accounts as a non (perhaps never?) withdrawable "bonus"?

The money could be, for example $50 for 2190 players which must be claimed and played on a particular day. Hopefully this day would see traffic like never before and the effect might snowball. In fact assuming only a 50% takeup you could offer it to 3 or 4000 accounts at the same time.

Anyone who failed to claim their "bonus" misses out and it could be offered to another account the following week or month or whatever.

I guess you could select accounts from your records which were identified as historically being at the best stakes / number of hands played etc. etc.

I know what I would be doing on a particular Thursday night if I got an email from a poker room telling me there was $50 in my account that needed playing that night.

I think it would be prudent to either restict the bonus to certain stakes LHE tables or include a T+C that x hands would need to be played before withdrawing any winnings over the free $50.


Let the flaming begin............