[bustedromo]

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wow, OP.

lets say you own a bar. and you give someone a drink "on the house". The drink is not free. The money dosnt come off a tree. It comes out of the Bar's pocket.

Well, here, FT is taking $500 and instead of giving it to their software development team, they put it into the prize pool so that a pro can freroll it. The only difference is the pro got "staked". Is this is crazy? Do you bitch and whine about Stars letting Hachem freroll any event he wants at the WSOP?

Get a life man.

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You just dug your own hole with your example. Here's why:

I own a bar. For my livelihood I depend on the bar being profitable. Therefore, I depend on my customers. Most profitable bars depend heavily on repeat customers.

Let's say I start giving free drinks to certain repeat customers, each and every visit, each and every drink. Pretty soon, these guys are showing up every night and having a blast. Also pretty soon word gets around that certain customers are favorites.

Probably some people figure that since I sure seem to like them and appreciate their patronage that therefore they should also be included on the list of favorites. I tell them that the A List is for customers that bring a lot of business into my bar. They respond that they're the life of the party, they have good bar jokes and tales, they often bring along friends, those friends become customers, those friends have friends, they spread the word wherever they go, etc., etc.

It's hard to turn a lot of these people down, because they have very good arguments, but I have to say no, otherwise I go out of business.

As time goes on, more and more people become aware of the situation. The outs become very resentful of the ins, and of me. They start wondering "Why aren't I good enough for favorite treatment? What does that A List guy have that I don't?". And eventually they shift their business to some other bar that doesn't make them feel 2nd class.

That's the basic social-economics of operating a customer oriented business where all customers should be of roughly equal value because they all purchase the same commodity.