WSEX: Official Monthly Thread: July. (#11 of 12.)

[WSEX GM]

Money is debited from your account the next business day as long as it is approved. (Rollover for sports bonus, verified ID) If you put the request in on a Friday after 8 AM, it won't be debited until Monday.

Fred

[Gullanian]

Also does wsex have a self exclusion option? Sometimes I would like a 2 or 3 day cooloff period. It would be good to enter the number of days to lock yourself out the account for.

[DCopper04]

many times when trying to view a HH immediately following the hand, i get an error message, and i am unable to view the HH. annoying.

[doublec]

Is it possible to have a faster way to reload back to the maximum buy-in? Currently when pressing the '$' it can take quite a while to appear, and even longer for the confirmation and the reload amount to be added to your stack. 2-3 hands can go by.

Also frustrating is I can't reload to the maximum if I try on the hand where the money was taken out. So if I'm on the small blind, I fold and then reload, it won't let me reload to the full buy in amount until the following hand.

I find the '2 free disconnections' a little disconcerting in ring games too. It appears that this means someone can intentionally disconnect instead of calling a large bet to have an 'all in' for the current amount in the pot occur. Or am I wrong?

I've also been disconnected during a hand, and 'sat out' as a result. I reconnect while the hand is still going but I don't seem to get a 'sit back in' button until the following hand is dealt.

Other than those issues, I like the site and hope more people play there.

[mjkidd]

I've been one of the biggest supporters of WPEX, and one of the most frequent players at the site. But with this change to 75% rakeback, I'm probably going to take most of my business to other sites. I'll keep some money on the site, because I have a feeling that what games there are going to be are going to be a bit softer, since you're about to have a mass exodus of 2+2ers from the site. I'd rather you get rid of aces never lose than decrease the rakeback.

You're giving money to affiliates? [censored]! Well, I guess I can't really complain, because 100% rakeback wasn't working. And it might actually be beneficial to the site, who knows. Thanks for the experiment in positive-sum poker, and I wish World Poker Exchange all the luck in the future.

[WSEX GM]

WSEX began the 100% rakeback program as a benefit to their sportsbook players and with the hopes that poker players would cross over and play at the WSEX sportsbook and casino. There was not enough cross-over and the costs of moving money have significantly increased since we started the program.

We still offer the highest unrestricted rakeback in the industry. Only now it is not costing us money every month. It also gives us room to bring in a couple of specialized marketing companies, if you know what I mean.

We really wanted it to work, but it just wasn't.

Fred Balfour
General Manager
WSEX.com

[mjkidd]

Yeah, I suppose I'm not really taking my "business" to other sites, since y'all were paying me to play at your site.

[Seether]

Here is what I was going to pm you but your box is full.

Hello, while I welcome the decrease in rakeback for increased advertising, do you think it is possible for a sliding scale for high rake players? Last week I paid 3900ish in rake, maybe at the 1500 level rb goes to 80% and at 3k it goes to 85% or something like that? I actively create games when I play as well as make sports bets to support the site. However, with the change in rake now playing in some of the tough 2 handed/3handed games will no longer really be worth the variance simply to create games. However I feel if something is done to keep the highest rake contributors (who would still contribute signifigantly more rake than others) game creation will still occur and it will motivate others to play more.

[donger]

How about you guys use the money to better your software? I can't be the only one who was driven away by the weird double holecards thing. Just make your software look and function more like every other poker site and i'm sure it will increase your playerbase.

[SomethingClever]

Going from 100% to 75% RB is a little disappointing in the short term, but encouraging for the long-term low rake model. Better than WSEX saying, "well, 100% isn't cutting it, we're closing shop."

Use that 25% wisely and grow the site, WSEX.

FWIW the site has been getting 100% of my play for a couple months.