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I think the important benefit to Stars of lowering the rake is that it drives pros up to the next level. The lower level STTs are the bread and butter game, and they are where new players turn to first. If they are filled with multi-tabling TAGs, those players get wiped out more quickly. By making the higher buy in STTs more competitive rake wise, Stars improves the quality of the lower buy in games for their casual players. The total cost isn't as high because there will always be a relatively low number of higher buy in games as compared to lower limits.

Some day this will become like the airlines, and being like Southwest, the first to jump in with consistently low costs, will pay dividends down the road.