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More sharks move than fish (many fish just stop playing). Higher percentage of sharks means tougher games. Unless somehow you think the sharks are magically going to ignore a soft table when it appears, and let you have the table all to yourself.

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Bingo.

The only way to keep games generally beatable is to have the shark to fish ratio offset a much as possible - reducing 12 tablers to 6 tabling halfs their impact across the player base. 4 tabling reduces it to a 3rd.

The future is a 4 table limit i think - though im unsure if any site has data on profitability in rake terms of a reduction in tables.

In other words a harder game overall might be aweful for the fish and really bad for the breakeven/small winning 'sharks' but the rake may increase per table if this happens. Maybe the opposite is true.

The argument has always been that the sites want cash to stay with the fish for as long as possible, but when one group of fish leaves, the next in line take their place.