Re: Calling all UB players
From a business standpoint what they are doing makes perfect sense. The breakeven regulars are not the guys paying the most rake for UB - the ocean of fish pays the most rake. And from their perspective they would like to get this money before the better players at each level can take it. By offering BBJ tables the player pool splits, in that no smart/good player will play the BBJ tables because of the rake - so the fish congregate there and trade money. As this is going on not only does UB increase the # of raked hands, it also increases the expected rake per hand. This situation should even out as soon as the BBJ tables become so fishy that it is +EV for a good player to play in these games at the higher rake level.
Petitioning probably won't get too much done, even if a decent # of uNL regulars sign UB simply shouldn't care. The fish aren't reading this and will continue to play at UB, and at some point the games will get so easy that various 2+2ers will head back.
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