Re: Why not WSEX?
The way i see it, my rake pays for (in order of importance):
1, Advertising which brings in fish
2, Good quality software/servers
3, Customer Support
Im probably missing a few smaller ones, but those are the big three reasons why rake is a good thing. The fact is WPEX was never as fishy as the big sites, and certainly not as fishy as some of the more fringe sites. Their software always came under scrutiny and they may have the greatest customer support in the entire planet but if they fail on 1 and 2, 3 is irrelivent. This is ignoring some people having issues depositing and withdrawing (i include this as 3, fwiw).
WPEX wasnt the first to try the rake free model and it probably wont be the last. But to this day no such site has succeeded because all of them failed in 2 or more of the catagories above.
Maybe a site will succeed with rakefree, i dunno, but for now i gladly pay my rake (minus my rakeback) because i know without it online poker would be MILES harder than it is now.
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