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

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My suggestions:

1. Seriously look into decreasing the rake, especially when games get short-handed. The rake per person at a full ring 3-6 game is about 2 BBs/c ($12 per 100 hands). The rake per person at a 6-max 3-6 game is 2.5 BBs/c ($15 per 100 hands). So we're talking about a 25% increase, which is very significant.

2. AAs never lose - your best promotion and where you're investing a lot of money... automate it! Players, especially casual ones, do not want to be bothered to find the hand number, write an Email, and wait for a response. It's also a waste of your resources to manually check the hand ID and credit users' accounts. This may not seem like such a big deal, but believe me, it's huge. Consider this:

Today: someone gets AA cracked... half the table doesn't even notice... user grabs a pen to scribble the hand #, etc... yawn

Future: someone gets AA cracked... big bolded red text in the dealer box saying, "Player xxx just won $xxx because AAs never lose today at wpex!". Now there's a buzz... people notice... people want to play, especially on AA never lose days. Newbies are intrigued... buzz... this is marketing 101.

3. HUDs - I think you're swimming upsteam on this issue, but creating two types of rooms is an awful solution.

4. Tiering the rakeback by FPPs earned, as suggested earlier in this thread, is a great idea. You need core players, and this would be a great way to reward them... something like a sliding scale from 75% to 85%.