This post is simply false and a weak attempt to push a misleading narrative from ACR associates.
Bottom line: if you’re a high-stakes player (or any stakes for that matter), recreational or pro, you’ll be best taken care of
@CoinPoker_OFF.
@ZarKeoZ even spoke to the Coin team and had the VIP rewards model explained to him, but conveniently leaves that part out.
@WPN_CEO, pretty weak jab from you and your team. I honestly thought you’d be above that but there we go.
The match being referenced is vs another pro. In that case, both players receive ~90% back. Thats ~1,5bb/100 netrake (not 20bb) - might be worth mentioning next time.
If it’s vs a recreational, the VIP gets a larger share to reduce loss rate and keep games running longer.
This is reviewed weekly to ensure VIPs are properly supported. Together with the Highstakes community.
Every high-stakes player also understands this. It’s the standard model across private and club games, where most of those games are running nowadays. There’s a reason public HS games rarely sustain themselves: VIPs get crushed too quickly.
How long would you stick around as a recreational stick with a -25bb</100 winrate? That’s basically never winning. They quit, and the games die.
Noone would play Blackjack with 10% houseedge. With 0,5% its one of the most popular games in the world.
VIPs are people & the most important part of the poker ecosystem - they wanna have a good experience.
As a game operator, you have to manage loss rates to keep the ecosystem alive. Focussing on the losing player is the single most important thing, while beeing fair to the winning players.
But its a zero sum game, if VIP lose little slower -> PROs win little slower. However they will stick around longer and games will stay alive.
I have been a Pro my whole life, but also have to agree that keeping the VIPs happy is the most important part.
@CoinPoker_OFF is really trying to build the best poker experience in the world & they have some of the sharpest minds working on this. If we want HS public games imo they are our only shot at this moment.
GG shut them down entitely 2 years ago (for reasons above, making them private) & ACR is too focused on stop Coin instead of working on their own product.
Coinpoker is probably the first poker room where a reg sits out and leaves against a recreational player because of the rake being so high.
The High-Stakes HU tables have become unbeatable or barely, and even their " special program " for regs battles is not competitive compared to what other sites offer.
Coinpoker doesn't have the lowest effective rake in the industry as they claim, and in reality have one of the highest.