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Happy Days returns.........
Tomorrow, for 3 straight days.
It starts at 00.01 on Wednesday & runs through until 23.59 on Friday, so 72 hours of 2X Points on Cash Games & SNG's.
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I fear there is little point in debating this one, but The Don's perception of what happens in a Points Promo is flawed in my opinion. Very flawed.
Players don't move up or down the levels (buy-ins, stakes), they remain at their normal level, but play more games.
I can't think of a single reason why a player who usually plays, say, £22 or £55 SNG's would suddenly move down to £2.20 or £5.50 due to a Points Promo.
The logical likelihood is they would move UP not down.
IMO, of course.
like TK, I'm equally dubious about Don's claims - I'm not actually sure the games would get much tougher, probably a little, but not by a huge amount. But the actual main point of the post, i.e. who the promotions are targeted @, can't really be sniffed at imo, one only has to check out Unibet's apparent recent success to see that type of model can work quite well.
Also not saying Happy Days is a bad promotion, just wanted to show OP some love
I focus on £5 tdyms and when points promotions are on, I do notice more familiar names (as in the stars of this site) on those tables. That is especially the case when there is a points race type promotion taking place. Alot who are used to normal DYMs struggle with TDYMs however.
A wider issue is how to support the net depositers as this is a benefit to all. Perhaps a "deposit £xx, get a percentage back in tokens if you lose it" type offer would be good.
(I have no vested interest BTW having not been a net depositer since April 2015 - I was pretty shocking before then though! To be mercenary, more recs is more profitable than more rate back. Especially on the TDYMs where you can win without playing a hand if the rest of the players are wild enough!)
As QUICKFEET posted regs do "move down" the SNG BIs in double points, especially when a rake race is on, so I do see regs at 5 and even 3 who normally play bigger. I think some of that was also caused by MTT players looking to make priority, especially before the recent MTT schedule changes.
I can imagine a similar effect on cash, but not down to "micro" stakes so I suppose it does depend on your definition of "micro". According to the filters it's up to £1 SNGs on and up to 10NL.
I myself have got caught out pushing for a points level and losing at reg full £5 SNGs, I have learned my lesson there and tend to set less challenging targets.
However for the micro stakes, as above, double points are a great thing.
In terms of rewards/rake in general, I think the sites need to look after both the high volume regs and the micro stakes players. Poker sites need to make a profit or we lose them, so they need the grinders and they need recreational depositors.
We all need recreational depositors so anything that helps there then great. Crossover promotions from other parts of the site, the SKYBLUE promotions etc help all but are of most relative value to the micro recreational.
I think the changes to the Sky Poker Rewards do that very well with the £2.30 token for just 100 points and the freerolls.
If you assume there are broadly 3 types of players on the site.
1. Depositing low volume recs
2. Competent mid volume recs
3. High volume regs
It makes sense to rewards players in categories 1 and 3 more than 2 for the reasons outlined above.
Personally sometimes I just play enough to get 100pts, sometimes I push on to hit 500. Often I play on to 2-300 because at the end of the day I am just playing for fun and the rewards don't make a big difference to me and I am not going to stop the fun just to eek out a higher % rakeback. I do like saving tokens though.