Originally Posted by biondino

I guess the casino is still an option, but not nearly as attractive a one - you have to do it on top of playing poker and, obviously, you have to take into account the house's vigorish.

I think it is just Interpoker. I can't go back to Hills because I don't have rakeback there, but I guess I could try another skin.

Are there any other good sites that offer PT support and £ tables?

Originally Posted by drtofu66

You might consider emailing your RB affiliate that you won't be playing IP anymore. Maybe the affiliates as a group might have more of an influence if they yell loud enough. But really, did anyone really look forward to the changes IP had in mind when they announced that "Now your bonus will be even easier to clear" or some such nonsense? I cringed inwardly when I read that-- and I don't even play IP.

Originally Posted by biondino

Here's my email to their help desk:

"I would very much appreciate and honest explanation of why you have changed your monthly match bonus clearing requirements.

I play at £25NL-$100NL at your site, 5-10,000 hands a month which brings in thousands of pounds of rake over the year. All of a sudden I am not able to claim your excellent bonus, not because I don't pay enough rake (indeed, because of your 1/4 MPP system for small pots, I have to play even more hands and pay even more rake than the higher limits to clear the bonus), but because I don't play for substantial sums of money. And now, of course, even if I do improve enough to play $200NL upwards, it won't be at your site.

I sincerely hope you realise the strength of feeling among your lower stakes players over this, and realise quite what a hit your bottom line will take when thousands of us go elsewhere. It's not just the money, of course - a smaller network like Crypto needs a critical player mass to seem appealing to players considering joining, and they're not going to be impressed when your user base falls by a third or more!

It seems to me that you are cutting off your nose to spite your face. You make a lot of money off me - not as much as if I were playing $1000NL but your chancge of policy isn't suddenly going to make me move up stakes. I, and hundreds of others, will leave Interpoker as a result of this unbelieveably short-sighted decision - we may only be small stakes players, but where do you think the next generation of high rollers is going to come from?

I would appreciate a personal response rather than a stock reply that doesn't actually explain anything. I hope my loyal custom over the past year makes me deserve at least that courtesy.

Best,
Mark

p.s. the icing on the cake is the way your mailouts have said with the utmost hypocrisy "you're going to love our new match bonus clearing rates". You didn't really think that through, did you?"

Originally Posted by midas06

if by 'great' you mean 'has massive rake and will eat up my winrate more than monster' then yes, great great limit games

Originally Posted by Miffed22001

did they change it? It was ok when i was playing there. Uncapped streets HU also helped.