I expected a lot of things getting worse when I heard Stars wants to change the rakeback program.
Well it got even worse than i thought it could be .
As a Hyper Turbo Sit and Go Player around 30% of my profit is made by Rakeback. So todays update hit me very hard.
Instead of the VIP Steps , you now have to complete progress to a reward chest ... so far everything seems to be the same . Well it is not . instead of haveing fixed reward you now get a chest with a random reward .
There is already a lot of variance at Poker. Do they really think it s good to add variance to rakeback too ? I don t think so but well.
I played a few games so far and generated around 15$ of rake . That gave me the chance to open 4 chests ... Yey ! There is nothing better than wasting my time opening chests ...
Here is the last chest I opened:
Yeah it does look good. looks like this chest is worth a lot :D
I had to pay 5.6$ rake to be able to open this chest ... so lets see what we got there :D
0.1$ Tourney Money and 11 Starcoins + a little boost for the next chest ( close to worthless )
so lets say we got about 0.22$ there ... thats 4.5% Rakeback ... really ? I really can t think about any site that has a worth Rakeback ...In total I got 0.48$ out of the 4 chests... that ends up at 3% Rakeback ... really sucks.
So what are my options ?
A) Keep playing at Pokerstars and accept to earn 30% less by playing Poker
B) Switch to a other site with lower traffic , play less games -> also less Profit.
I ll for sure choose B because I dont want Pokerstars to earn my rake , they are just to greedy.
Maybe it doesn t hurt them , I only pay around 100$ rake daily ... but I really don t want to support this.
Someone else already has experience with the new reward System ? how much % RB did you end with ? maybe I have been just unlucky with the chest.
