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Aleister Crowley
Okay, here's my 2 cents worth on the poker…
I will qualify what i'm about to say by first saying that I understand there's the social element to being in the poker rooms, and people play for fun and for that social element.
Having said that, for anyone who enjoys an actual genuine good game of poker, the achat poker is, frankly, a bit pointless. This is because in 'play money' poker, there is no incentive to play 'sensibly', as it were. Which means that some players will just shove all their chips in with any two crappy cards, what the hell, it's not real money, so who cares. Which is fine as far as it goes. Except that it makes for a crap poker game, it ain't real poker, folks.
So I could see a couple of alternatives. The first would be to have some actual 'real money' tables. By this I don't mean actual hard cash, but A$. The stakes could be low and there would be a limit on the amount you could start at the table with, so it would still be more or less a 'fun' game rather than you're going to lose your house if the cards don't go your way – but nevertheless, you would still be losing 'real' A$ if you lost, and therefore, there is an incentive to play accordingly.
A second alternative would be for it still to just be 'play' money, but there would be a limit of some kind to how many chips you got to play with in a given time period, e.g. no more than 5 x 1000 chips in any 24 hour period… or once you lose all your chips, you can't get back on the table for an hour… or something.
Either or both of these could run in parallel with the purely 'fun' tables, so that those people who want to play just entirely for fun can also still do so, but those who enjoy a slightly more serious game could also do so.
I spent a bit of time in the poker rooms when the new achat was released, but I got kinda bored of it pretty quickly for the reasons stated, and haven't really been back since. So my only suggestion to add to the list would be, keep the purely for fun tables by all means, but give us some 'incentivised' tables too, for those of us who like a good game of poker!
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