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poker rake back needs a big change
BERNIE
Member Posts: 10
rake back on nearly all sites is 25 -30% on sky it is no where near the site needs to catch up on other ,sites /competitors rake back should be be paid back monthly points are ludicrous.over £100 raked per month should be 30% rake back come on sky give a little back stop been greedy.
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Sky Poker reward their players vis a system specifically geared to suit the target market in which they operate. It appears to work well, all things considered.
"Rakeback" is Promotional Spend, however you label it, & Sky Poker's Promotional Spend is, in % terms, as big, if not bigger, as any Online Room, & we have several USP's of which we are proud.
As I'm sure you are aware, the world's biggest, & most successful Site, do not offer any Rakeback at all, nor do they need to.
It was interesting to chat with you during my "Take-On-Tikay" session last night, during which I do my best to field everyone's questions. With due respect, however, you did not endear yourself to me or others with your constant reference to the "you, & the Sky Robbing Club". I'll take any question, on any subject, but you'd get more respect if you were a little less confrontational with your comments. I'm really not sure why you considered it necessary to be rude to me personally, but I won't respond in kind.
I hope you continue to enjoy your Poker, wherever you play it, though I hope that's here.
Take care now.
It's takes a little time to build a large, successful, Online Room, & no Site can lay claim to being all things to all men - none at all.
Everybody offers different packages, which appeal to different Clients, & the Clients (Players) in turn choose which Site best suits them.
There are many Online Rooms I like, & many I don't like. So I play on the ones which best suit my particular requirements.
However I would like Sky to consider tokens and Merchandise as i think they would be gratefully received and well used (just look how many people want one of those Sky Poker Chip Sets lol).
While i may play games elsewhere Sky has some really good tournaments i like and i would love to be able to cash some of these points into those tournaments or maybe even just satalites into those tournaments. Not so much a grumble about Sky as an open comment that i like it so much i would like to use it more, but in turn for my rake i'd like a little more back.
i joined about 3 years ago thinking it had been around for ever lol.
the only problem i have with the rake back with sky is the spread, ie u need 500 points for a fiver, 1000 for 15 therefor if u get 1999 points then the 999 points are nearly worthess. But i think what they pay back in rake is pretty fair, especially if your a big player here.
i'm a small fry player, but the eason i enjoy sky is simply due to the channel 985 and i have learnt a lot from people such as tk and richard and lets be honest the female presenters aint bad on the eye either lol
All the points you make in this Thread wil be perused & considered by the Suits, who see these threads.
So big thanks to BERNIE who started the Thread.
The expense of any part of the Marketing/Promotional Budget is continually scrutinised to ensure it's spent optimally. If Savings can be made in area A, it's all the more for Areas B, C, D & E, etc.
This is particularly true of the Channel, & relevant to that other debate - "IS THE NEW FORMAT WORKING?" (or whatever), in which we are debating the merits of better Tourney Structures versus the Live Show being able to show the Final Table of late-running Televised tourneys.
It's quite awkward to slice the cake fairly.