Quote from: Micon on January 04, 2014, 04:10:12 PM

Quote from: darkmule on January 04, 2014, 12:25:33 PM

Quote from: EarlyCuyler on December 28, 2013, 11:07:09 PM

Read the AMA, some interesting stuff in there. Micon did pretty much duck the question regarding reducing the krill freerolls.

They're not as reduced as you might think. They're less frequent, but considering the vast increases in the value of Bitcoin, are either almost as good or possibly even better than the previous krillroll setup.

I do think there should probably be more krillrolls for lower krill players just because people like to play poker, but I think the main issue there is the shitty Briggs software can't deal with 500+ players.

1) IMO the krillrolls are dialed in to start 2014. Casual players are able to get into the 1.25k and the 5k with low stakes and a few months of playing. The 25k, 50k and now 150k are for our pounders or the casual players that have been around for a long time. These are free coins given to our frequent players. The old system was waaaaaay too generous and I feel it's balanced now.

Quote from: donk4u on January 04, 2014, 01:42:25 PM

There is zero incentive for the avg player that comprise the site and its almost a slap in face to have 150krill with 5k in chipsl given to a few players. The 5 bitcoin 150k krill is taking away too much from the masses for the few and should be changed.

1) By this logic, if we removed the 150k krill-roll you would be happier? it would no longer be a slap in the face? IMO the 5 coin 150k krillroll cannot take anything away from the masses - because it's not aimed at the masses, and uses no other resources that would usually be spewed to the masses. It is specifically for our frequent players that are huge krill-earners. If you are personally not a huge krill-earner that's ok too - there is a krillroll at every level. Think about when pokerstars introduced "Supernova Elite" - I remember being a massive multitabler of MTTs at the time, I looked at the promotion and it's value then did the calculation to see how many I would have to earn each week, and it was borderline impossible for me. While it seems like a fun personal challenge, I doubt I will ever dedicate a year of my life to going after that - it just wasn't for me - but that didn't stop me from taking advantage of the many other smaller promotions for playing. I never felt like 'Stars offering SNE was anything but a challenge to the top volume players. IMO think of the 150k krillroll the same way.

Maybe slap in the face was a little strong . Im saying all those huge krillas had a huge advantage in starting when bitcoin was 5 dollars as opposed to bitcoin being over 800 dollars. They are literally freerolling a huge advantage by getting 5k chip freeroll for krilling when bitcoin was 5 dollars usd.

I have Krilled 30k krill since march or 10 months and that is pretty substantial considering the cost of bitcoin. I would be happier if the 5k given to a small percentage of playe pool that had a huge advantage over those krilling now because of price of bitcoin was leveled out by having a 40k krill and 70k krill so players would have more incentive to rake. Good luck raking from 50k for a player like me that started in March of last year to the next level which is 150k.

The pokerstars supernova elite is a bad analogy to seals rake because 1 dollar was always 1 dollar. The huge krillas you speak of were raking at 5 dollars a bitcoin as opposed to 800 dollars bitcoin now thats a humongously obscene advantage and hardly a level playing field and they get 5k chip krillroll? how is that fair? The 150k krill is not the huge krill earners because they earned that krill when bitcoin was 5 dollars not the 800 it is today and that makes it a ridiculously uneven playing field.

Its up to the site how to reward dedicated raking players in the end . Rewarding those that raked at 5 dollars a bitcoin more heavily while basically not rewarding those raking at todays bitcoin prices at the same rate seems unfair to me.