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01/16/2010		Online Casino Style: News MicroGaming Changes Fish Rules
Home History Games News Dictionary		One of the most well-known and subsequently powerful names in online gambling is adjusting to some changes to their poker policies this week, as the effective date for MicroGaming’s new ‘fish’ rules for their poker affiliates. The MicroGaming Poker Network plays host to a number of the most popular internet casinos, but many have expressed concerns about the climate changes of the sites once winners are no longer welcome. The new policy isn’t necessarily exclusive to the Microgaming online casino poker sites; most of the biggest poker networks are instilling similar rules regarding ‘shark’ to ‘fish’ ratios online. Boss Media’s International Poker Network, Playtech’s iPoker group and the Bodog network are all making similar changes. While ‘sharks’ are the winners of the poker world, well experienced players that use their game well to their profit, ‘fish’ are those new to poker, and those likely to lose a lot of money before they get much better. According to a recent report by Poker News, the policy change will affect the rate of rake calculation for the Microgaming Poker Network, previously, they had been using the contributed method, meaning that the operators’ rake is calculated by dividing pot sums by the total number of players, to the weighted method, meaning that the rake can vary per table, depending on how much each individual player contributes to the pot. The policy’s new information has been updated on their site, which reads: "Although this may sound confusing to most people, it essentially means that it pays for Microgaming skins to attract players who are more likely to redeposit when they loose their cash playing. In other words, the sites recognize they won't make money from successful players who cash out winnings over the long run.”

01/16/2010

Online Casino Style: News
MicroGaming Changes Fish Rules

One of the most well-known and subsequently powerful names in online gambling is adjusting to some changes to their poker policies this week, as the effective date for MicroGaming’s new ‘fish’ rules for their poker affiliates. The MicroGaming Poker Network plays host to a number of the most popular internet casinos, but many have expressed concerns about the climate changes of the sites once winners are no longer welcome.

The new policy isn’t necessarily exclusive to the Microgaming online casino poker sites; most of the biggest poker networks are instilling similar rules regarding ‘shark’ to ‘fish’ ratios online. Boss Media’s International Poker Network, Playtech’s iPoker group and the Bodog network are all making similar changes. While ‘sharks’ are the winners of the poker world, well experienced players that use their game well to their profit, ‘fish’ are those new to poker, and those likely to lose a lot of money before they get much better.

According to a recent report by Poker News, the policy change will affect the rate of rake calculation for the Microgaming Poker Network, previously, they had been using the contributed method, meaning that the operators’ rake is calculated by dividing pot sums by the total number of players, to the weighted method, meaning that the rake can vary per table, depending on how much each individual player contributes to the pot. The policy’s new information has been updated on their site, which reads:

"Although this may sound confusing to most people, it essentially means that it pays for Microgaming skins to attract players who are more likely to redeposit when they loose their cash playing. In other words, the sites recognize they won't make money from successful players who cash out winnings over the long run.”