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What is your opinion?

Posted By: Marv Porten
Date: Monday, 13 August 2012, at 6:36 p.m.

In Response To: What is your opinion? (Bob Koca)

Bob, in my opinion the Recreational player will play in the side events because he/she simply enjoys playing backgammon, regardless of the rake. The Recreational player probably has not memorized match equity tables, doesn't calculate take points, and wouldn't know or care if the rake were 20% or 50%. There are (wild guess) 100-200 Professional level players in the U.S. who are concerned about their "equity" in an event, but I would guess that there are many times that number who are Recreational level players and would gladly pay an entry fee of $25 to $100 for a main event or side event with no cash prize (or small cash prize) but a nice trophy for places 1-4 or 1-8.

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