Progressive Bad Beat - should new players be immediately eligible? (2 Viewers)

[TheYeti]

In my monthly .25/.50 NLHE game we have a progressive bad beat jackpot that is funded by raking $5 from the hourly $2 ante bomb pots as well as rounding all players down to the nearest $5 at cash out. Since I instituted the bad beat about a year ago, it's only hit once and it's currently sitting at around $400.

We haven't had any new players enter the game for over a year and a half now, with most of the regulars playing at this game for 3+ years (some, almost 20 years). We have two brand new players coming this Friday who seem like they may become regulars.

My question to the collective is; should we require new players to attend a certain number of games before they are eligible for the bad beat? Seems kind of unfair for someone who's only played a game or two to take it down...but, it also wouldn't be fair if one of the regulars missed out because he got a bad beat from a noob.

Thoughts?

 

[Jimulacrum]

In my monthly .25/.50 NLHE game we have a progressive bad beat jackpot that is funded by raking $5 from the hourly $2 ante bomb pots as well as rounding all players down to the nearest $5 at cash out. Since I instituted the bad beat about a year ago, it's only hit once and it's currently sitting at around $400.

We haven't had any new players enter the game for over a year and a half now, with most of the regulars playing at this game for 3+ years (some, almost 20 years). We have two brand new players coming this Friday who seem like they may become regulars.

My question to the collective is; should we require new players to attend a certain number of games before they are eligible for the bad beat? Seems kind of unfair for someone who's only played a game or two to take it down...but, it also wouldn't be fair if one of the regulars missed out because he got a bad beat from a noob.

Thoughts?

Are you raking the pots they're playing in and/or rounding down their cash-outs?

If yes to any of that, they should be included.

 

[BGinGA]

Anybody who contributes to the pool should be eligible to win it.

 

[TheYeti]

Are you raking the pots they're playing in and/or rounding down their cash-outs?

If yes to any of that, they should be included.

Anybody who contributes to the pool should be eligible to win it.

Makes total sense, thanks for setting me straight guys!

 

[Rhodeman77]

You need to keep recruiting players to keep a game going. If you were to exclude them from potentially winning it, you are going to turn new players away very quickly.

 

[kingdeuceoff]

Yes they should be eligible, otherwise they shouldn’t have to pay in to fund it. Might even encourage a more gamble friendly player to play and play certain hands.