So about $4,000.00 divided amongst how many players?
I'm kind of just pulling this out of my ass here but if I had to guess I'd say probably fewer than 25 players would account for 70%+ of total overcharged rake. There are not a huge number of regs putting in volume.
It's also possible, 2 or 3 guys could be making up 70% of total overrake. Any HU Bum hunter could of easily put in 40+ hours at the mid-high HU Cash games over the course of 5 or 6 weeks. This would ad up to 5BTC + stolen from them.
I think attempting to pick a single number won't really be as meaningful as trying to determine a realistic range of what was taken.
The problem is that you are the only one doing anything about it and the people that were scammed don't do anything. I was not playing enough here at that time and less now, to get upset about very little money.
I think the biggest reason players dont do anything about these issues is not because they don't care, it because of the scummy way Betcoin makes any issue take way more effort to explain than is actually worth. We have all witnessed or experienced their standard strategy of "pretend to care, ignore, offer absurd explanation, ignore, ask what the issue is again, repeat" This along with getting treated like shit by Betcoin and all the shills is pretty unattractive.
Most complaints about Betcoin are BS, just like most complaints about any casino. (check out
http://fuckpokerstars.com/ ) It's the nature of the industry that degens lose their mind, their money and act crazy. Betcoin uses this to their advantage, and has been lumping legitimate issues into the same pile as the crazys. I'm trying to make it somehow easier for players to stand up for themselves against sites like Betcoin.
I understand what you're saying though, and agree to some extent. I don't blame any player that chooses not put themselves through all the goes with calling out Betcoin - (although those who are willing to tell the world how trustworthy Betcoin is for a free ticket to daily coin are pretty despicable) I don't ever expect a moment of triumph or anything, but it's worth noting that between pokerfraud alert and twoplustwo at least several hundred poker players are aware of whats going on at Betcoin, possibly over 1,000. I think their reputation has suffered over the past few months, After over 2 years, they still can't even get enough players to fill two tables and meet the guar for the "daily coin"
My next step I think is to make official scam accusations against them, including plo8monster and Xiaoxiao, and hopefully get the attention of those who are most trusted on this forum.