I think with the current BTC price, the highest limits literally never run anyway.
e.g. you could offer:
0.02/0.04
0.05/0.10
0.10/0.20
0.25/0.50
0.50/1
2.50/5
5/10
These levels would still offer enough variety for the different player types with varying wealth, while creating a better and less confusing user experience.
Wouldn't make much of a difference. Most of the traffic is concentrated in the micro stakes regardless and you're not changing much within them. By getting rid of .01/.02 the low-end players will have to deal with playing at a minimum equivalent of about $17.5 NL. If we round it to 20NL then you can see that the threshold is pretty high compared to other sites. e.g. you could offer:
0.02/0.04
0.05/0.10
0.10/0.20
0.25/0.50
0.50/1
2.50/5
5/10
These levels would still offer enough variety for the different player types with varying wealth, while creating a better and less confusing user experience.
A less convoluted lobby would be a big difference in my opinion.
What is the advantage of having a 25/50 table, which is either completely empty or a guy waiting for players?
What is the advantage of having 0.01/0.02 and 0.05/0.10 for Omaha, while also having an intermediate stake level
of 0.02/0.04 for Holdem?
What is the advantage of having 2/4 and 3/6 tables, which very rarely run, when you could instead offer a
single stake level in-between (2.5/5), which could make the game run more often while being neutral in terms of revenue?
...
Stuff like this is just bad and could be improved tremendously by streamlining the offer a bit.
A cleaner lobby is less confusing for new players and improves the poker experience by a big margin!
A site like pokerstars with a really big playerpool can afford to spread games at 20 different stake levels.
A site like Nitrogensports with a smaller (but growing) playerpool would be better off with 5-6 stake levels.
If the demand is there they could always reintroduce a stake level (or if the BTC price drops too much) in the future, but
for now, a streamlining would be a tremendous improvement.
