I really believe the new tier system with bonuses is to encourage the player that only comes in to play their freeplay or a small amount to play more so they can at least reach platinum.

I think CET also wants those of us that get close to 1000 or 2500 points a day - to keep playing (and many times losing) until we reach that point that we can get a bonus.

I looked back at my play over the year and under the new system - I would have 120K more points than I did this year. However, with this new bonus system, I will stop at 2500 or so instead of getting 3425 or 4771 as I did in several cases.