oh yeah. like how much people in suits roaming the streets at night have robbed you, heee?

He had long Hair, but a neat and "stylish" appearance.
If chewy just trimmed his beard and combed his hair/wears a ponytail and puts off the hoodie no one would say anything. Not that he has to, **** people's expectations to appearance, but if you want to be a flasgship of a new poker room and be at least somewhere near maximum appealing to potential customers, you may should consider doing so.

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edit: the pic

That's my point.

I will be less worried (if only subconsciously, but likely consciously) giving my money to a guy in a suit to hold/manage than to a guy looking like the opposite of a banker in a suit. Online poker rooms have enough hurdles it needs to overcome to get deposits without a potential player asking, "Is this for real? Can I get my money back if I win? ..."

- White Ninja vs. Black Ninja real money fighting game?

(p.s. Chewy is awesome so gl!)

While I agree with this way more than the 'homeless' tag it's been given I really don't think that pic will engender trust with too many people. When I saw it I immediately thought of Black Jesus (I don't see skin colour) and it almost looks like a caricature of someone trying to be genuine n trustworthy. Ima cynical prick tho so...

And I do wish them the best, just maybe would remove the pic, even lowering the hoodie would be a great start imo

If you can't even get basic things correct on your site like spelling, grammar, not copy and pasting Stars TOS, I don't think I trust giving you even about $3.50.

Both him and galfond will light a tonne of money on fire before quitting. That fact they are trying to start sites just speaks of how years of poker for a living can leave humans so inept in fundamental decision making around business practicality


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An existing network would already have certification & operating licence. They would also already have a tested & certified RNG on that network.
They just seem to be saying they have taken a stab at what they think the UKGC would require of them.
So it's probably new software, right?

You'd think Chewy would come into the forums to answer any questions.

He probably checked out the thread, saw 10 people call him homeless, and then decided he's not going to bother.

I'm going to have him on the podcast tomorrow and will ask him a bunch of questions in here.

Sounds GTO

good to see new sites getting started but get rid of the homeless guy pic it's terrible.

Better hope that his internet connection in Nazareth is good.

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this.

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I'm sure they both faced similar negative opinions from people when they both took on poker as a profession back in the middle of the last decade.

I'd doubt their motivation for pursuing this avenue is solely monetary. They are both passionate about poker and poker has been a large part of their lives for many years now. They see the negative direction that it is heading in many ways, especially online, and they want to take their best shot at righting that ship. Personally, I admire both of them for taking this risk and even just the attempt to make changes or create something better for the players at this point is commendable from my point of view.

If it fails it fails but thank you for trying to make something better Chewy. Best of luck.

That "negative direction" isnt happening because of rake/evil Amaya.....it's because of grinders. Specifically too many of them and their short sighted and even morally repugnant methods of relieving recreationals of their money and poker experience asap . Think multi accounting. Scripts. Complex HUDs. Database buying/sharing, ghosting etc etc all short sighted moves considered standard in the professional poker player ecosystem

So we have old school grinders thinking they can recreate an old school experience for grinders in a marketplace already destroyed by those very grinders. Gee wonder how it's going to work out

I'm not sure which country you are from but many American grinders are able to relate to a time before many of these issues plagued online poker. Some of these issues were brought upon by greed from the grinders but the main networks have done next to nothing to prevent it and infact in many cases encouraged it through their volume incentivized rakeback schemes, etc. They do next to nothing to make using complex HuDs more difficult and even make it very easy to datamine hands on their networks, use seating scripts, etc.

I'm not going to speak for chewy or Galfond but I imagine their vision for a better poker network is not blind to these "morally repugnant methods" as you describe them.

You may not share that view but it's quite obvious that most sites are still doing next to nothing to combat these issues that you describe problematic and instead just increasing their rakes though various means whether it be promoting less skilled formats with higher rake or just straight out increasing the rake on older formats or removing rakeback.

I hope u are right

but these are two guys who ran training sites so ......idk maybe they are trying to put back what they took away

it's no ones "fault" ... poker is about optimizing your winnings, so the "greed factor" applies to companies as well as the professional grinders. while i agree, that every step to get maximum value, was a step to the end of the boom, i think it's somehow a natural behaviour ... there was no scenario, that this is a never ending story.

after black friday a high value market had to be abandoned so naturally it was less money to be made. regulation and taxation is an additional drain for the economy. if you add the global decline in deposits (in $), it's obvious that less and less can be earned.

awesome