May will be an interesting month - for poker in general, but also at PokerStrategy.com.

Some bits & pieces:

- 5x $10,000 depositor freerolls at 5 different rooms
- special add-ons such as a raffle for 3 iPad2
http://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/po...egy.com_45184/

- weekly $2,280 depositor freerolls at PartyPoker
- $1k in cash + 2x $640 seats for the Quarterly Million
http://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/pokerstrategy/Exclusive:-Weekly-$2,280-Depositor-Freerolls-on-PartyPoker-_44969/


Plus, we announced our strategic outlook for the coming months!



http://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/co...n-Ever!_45174/

Being the biggest affailate in the world and haveing no branch for US players, would you mind giveing a statement about influence of the US$ worth loss over the last few months on the poker economy? The matter of the fact being that the USD lost over 10% on worth in the last few months this has direct influence on the cash outs/winnings of your players. Do you have any plans to push the poker rooms to use other currencies more strongly? Maybe even make your freerolls in those currencies?

Hey egoismforever,

I think with regards to Europe, the most negative thing is change in general.
It does not matter too much whether the USD is valued high or low vs the EUR - but if it is volatile, in creates cost and insecurity for everyone.

Simplified:

If the USD goes up, ...
- recreational players deposit less USD (and maybe even less EUR, as they feel they get less "playing value" for their EUR money).
- winning players get more spending value (EUR) for their USD winnings
- poker rooms in the short term have higher EUR revenues to pay their EUR (operation + marketing) bills with

If the USD goes down, ...
- recreational players deposit more
- winning players have less value in their spending currency EUR if they cash out
- poker rooms

As you see, it's always upsides and downsides mixed - so in general, I feel that the volatility in itself is the problem, not a high or low exchange rate in itself.

Best,
Lutz