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Most people in this thread still fail to understand one simple thing.Online poker room will only exist if amount of money deposited exceeds amount of money withdrawn by winning players and rake taken by the room.
This condition is met all the time. Even when the reg makes most of rake.
I dont use real numbers, but some from random from my head as an example.
Fish deposits 100 $
Reg vs fish playes, and they make rake of 50 $ till the fish looses all his money.
Because of rake, reg has 50 $. He cashes out.
So the the condition is met - there is deposited 100$ and cashed out 50$.
Reg happy cause he won and room happy cause he won also. Fish happy cause he had a good time
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Yea, actually if the fish would have played roulette, then he would have lost all his 100$ to the house in one of the 2 ways - rake of roulette or just allin an bad luck.
If fish goes allin with the reg and he looses, the reg cashes out and money is not visible for the room anymore.
But would fish deposit the same 100$ if he knows that he plays roulete and not vs a human. Maybe he would deposit and loose only 50 $.
That is what I am not sure about.
Even fish I guess understands that play vs human is much better than play vs house.
It might be that fish would deposit 90 $ for gambling vs house and would deposit 100$ to play against human.
THen when he plays roulette - house takes all 90 $. If he plays poker - house takes 50$. So even if fish deposits less to play vs house it might be still more profitable for the house than fish depositing more for poker.
But I have no real data of course, its just an example.
Last edited by SPeed_FANat1c; 10-31-2014 at 02:48 PM.