Some serious answers
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Originally Posted by toltec444
I´m not accusing any poker network of anything, I´m just trying to understand something.
I was thinking about iPoker network, as you know they have many poker rooms. The opened mansion poker and offered a huge bonus f 1st deposit of 200%. I go there, make the deposit, clear the bonus, win some other benefits from the VIP club, fine. Them some months later they open another poker room, they offer you the same 200% deposit bonus. I dont see any sense in that, it seems like they are competing against themselves.
Much of it is competition among themselves, which is how the Crypto network eventually failed (that and too generous a rewards plan for low level players).
Many of the terms of clearing the bonuses are not particularly great, especially without an immediate VIP upgrade, and some that were way too generous (pokerplex for a while) had to change their terms to one that made sense. Simply saying 200% deposit bonus lacks context of the clearing bonus conditions.
A room can offer a 200000% deposit bonus but if it clears $1 per 10,000 raked hands it does not matter how much bonus money you can theoretically clear. Realistically you will clear 0.
The rooms themselves are all separate from each other so the "then they open another room" is not quite what you think it to be.
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Originally Posted by toltec444
This kind of bonus offerings are so suspicious to me, it seems the same as pokerstars would give you a vitalicious 200% bonus for playing there.
Again, it depends on the terms and conditions. Most are not as good as they seem, though once in a while a few are very solid. A few years ago they were as good as they seemed, but that changed.
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Originally Posted by toltec444
Another point that makes me think, dont you think there are too many poker rroms online? I dont think there are so many online players to justify so many rooms. And there is a lot of rooms that are always amost empty?
There most certainly were too many rooms for a long time which is why you have seen so many rooms and networks merge, and some just vanish. This is a natural part of a mature industry and the basic laws of supply and demand.