I'd like to know how he's getting the software/graphics up and running, to a point where someone can actually play a game of online poker. Is he coding the software with himself and his RIO buddies? Is he hiring a team of professionals? Is he buying the software?

There's no point discussing small details until the basics are in place.

disrespectful lou at it again. Dude, you are not a player anyway, stick to your pokerpro tables and gtfo!

4 tables Maximum is a must: it's the easiest way to balance the ratio between regs and fishs in a fair and simple way.

Rake free HU to get games started will just get abused by HU bum hunters. HU shouldn't be offered, it's the most predatory and recs lose their money fastest at it.

Change the idea to give table starters higher VPPs (whatever is similar) and it might be better.

Anyone set a line on if this site will see the light of day? PG must be a huge dog.

yeah and 6max shouldn't be offered because recs lose their money faster compared to full ring.

me thinks you are a freak and a very weird dude

1) you are living in the past , I sold PokerTek to MGAM 2+ years ago. Have had nothing to do it with since. Was time to let my baby go. so I guess I did sorta gtf out of there.

2) If my joke came across as disrespectful to Phil then I apologize to him (not to you... you seem like an angry young boy). Phil is in top 3 of pro players I respect the most. Combo of skill and way he carries himself in the industry.

3) if by player you mean full time then ya thats not me. other than that I've seen a few flops live and online in my time.


But more importantly, thread still spews with comments, suggestion, wishes and dreams which are all pointless unless the MOST BASIC details of the site are released. For starters...

AT LAUNCH, FROM WHICH COUNTRIES WILL THIS SITE ACCEPT BETS ?

If the site caters for regs I would say it's doomed to fail. Hopefully he doesnt read a single post on here and does his own thing. Hopefully he has some business minded people around him who will steer him in the right direction. What ever happens, this is going to be a tough battle and is most certainly -EV for almost everyone attempting the same.

I like Phil, I really hope he proves me wrong.

Would be even easier if you only serve countries w gdp>30k usd

new RIO site will be like a porn poker site, you play vs the nude girls and nude man

Excellent contribution to is thread, pretty much exactly what could be expected in NVG.👏

one might even say it surpassed it

I just hope for Galfonds sake that he's being smart about this & not putting all his eggs into one basket. Hope he thinks of this investment as if he was playing the one drop & have only like 20% of himself or whatever. The chances of this failing is too great, it's one thing to use your name/poker-fame to market a online training site where "professionals" will naturally be drawn to your product vs an engine that needs to be focused on recreational players to make $.

I think it's a great move by Phil, as long as he isn't going to go broke in the process, pretty sure it will be fun & an exciting challenge for him, best of luck.

Why not crowdfund this? Is he just the face, and if so, who is really behind it?

I think Phil wants to control his own site.

There's no point in opening another site with greedy short sighted shareholders.

We already have that in Amaya.

I just want beatable sit and go rake and table caps

And I want tournaments the way they used to be, dagnabit! In my day you had to show up on time or register by the end of the first level, and there was none of this reentry cash game hybridization nonsense. Your tourney life was your tourney life and that's the way we liked it! In order to live you have to be willing to die, but you Millenials wouldn't know a thing about that, now would you?

ya I hear ya.

that dumb 200 year experiment we did here with Capitalism has been such a bust.

Time to move on to some other system.

I vote for Marxism. dunno real know what that is but I just like how it sounds.

The only problem with Marxism is human greed.

Society would be much better off if people were paid equally.

But, certain ****ers always want it all for themselves

There is still time to visit the socialist paradise of Venezuela (but bring your own toilet paper ... they ran out).

We obviously need more details, but he most likely will need to be able to operate for many years without being profitable. He'll 100% need serious capital investment to make this work.

as a recreational player, who plays recreationally, and occasionally pays for pornography as a way of "escaping" from my 9-5 job, i think turning RIO into a porn site is the best idea in this thread.

That's probably the most balla thing I've ever read on 2p2.

In poker's Battle of the Phils, a new leader has emerged.

idk what's sadder ... not to understand, what crowd funding is, or thinking that the (poker) community would come up with enough money