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Originally Posted by Gzesh
Las Vegas casinos have had poker in close proximity to other casino games and often literally next to sports betting for years, so I'd think it would last for years coexisting with other gaming channels. Has worked okay in Las Vegas for at least 45+ years I can attest to.
I would guess poker survives in that environment because unlike non casino resorts, Vegas has not quite an infinite supply of players/gamblers/recreationals but still a huge number of people and fresh money supply on an ongoing basis.
Pokerstars are kind of replicating Vegas, only online, a poker room that has a casino and sportsbook.
This is their prerogative to do so, however, what is fundamentally different between the Vegas live casinos and Pokerstars, is that Pokerstars are specifically using poker as the hook to get players into the casino.
For example, when I was watching the Pokerstars Championship Cash Game from Monaco on UK Channel 4 TV last night (a mainstream TV channel, not a small "satellite" one), which was a brilliant show and fantastically produced, there was no mention at all during the show that should I (the viewer) sign up to Pokerstars on line that there would be a plethora of other gaming products on offer as well as the poker. Naturally they also ran paid for ads for Pokerstars in the ad breaks. Again no mention of what is really on their platform.
So this kind of marketing is not at all transparent, it is in fact quite devious.
I don't actually care per se. There are a multitude of things in life and society that aren't totally pure or fair
and there are so many other things that need fixing of way higher priority than a company being a bit sneaky.
But what we are discussing is RIO's new site, a site from what we hear or suspect aims to bring back the good old days of a sustainable poker eco-system where players have a fair chance to prosper and aren't in danger of being led astray by other gambling temptations or faced with games that are unbeatable due to high rake, and therefore games at higher stakes simply never happen because there is no realistic path up through the stakes.
Last edited by SageDonkey; 03-09-2018 at 01:37 AM.