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Originally Posted by zvonjimir
New influx of recs must happen from India and China, and smart marketing can produce great results in that area.
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Four out of Five dentists agree. @zvon posts are solid. Of the shiploads and shiploads of ideas / comments posted. the one above is the one comment most heavily laden with smartness.
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Originally Posted by TimStone
maybe but consider this...
China much more complex due to central govt control, and large and important differences between Eastern and Western cultures.
India on the other hand is ripe for explosion of poker, both live and online. Recent laws have made live California Card Club type poker rooms "legal" in several States in India. Karnataka (think Bangalore) being the most promising.
Regarding online in India, 2005 US poker boom (still hate that word) referred to as "moneymaker effect" was really the effect of two other things
1) readily avaialble online poker sites and easy to fund online poker accounts
2) Abundance of Poker TV shows on network and cable TV (served basically as poker site infomercial)
3) and to a lesser degree but still important. an abundance of live poker venues
Cant speak to funding of accounts in India ( I think its a pain but not sure), but since online sites are readily available (yellow market for Stars I think) if poker got on TV a similar situation would develop in India as US in 2005. In India however, the TV poker component would be most impactful if on the state run networks for cricket.
If either of those countries are the main targets for RIO site, then that would explain there silence on market/regulatory issues.
A new privately owned site serving India for example would have a huge advantage over a publicly traded site like Amaya. Private company would have lots more flexibility in their marketing. Rem India is yellow for Stars. they operate but dont go over board with marketing. A private company could easily out market Stars in a country like India.
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Last edited by PTLou; 09-17-2016 at 10:36 AM.