The tech hasn't been ready all these years but its basically on the cusp now. Having larger awareness and bigger money head towards supporting emerging projects I think would push it over the edge. There were security hurdles but I think the significant ones have been passed. The interesting part about poker is that it can "break" but still have segregated funds that aren't destroyed from the players view. Like if there is a security exploit in the game play it doesn't affect the money. So it doesn't really need to be tried test and true before players rely on the tech.

I see differently. Dilution would be bad, but competition would be welcomed by the players imo. Its been many years since poker stars had to adjust to its competitors.

I think many projects will arise and a few good ones will really rise to the top. These sites will be sites the players choose, not governments via regulation and payment processor restrictions.

In a truly p2p landscape (which is further away I agree and admit) there is "dilution" just players playing the games they want, when they want, and how they want...without relying on the operator to solely choose.

I mean imagine you just spent a year and a million dollars (my guess of what Phil had in the bank for this)...and then you walk into this landscape of emerging crypto based/hybrid p2p projects arising en masse.

Poker is about adjusting. Galfond needs to adjust NOW. My guess is he has given up and doesn't have the heart to announce it.

all conjecture on our part, but above with likely gross underestimation of costs and timing of regulatory (nearly all new to licensed gaming do this so no dig intended on phil) probably pretty good guess as to the lack of any communicated progress.

A year+ ago when he started, the blockchain / crypto conversations were in much different state and much more incubator phase for poker and many other markets. chit is moving fast. A year is a lifetime. world is changing, and quickly.

gretsky said it best and to paraphrase, one of his keys to success was to avoid skating to where the puck is and instead move quickly to where it will be.

I think if Galfond announced suddenly he is moving to, or teaming up with, a serverless project the industry shake!

well, what did he say when you called and asked him bout all this stuff?

I think like you did not long ago he thinks its gibberish talk. Doesn't realize its mission critical.

The day you can pay your 50 year old plumber in crypto might be the same day regulators will accept a poker platform that hosts games on servers they don't control.

We'll see if that day comes while real money online poker is still a thing. I would not bet on it.

Lol @ budget of 1 million..

lol on gibberish. touche.

Hes smarter than me though, used to have a slide in his house, and has been thinking about this stuff for over a year. I have never had a slide in my house and just started thinking about it last week.

So cant compare us two. Im guessing he'd have to be considering these new options/strategies.

So people think Galfond should go to the investors who are a year behind schedule and say:

The crypto stuff is interesting, and I personally follow the decentralized poker thread and occasionally post in it, but this discussion belongs there not here.

Agreed. Let's not make this thread another thread about crypto and/or decentralized poker.

Please don't post any more of that stuff here. Please.

Any subsequent posts along those lines will be deleted (I apologize in advance if that makes you feel any better).


Edit to add: Of course, if there is news along those lines regarding Galfond's new site, then everything is fair game.

deleted apologies.

I got an email earlier today fro RIO offering a a year long membership discount. What caught my eye though at the bottom of the email it says "Free $100 at DraftBoard.com or Run It Once Poker". How soon is this actually coming to fruition?

https://imgur.com/a/1GDEw

The problem is weaker players are not swayed by rake as much as many would think or hope.

I played on one 0-rake site with great software and live IM support that quickly went under.

The plan for the site was free play for six months and then a flat monthly fee of something like 60 dollars.
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It may not be easy for a new site to hit critical mass and push to the top.

* I will root for Galfond.

Copied from the site:
"What is Run It Once Poker?
Run It Once Poker is a real-money poker platform set to launch in 2018. Your $100 will be in your account as soon as we are up and running."

Building decent software in a short time seems not that difficult looking at crypto site: coinpoker.

I am quite impressed with their ideas and how they are going to build a customer base attracting small players. I wish Phil had done it this way.

I think a lot of pokerplayers like cryptocurrency and crypto enthousiasts like poker

Ahh yeah, I guess you haven't the **** storm they're creating with cancelling tournaments on the FT and not honouring the added money.

Do you have a link?

Most recent posts here: https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/2...86/index3.html

Hmm guess this is going to happen soon

Just interviewed Phil a couple days ago... this is his answer when I asked "What has progress been like on that front, and when can the world expect to see it debut?":

"Progress has been slower than I expected, but we’re still moving as quickly as we can and as passionately as ever. I can tell you you’ll see it in 2018, but beyond that, I’m not quite ready to make any promises."

lets say galfond launches his site this year..
its gonna be the site with the worst reg:fish ratio right?

It's extremely disingenuous and immoral of Galfond to continue to lead the players to believe he is going to launch a poker site.

He's obviously busto.

ya but, how can be busto

AND

have a maid.

Those two things seem to be mutally exclusive.

Ban?

Just amazing to me that people think someone as smart as Galfond is going to launch a poker site and not be smart enough to realize they need more than RIO members to be successful. You guys realize RIO members, and training site members in general, are a microscopic % of the actual global player base, right?

Yeah but the proportion of winning players to losing players who know who Phil Galfond is probably not adequate if you going to start running a poker site at this point in time. Maybe what .1% of poker players would know who omgclayaiken or iluvwnba is at this point and would care about this?