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Originally Posted by the4bettingmonk
Think crypto is going to be the biggest change tho - reason banks and insurers are taking a serious look at blockchain is massively decreased expenses - presumably online poker will have a lot less rake.
Based on how good Libratus is sites could offer well over 100% rb to face a bot heads-up.
Skrill buying NETeller was probably one of the worst things happening to online transaction landscape. Anyone have an idea how much does Skrill total of PokerStars deposits? Probably not majority, but a good chunk. And Skrill takes a MASSIVE vig for money transactions, which is ludicrous considering they basically just move bits around. (Skrill tries to charge 2,25% or something insane even if you convert a mid 5-fig sum from USD to EUR in their site.)
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Originally Posted by coon74
I don't think it will be rake-free If a top human learned to beat a house bot, Stars would be losing a lot of money, so they'll charge configurable rake to make any human's winrate negative.
Human regs are too expensive to maintain (gambling commissions require to allow humans to withdraw), house bots would do the entertainment and deposits-to-rake conversion job for less money.
^ Libratus comment above. Poker, Chess and GO aren't back-and-forth battles between humanity and computers. Once computers beat humans, it's only gonna get worse.
But I agree humans could definitely have leg up in other variants in poker. E.g. deep PLO 6-max with antes. But sites aren't probably gonna start offering these niche games nowhere soon.