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Originally Posted by Roger Mainfield
To start a new pokersite would require an enormous investment in marketing, which no one is willing to do because the market is so uncertain. That makes it more like an oligopoly and stifles innovation. Stars isn't willing to make enormous changes to what is working for them, and the other players in the market have decided to go for the lowest effort route of making a product that only appeals to degenerates and the people who prey on them.
the new revolution with poker sites is already starting. In many countries (Us for example, same for Asia) where gambling is illegal there is more and more mafia owned agent type poker rooms.
the only reason why poker might ever get big trancion in Asia is thanks to mafia.
gambling is almost equally profitable for mafia as drugs just the consequences are way less heavy (e.g. in Asia you might be sentenced to death penalty for drugs, and you aren't even risking serious jail time with poker).
Very few people know that gambling become one of the biggest income streams for mafia:
http://calvinayre.com/2013/06/30/bus...gambling-ring/
It all started with Italian mafia were they used their dillership methods to sell online gambling products and because they become so succesfull with it poker rooms like that started to appear all over the world.
One things they have in common tho is an extremly high rake (e.g. uncapped 3%/4% rake). So future belongs to high rake no rakeback/valueback type of sites.
So claiming that there aren't any huge changes starting is just untrue. You just won't heard about it on 2+2 or other big sites like that.
I mean given the nature of the business they don't want to be well known.
Very few affiliates know about existance of such rooms and even fewer are able to sustainably offer deals there for regular players.
As of know probably none of the rooms/networks like that are huge (except for dollaro poker network which traffic is heavily underestimated on pokerscout) but as a part of the whole market the agent based poker rooms/networks are already huge.
Just very few people here on 2+2 are aware about it.
Last edited by gargamel_fk; 06-28-2014 at 02:58 AM.