China Market

[Lanny]

What do you think about China Market? Do you think the demand by players in the China is huge?

[MJ]

you are kidding right?

[TonyG]

Unfortunately, their banking laws will have to change A TON for online poker to become popular. At the end of the day, they are a communist country who is still 10 years behind the rest of the world when it comes to E Commerce.

At the last company I worked at (a web based merchant) we tried to get our sites on the Internet in China. The biggest hurdle we ran into was that the Chinese (on average) simply don't feel comfortable using credit cards online. Plus the fact that we would have to open a bank account in a communist country and the Govt wanted a large sum of USD always in the account. We can assume the Chinese Govt would require the same of operators in our industry as well.

Until operators can deliver a product in a feasible fashion, affiliates will just have to wait till we can market to a HUGE, untapped player base.

[superiorword]

About 2 years back we worked for a poker room who got their content translated into 7-8 languages- including simplified chinese. I clearly told them that they are wasting their money and there will be no fun of it, but they didn't care and got the translations done....and I never saw a chinese version of their website!


May be they are printing those chinese translations and making paper aeroplanes out of them LOL

[Planet Mark]

Look forward to this market opening up one day... they say that 1 in 3 people in the world are Chinese. In our famiy there is me, Xing-fung Li, and Colin.

I think its Colin.


Cheers, Mark

[Lanny]

TonygPAS:
I hear there are some companies who can help to open a bank account in China, then you could accept to pay by debit card. You may have a try.

[Lanny]

Look forward to this market opening up one day... they say that 1 in 3 people in the world are Chinese. In our famiy there is me, Xing-fung Li, and Colin.

I think its Colin.


Cheers, Mark

Xing-Fung Li

[jdogg4000]

About 2 years back we worked for a poker room who got their content translated into 7-8 languages- including simplified chinese. I clearly told them that they are wasting their money and there will be no fun of it, but they didn't care and got the translations done....and I never saw a chinese version of their website!


May be they are printing those chinese translations and making paper aeroplanes out of them LOL

yea dont worry about them it never converted for me

[alextam]

when you living in a contury like me(see my flag),you will gonna know,WE ARE WILLING TO GAMBLING,BECAUSE WE CAN NOT DO ANYTHING SIGNIFICATIVE IN THIS STUPID CONTURY EXCEPT ENTERTAIN OURSELVES.



the main online cards game provider serves 10,000,000 people per day,the most papular game in China called 斗地主(doudizhu,means anti-landlord).



the point why you guys dont got players is most people in China didnt even know there is a card game in the earth called hold'em.need time to bring up the market



ask me anything

[leporello]

Alex every poker player and affiliate has been praying for the Chinese to take up texas holdem since the US gambling legislation