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If the truth - and subsequent actions taken from unveiling it - hurts your business model, I can understand very well that you want to talk affiliate managers into believing that our view is wrong.
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It's not about rakeback.
Maybe it would be a good idea for a network like iPoker to give everyone 50% rakeback flat.

As stated many, many times, the problem is about the highest rakeback being...

Every room that is able to generate genuine new players is able to offer VIP systems. Especially as a VIP system can be super simple, e.g. with flat rakeback. And if you want to be super-crazy, you...

In fact, there is going to be more competition - because with clean rules, the networks could finally be competitive and pose a real alternative to other rooms for players - and thus affiliates.

I...

The paper and our whole case is based on simple logic, common sense and some understanding of economics and the poker market.

We do not think we need to prove this - especially not to rakeback...

I would not really call this selfish, as we ourselves are pretty much balanced in terms of having both loads of recreational player signups ever month and having quite some 'self-created' big...

Hey Chris / Poker Affiliate Solutions,

Chris, I absolutely appreciate your post - harsh language happens if you are into something with your whole heart.

I agree that the paper does not fulfill...

Yep, it is as you describe.

The $100k promo indeed is a problem and especially if happens what we hope, we need to remove it - as we urge poker rooms to forbid us from having such a thing.

But...

Sorry, didn't see the thread still lived.

Giving people a free bankroll and teaching them poker and helping them when they have problems of any kind pays off for the industry in two ways:

1. A...

The line draws itself.
If I tomorrow open up an affiliate at XYZPoker, offering 95% of my commission as additional rakeback and advertise that heavily on 2+2, I contribute zero to the growth of...

Nope. We even will become less competitive to many affiliates and our partner poker rooms themselves if all promos are centralised. We do it because we think only this way, the poker rooms / networks...

We need to match any promotion other affiliates do to prevent our players being poached by rakeback affiliates.

We would rather prefer all monetary incentives to be centralised, i.e. that monetary...

Depends on whether the player went inactive in the sense that he probably would not again deposit / be lost for the industry.

But in general its hard to adapt this principle to net losing players,...

Sorry now for the triple post, but I think otherwise my post would be so long and hardly be readable:

Sure. I would even respect every player who says: "I basically agree with what you say & the...

Let me rephrase your words for a shop owner:

"My business model is to sell beer to adults. I don't advertise underage drinking or illegal drugs. However if a customer contacts me, seeking illegal...

If a player leaves room A on network X to play at room B at network X just because it gets him 5% more rakeback, yes.

But its even "worse poaching" if an affiliate tells a customer: "you cannot...

As I said: I do not want you to do something as your business model is based on of poaching winning players from A to B. You are probably even reliant on the situation staying as it is. In a perfect...

I'm not mad against anyone. I'm just trying to convince winning players and contributing affiliates that "being agsainst" under-the-table deals is perfectly aligned to their most inherent financial...

I understand your position completely. And I am not thinking I can convince you morally or some other way.

I'm just saying that winning players and other affiliates should not respect, but...

I did not read anyone here saying that its a bad idea to incentivise high-volume players.

It would e.g. be perfectly fine if for example iPoker introduced a very aggressive VIP system or flat...

If you're speaking about a 'small network flagship': nothing speaks against a small network starting off with 70% rakeback.

The problem is that many small networks are so desperate to grow that...