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I'd say the reverse to you. if you think the steps you mentioned are aimed at *eliminating* affiliates, you should reevaluate. Some of the steps you mentioned are merely them doing better at things...

The first sentence, they have defined those terms, and they aren't calling people that, they are calling the business models that. In contrast "socialist propoganda" doesn't define "socialist" in...

It would be nice if this could be a reasonable discussion between reasonable people. They presented their opinion, which they believe is true. Disagree or don't but can we please refrain from the...

I have for played without since I was a kid. First you need to face one thing, you are an exception. The majority of players play without rakeback. And the vast majority of players play poker...

This is the real point of contention, though the Pokerstrategy paper dances around it by only focusing on part of the issue.

In the opinion of some, current poker affiliate programs are bad...

You're just making up an alternate reality. Rakeback is a tiny part of the industry outside of Full Tilt Poker. Rakeback is available at the US rooms. The large non-US rooms don't have it.

Your...

You probably should, as the above is not true, and doesn't logically follow. To state the obvious, the largest site has no rakeback, and the largest site has produced the most growth in raw numbers...

Um, the other guy did, which is why I wrote what I wrote.

This is where we reach the absurdity point with rakeback. It would be utterly goofy to give back 27% to everyone. Instead of creating a massive infrastructure to do that, just... take... 27%......

They already were #2, and it would be wrong to assert that anything other than TV commercials is the root of Full Tilt being the #2 cardroom.

Full Tilt was no way, no how a "tiny room" until...

Maybe Cake, but Full Tilt was never such a room.

There is no possible way anyone knows what that is.

Non-sequitur. What you just described is not cannibalistic in any sense.




These concepts also are not related. Average life of a player at one cardroom is not the same as lifetime...

Poker games are an ecosystem... predators, prey, fish, sharks, whales, jackals, vultures, carps, lions, insects, foxes, etc. I don't know that all types are needed (I don't see a benefit to bottom...