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1) acquire genuinely new players (and do this more cost-efficiently than the poker sites can do themselves through normal marketing channels)
2) acquire players that...

Hi Karim,

1) You are claiming that we are using a CPA-abuse model in order to maximize our revenue. This is not true. The majority of our revenue is actually on revenue share, and a lot of free...

Hi Karim,

I think you are missing the main point.

We don't want everybody on a even-footing. (how would that actually be possible? Also, I'm not to keen on socialism :))

We want parasitic...

1) On a site that allows affiliate based rakeback, the vast majority of rake is already coming through affiliates as the top 10% of rakers usually do 80+% of the rake and they usually will be on...

1) Some new replies to the overall debate on ecology can be found here: Poker Ecology: Why it matters to a Winning Player - Page 4 - PokerStrategy.com -- Two Plus Two Poker Forums (Want to avoid...

Also, with regards to affiliate based rakeback, the poker room can do it itself at 0 extra cost. The money saved could easily go to the players.

In addition to that, if the room does it itself,...

@Alan:
How would it be possible for a room to administer an affiliate program but not to give rakeback directly to players?

A simple flat or tiered rakeback system is the easiest thing in the...

I have just found a perfect example to illustrate the point of discussion, but also to show that what happens on the affiliate basis can also happen on the skin within a network basis. See here.

I think that's why it is even more important that reward schemes are centralized and apply to all players, in particular the low end recreational players that won't be able to search the internet for...

One of the core reasons that the big brand did not succeed in the Crypto logic was because they were - as everybody else - paid on MGR, but could not successfully get an ROI on their campaigns...

Hi Bill,

I think you actually give a perfect example for what is also "wrong" with rakeback from an ecosystem point of view, and Full Tilt is probably by far the best example.

One of the core...

I think it's very important for this discussion to distinguish between two things:

1) Sending traffic to a poker site that would have gotten there anyways.
2) Sending a stream of traffic that...

Hi Bill / thefarang,

I just read your great blog post on the matter, here's my feedback:

1) You are 100% right that we look at the issue to narrowly, as optimizing search engines for site...