Last week, back from my eight week semi-hiatus, I began attacking my long to-write blog list. But as often is these days, time forces me to go with the flow and the flow decided to soak a subject quite far down on that list. It’s not a big issue in itself, but it is indicative [...]
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Mar 28th
Making Forced Player Segregation Work
Many online poker sites now have a profound understanding of how online poker players‘ play relationships affect their bottom lines. One player’s actions affect not only other players’ spending power but also the margin, or rake revenue per deposited dollar, on those players’ spend. So who plays who where for what matters. The old doctrine [...]
Feb 4th
Design for Ten – how to prosper in a limited liquidity poker market
With the chances of online poker being regulated on a federal level anytime soon in the US slowly slipping away, concerns associated with operating an online poker room in a market where player liquidity may be scarce have resurfaced with renewed strength. The fact that this fear likely fuels the seemingly increased desire amongst state [...]
Nov 2nd
Pruning the apple tree – a Story Gap strategy
In my last blog I introduced the concept of the Story Gap (required reading!) It’s only recently that I’ve begun framing some of my thoughts around this concept, but the ideas and findings that led me to adopt such a view go back four to five years. In 2008 (maybe 2007, can’t remember) I and Daniel Svärd [...]
Oct 26th
The money is in the story Fool!
Surprise! The online poker industry is in a dismal shape if you’re not Pokerstars. This stunning news was delivered two days ago by Jeff @RivalSchoolX Hwang in a piece called “Sorry, Mr. Online Poker. Nobody Cares About You” on The Motley Fool. PPA’s Rich Muny called it “thought provoking” on twitter and it’s caused quite [...]