bwin recently sent out this email to affiliates: Dear Affiliate Partner! bwin is pleased to inform you that a new algorithm called “Essence” will be introduced on Thursday, 15.07.2010. This algorithm will finally introduce a system where the player’s overall contribution to the poker ecology becomes a major component to its healthy balance. From this …
Awhile back I wrote an article titled, Why Affiliates Will Always Trump Online Poker Rooms, the received a lot emails from poker room employees and some side-discussions with affiliates. I guess it was a self-selecting group but most of the people who wrote me agreed with me but couldn’t do so in public. One of …
In Europe us Americans are seen as a joke when it comes to soccer. In fact, I can’t even begin to count the number of times someone has said “Football, oh, sorry mate, I mean soccer,” and then burst out into hilarious laughter. I guess on the flip side it goes to show that most …
I was reading a piece on Bluff’s website* about the “World Series Effect” on online poker sites. Generally, during the WSOP many sites temporarily lose some of their best players who opt for live games. It’s not a huge drop off as the online poker market tends to follow the cycle below (the numbers are …
Back in April I shared my thoughts on Betsson’s strategy of opening a separate room on Entraction and offering rakeback. Now they have Betsson and Betsson Euro Tables. The Betsson Euro tables are Euro denominated (surprise) and on the Entraction network which apparently is allowing skins to offer rakeback to their players. In my previous …