Update on bwin Loyalty Program

Earlier I wrote about a radical change to the bwin (and thus entire Ongame Network) loyalty program codenamed Essence. It’s not unusual that when I take a less than enthusiastic view on things I’m contacted by folks from the room to “explain” their side and hopefully get me to come around to their line of …

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The Carnival of Poker

While doing my July Time Machine post I ran across a bunch of posts I did about hosting a Carnival of Poker and it got me to thinking about hosting them again. The idea is rather simple yet people try to make it much more complicated because they think there’s a catch. There isn’t. Basically, …

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bwin’s New Rake Calculation

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 …

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Why Many Online Poker Rooms Are Failing

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 …

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