I wonder what the difference would be in the average length of total playing time for a poker player versus an online casino gambler.
I think affiliates who promote poker rooms have two distinct drawbacks:
1) The rakeback issue – rooms that offer rakeback are causing affiliates to steal our players, and so even though we get a new player, his status is always in doubt.
2) The large rise of competiting poker rooms – with so many online poker rooms to choose from, a player is likely to try out many of them. Plus there are different levels of compeition and juicy games in each. For most of us, this means that having someone at, say, Party Poker, doesn’t mean that this player will be spending all of his/her time there.
I would be willing to bet that online casino gamblers might have a taste for variety, but might not switch around as much as the average poker player.