You know, I’m starting to get a vague impression that you don’t like rakeback :tongue:
ALL rev share rooms are potentially rakeback rooms. Seriously, you name a poker room, and within 5 days I can have an account set up with rakeback. Some make it easier than others (some make it much easier) but if a poker room pays rev share, those payments can be used to give rakeback.
I’d be very interested in seeing if any evidence you have of this or if it is just a paranoid fantasy.
Rocketfly – ever since rakeback exploded like it did, rooms have been forced to do better on the player rewards front. Why? Because serious players are starting to learn what their play is worth. Unless the poker rooms start to treat thier players as valued customers and not the enemy, the only loyalty we have (especially the medium to high volume players who use poker for a source of income and are the main customers of rakeback affiliates) is financial.
Serious poker players are 90%+ mercenary plain and simple. There is the occassional flash of loyalty (in my case I play at Stars outside bonus time and without rakeback because they are very good all round) and spite (in my case I no longer play at crypto because they screwed up with my PIN numbers when I moved house and tied up 600 pounds of mine for several months) but mostly it’s “where can I make the most money for the time I play?” A big factor in this is bonuses and rakeback.
Rakeback is here to stay, like it or not. Hopefully rooms start formalising the programs and bringing them in house as much as possible. That will make the industry cleaner (as will sites like rakebackreview.com). But as long as there is Revshare, there will be rakeback.