I’ve all but given up on poker because of the rake back situation and then add to that the fact that most poker rooms make the casino side of this industry look like angels that could do no wrong and you have my attitide towards the whole thing.
heck just try and find enough decent poker rooms with all the ingredients needed to be worthy of promoting and I say to you good luck!
an honest program
enough players – a huge obstacle
doesn’t allow a rake back – is there anybody out there left?
hasn’t added some kind of bullshit term where you have to send a quota of players in a set time limit or you forfeit the players you already have signed with that program (in good faith mind you that they would stand by their word and pay lifetime commission) cough=partypoker
and that doesn’t have some kind of aura where a growing number of people suspect that the Random Number Generator isn’t quite as random as its suppose to be; favoring the weaker player thus causing an abnormal amount of bad beats. cough=partypoker again.
whether the above is true or not; enough people are talking about it. I know I can win other places but cannot at PP, and since I only play premium hands I expect to get my share and more of bad beats … but at PP its rediculous.
so even if PP were to change all their “less than aff friendly” terms … well lets put it this way.. I’ve begun pulling them down for the combination of the above but the bad beat problem alone is enough to scare me away.
And don’t even get me started on the rake back situation with PP. Do they or don’t they? they can’t even seem to answer that … truthfully anyway.
Then there was pacific poker, (I think, I get it mixed up with a couple others) but I am pretty sure it was pacific that had the guy who’s account was hacked into and he contacted the poker room telling them to freeze the account and then long story short is the hacker re-entered and proceded to lose the other half of the guy’s $3k, which the poker room never accepted responsibility for ……
geez. and these are suppose to be professional places that want me to sign my name next to? forget it!
Its truly a shame that a game that has grown so much in popularity has had to be tainted so heavily with so many bad elements from so many different directions.
I suspect time will come when poker isn’t any longer as popular as it now is enjoying and IMHO the rake back sites though they have made their money, will in the end be the tool of their own demise. … at least in respect to what they enjoyed in their “glory days”.
the question then becomes was it worth it? I cannot answer that though right now I’m certain they would say yes. Ask them again in 2 or 3 years after the rush has past and they are making about 1/3 of what they could have been making if they’d not decided to cut everyone’s throat… including their own.