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Poker is not casino… OK, got it. 
Now, I’ve been working under the assumption that we were all talking about poker.
It’s players who win or lose money … not the room … and for a player to continually be playing and generating rake – then I assume that they are actually winning or at least treading water.
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So they’ll play on – hopefully indefinately – or until making money becomes boring.
Alright, so let me get this straight – the longer a player plays, the more hands they play; the more rake they generate which in turn a percentage is taken out and given to the affiliate. In terms of your 59 player, $7k example – Your top 2 players generated half the rake. So does that mean that they played for an extraordinary amount of time in a given day/week/month? How long did it take for you to generate the rake?
My main concern is that with all the hand-waving that’s been going on between companies over affiliate contracts, the long-term prospects of retaining your “life time” players does not look good. Unless these “life time” contracts between affiliate and their players are upheld consistently, the integrity and usefulness of these contracts will become less important and more like a joke.
Do you have any sources to indicate those are close approximations?
:allears: — Where are all you poker affiliates?