A question to all the people who are saying "no" to rakeback. Why would you say no to rakeback? Do you even know what rakeback is? If you don't know what rakeback is, rakeback is when the poker site gives back to you part of the rake that they take from the pots that you contribute to. Rakeback is the site giving back to you a portion of the tax/fee they charge for each hand played. Why would you not want that? Rakeback is pretty standard for poker sites. And no rollrover/play-through to receive rakeback that you earn from playing is also the standard. At least it's the standard for any site that wants to attract and keep players.
So again, why would you say "no" to rakeback? That's just weird. Rakeback is like the second most import thing, next to fast withdrawals and security/integrity of their games, of course.
Honestly I put the question of rakeback out there for this specific purpose. I wanted to see how many people would respond to free money and freerolls more than rakeback.
You are absolutely correct Junko. A real poker player would indeed prefer rakeback any day of the week, rather than getting 1mbtc free. But the question has to be asked. Its a kind of way for me to fully understand what I'm up against when opening this poker room. btc poker seems so different to traditional sites, and that actually has nothing to do with fiat or crypto currencies.
In regards to BetCoin, I cant give my input as I haven't played there. But from what I hear, they offered players promos and bonus' they couldn't stand by. That's why I'm properly doing my research, as I prefer to offer less, but stick to my word. So we'll have to see how this plays out.
What is for absolutely sure, I'm building the rakeback structure according to blind. $0.01/0.02 will receive a very low perhaps no rakeback. and as you climb the blinds you receive more rakeback - we are coding this now inside the actual table, so you can see your rakeback accumulated per session.
@OP: Regarding the question of rakeback, yes, it is an eye opener for sure and made me super curious. Very interesting, indeed. With the attrition rate that bitcoin poker/gambling sites have had over the years - and as you pointed out, the problems, issues, flaws and mistakes other poker sites such as betcoin.ag have had in the recent and distant past - it would be a prudent thing for a new start up to do thier market reseach as you are doing now so as to give themselves the best chance for success.
Anyway, I wish you and your site success and look forward to seeing what your poker site has to offer and trying it out when it opens. It's always good for players to have multiple options as far as places to play and just good for bitcoin poker in general.
Using my post to hijack OP's thread in order to promote your scam agenda is such a reach, it's laughable - not to mention, shows what an utter and shameless scumbag you are.
Absolutely laughable to see how you prefer to make 10,000 nonsense posts instead of simply put the proof of your scam accusation on the table and get 5 BTC at once:
Get 5 BTC for proof who Game Protect scammed and for how much?After the introduction of eking657's poker brand, the publicly proven
Betcoin.ag scam! will lose even more customers!
@ game-protect: Just perusing the multitude of bullshittery on your website should be more than enough to convince anyone who possesses even just a shred of intelligence that you and your operation is just one big scam. Just because people aren't fool enough to fall for your bullshit doesn't make you any less of a scammer. A shitty scammer is still a scammer.
And once again, you show how clueless you are when it comes to poker players. Most real poker players are happy to try out new sites, as well as play regularly on various different poker sites. Most real poker players, as well as poker sites that are confident in their product, aren't afraid of competition and welcome different and competing poker sites. Multiple co-existing successful bitcoin poker sites are good for players, good for the different bitcoin poker sites and good for bitcoin poker in general. You wouldn't understand that, obviously, with all your pretending to be a player advocate and your ulterior motives.