Topic: Poker coming to stake.com in the near future ! - page 2. (Read 1361 times)

The poker market is also heavily centralized. In most countries, the power lays within few entities, and to enter their market means a very large amount of hoops, networking, etc. I do not think that Stake have this kind of weight in any sector...and while they might release something interesting, it will probably be inferior once the vale of excitement has gone.

Maybe, if their reputation was not so damaged and their image was in a much more positive light...I don't think that's how it will play out though. Just by observing the business during my visits to this board and the scam accusation board, I think that mostly their existing members will play out of excitement, then the concept will bust. We will see, if it gets released.

Exactly my thought.
After my level up, which is most likely next week, I will become inactive as well.

As soon as they offer poker I will give it a shot and see if there is money to be made but until then I place my bets at pinnacle since the odds are considerably higher there.
These micro bonuses now don't even the missed out money because of the low odds.

Anyway, maybe we can make a raffle, haha. When will stake officially offer poker on their main site. 

Unless they don't want to handle it on their own.

They need to partnership with provider-game example like (EVO-Games) while the table and everything is being setup for them and that's the reason why these plan really take the time. IMO, Eddie & Stake team don't want to opened or handle the game by their own because to much things to do for the set up system they just can easily do partnership with other provider.

The only problem, right now we don't have any live-game poker and to set up these things required a build from scratch. I hope these poker table are live-game not just a machine things.

Since I am not an active Stake user I guess they will not see me until the next year, if they add poker...

Valid points. The global economic meltdown this year hit them hard too due to which they cut many important bonuses here and there and they aren't resolving complaints quickly like before as you mentioned.

Yeah. I'm not holding my breath for it this year since they might eventually launch it next year or later.

Yeah I also found it strange it is taking them such a long time.
But according to Eddie on stream they "want to do it right, that's why it takes time" .
Maybe they are too busy with all their kick stuff so stake and updates for it take a second seat.

But since they at least said some sort of update now, that they will start and test it at stake.us, I guess it is now that far in the future to see the final product. But do I know it? Sure not! With stake we never know!

Getting into the poker scene requires a lot of skin in the industry, you can't just set something up and go. They probably got roadblocked with foreseeable marketing and regulatory issues. Not to mention, Stake is facing a lot of complaints from customers at the moment and the rate of complains does not look like it's slowing down. It seems that they are facing bigger problems than tying to tap the poker market.

Your points are valid, but not all of those active players are interested in poker which is why it's still risky though Stake can definitely afford to take that risk considering how rich and popular they are.

What I find odd is that @Ahoy posted about it way back in May and there hasn't been a single update about it since then which makes me think that they probably abandoned those plans.

Well, you have to remember something, good things take time to wait, maybe stake.com has been preparing something very good that we can all love and can make a difference, personally I would think that things are about how to do the best job Well , stake.com has a Guarantee on that , so when we make a small break, we can realize that at stake.com things are of fairly high quality and better things can be given when we think that they can be done? Since they can face many things to stay up to date, we could say that each person Assigned a special job to this casino is not doing it for the sake of doing it, they are not doing it to fulfill what they do for all of us, so you see that when things become They do the world's greatest care and Attention , because they look good, and I think or imagine that they are creating a Platform where many things can be assigned, including making lathes 24 hours a day and Being in traffic , Although people who Want to play for free also have options to do it and even to win, as well as the software that betcoinpoker Had, what was Amazing for me was a wonder.

This is something that we cannot lose sight of, I don't think they are Taking so long just because it is a simple thing, for me things will be much bigger , because personally I would think that stake.com could be doing something well done that Many players Worldwide will fall in love with what they are doing and will obviously have it assigned to stake.us because they cannot leave them so helpless, I think things can turn out for the better, I have not seen a job poorly done by this casino , which for me is one of the largest in the world and for that reason they are so successful currently, in this order of ideas, I imagine that when they launch this wonder , only other casinos will try to copy the system, because everything works like that There is no other way , the Competition is Always that way.

If they decide to collaborate with big poker network such as ggpoker, they have bigger chance to survive with the poker.
Lets say Stake prefer to create their own poker network, I think it is not a bad idea since they have big player base already now and it is a good start.
Most other sites that failed in the past are mostly new sites that come with poker game only and started like from ZERO so it is reasonable if most of them failed.
Betcoin and fortunejak or may betnomi, these 3 sites did try to have poker but all of them also failed although they have player base but I'm sure the number of active players are not as big as what we can see in Stake.

I wouldn't say that GG is only based on fiat. They have many methods for deposit and withdrawal, including cryptocurrencies like BTC, ETH, USDT, and USDC. So even if Stake can launch a poker room and it becomes successful, it will still be very problematic for them to compete with a giant like GG. I mean, Stake is unlikely to be able to offer anything special in terms of poker that is not available on GG at the moment.

      -  That's fantastic and will benefit high stakes poker players as well. The stakes can still be watched to see if gamblers will appreciate it or how many players will enter the games they add to their platform, so it's likely still in the experimental stage.

In light of the fact that poker is now quite popular both locally and worldwide, I appear to have noticed that it is not as noisy as it formerly was. So, in my opinion, that may perhaps increase the selling of stakes.

Several crypto gambling sites tried attracting poker lovers, but failed primarily due to bad execution and losses. Stake will probably end up in a similar situation even if they actually decide to add poker later.

I don't think it's happening anytime soon because the site isn't exactly in its best state due to bonus cuts, rising negative criticism etc.

While I agree with most of what you say, I kind of wonder how true our thinking actually is. I get bored from time to time and used to explore Twitch streamers, now Kick streamers since certain sites were banned on the platform.

If there are not thousands of users interested in crypto, then why are there 10s of thousands of viewers on some of these streamers like Adin Ross or Trainwrecks? Why would sites waste their money hiring these big named streamers, or having sponsorships with sports personas, or even waste money paying for advertising?

I think there are more people interested in crypto than we think and we just have to stay vigilant in spreading the word. Get people engaged and show them that crypto is here to stay. That along with new ways to use their crypto(such as poker) will be the way to get more and more interested in crypto.

I hope this launch happens soon and I hope it goes well. I feel like poker is much easier to make money on vs all the other games a casino may offer.

While I would love to see a truly successful crypto poker site, I'm not sure there are enough people around the world who could make it as popular as something like PokerStars or GGPoker. Those sites are successful, having thousands of players even at the low points of the day, but the fact they are fiat based just gives them a much higher audience. The fact is many people still do not have any interest in crypto nor want to mix it into the gambling mix. Those that do have crypto usually have it with the intention of holding on long term or using it for a particular purpose besides gambling. It will also take a huge effort, which will be greatly helped by their existing player base they can direct there, in order to reach that self sustaining critical mass of players.

Not really

It depends on where you play poker though. I've probably only seen 1 tournament with overlay prizepool in ggpoker network out of 100 tournaments. Most of the time, the tournaments action on there is pretty packed


Cash games and tournaments goes side by side, you cant just leave one out just because its not profitable. It would kill the point of having poker in your own site if you are leaving one of it out. Anyway, Stake as a company has a pretty high valuation though so they probably wouldnt mind losing money for the first 3 months if they arent going to make money from poker tournaments in case if they have one

Actually I am not sure if there will be poker tournaments, at least in the beginning.
Since stake is so money hungry and want to squeeze their customers they will prefer if there is a lot cash game action. Collecting cash game rake brings much more money than tournament fees. So I think their focus will strongly be on cg.
But of course I can be totally wrong here. We never know what stake is doing. Maybe they listen to the community, that's the best they could do.

Poker used to be one of the games that received a lot of recognition at first, but somewhere along the line, the market dropped significantly to the point that several poker tournaments that were hosted all happened to go in a particular direction, with low participation, but also that doesn't mean that the tournament was left unattended to in some cases players who want to take parts have a different time schedule.
In the long run, poker still remains one of the most popular games that many players will always find interesting at whatever point in time and also having the mindset of maximum excitement from poker games so its development into stake is a great move that will push for further higher traffic to stake.

It would be a nice thing if it was actually added to stake.com in addition to stake.us because I also don't want to use a VPN to try the game, at least it will look fair and comprehensive for all users to access the game, in the end I Wait, come there too, I like playing poker, especially poker tournaments, I would be happy if this was held soon so I could play this poker game just to win and make money.

Obviously this will be interesting news where maybe all other poker players will be happy to join this game at stake.com, after all if there are lots of user requests it is impossible for them to refuse it, because service to their users is of course a priority for them and I probably one of which supports this is being held immediately

Oh my gosh, why does it take so long to add poker on their website? Is it really that hard process to add poker? Almost every fiat casino has it and I believe Stake's team is not a team full of juniors, there will be many people from working experience that have worked on various casino product, including poker. Or why do they need to test it at .us website and then add on .com website? I hope that testing process won't last for a long time because I am really itching to play it on crypto casino.
By the way, you suggested me gg poker two weeks ago and I enjoy it. I think Stake has to hurry up or they will lose me