On yesterday's stream Eddie said Poker should and will be coming to stake some time soon.
He didn't mention a specific time though.
I think that's a great idea. They basically get risk free money through collecting the rake. Having a super big player base this would be a HUGE opportunity for stake and for their players.
For people with skill at poker that might become a lucrative site. Many degen gamblers that just lost with casino games and sports might "try their luck" at poker, fishing time.
Question is though, will they make their own poker software/network where only stake players will be able to play or will they join a network like ipoker, ggpoker, 888 and so on.
My best guess that they will keep it in house because KYC is not mandatory. Some abusers might want to run up some amounts on sports/casino and the chip dump it to somebody on a different site through shared network.
Anyway, I think it's a nice idea. Poker with crypto still is WAY too small.
Let's hope they can create a fun and safe environment with a lot of different poker variations like NLH, PLO, Stud games, Chinese Poker and so on.
Hopefully they are asking the players for their input when creating this! And please, make some moderate rake.
Well this is a really nice move, I am not a great poker player but I do like it but for some reason poker has never enjoyed the popularity in this market that it deserves, now one of the biggest casinos we have is setting their sights on poker, if they are doing so then we can speculate that this is the case because they are seeing the opportunity to position themselves as the leaders of the poker market of cryptocurrencies without too much of a problem, I hope they are right as it would be great that poker became popular and I could play at any time and there were some poker tables available to do so.