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Growing Poker Industry Best Bet for Businesses
Poker seems to have exploded into the popular consciousness in the last few months, attracting a wealth of new audiences, players and sponsorship deals. Thanks to shows such as cable TV’s World Poker Tour, Celebrity Poker Showdown and Channel 4’s Late Night Poker series, the game has acquired new found respectability, catapulting it into the realms of popular culture and, therefore, big business.
The public’s imagination has been caught by The World Poker Tour’s encouragement of non-professional players to try their hands, culminating in the appositely named Chris Moneymaker, a 27-year-old accountant from Tennessee, triumphantly walking off with a cool $2.5 million. An illustration of the World Tour’s success level is that the tour has recently signed a deal with NBC to air a special on Super bowl Sunday.
Professional poker players are quickly becoming celebrities. The Hendon Mob: an impeccably suited quartet of seemingly unbeatable players, oozing cinematic charisma and as happy sipping champagne at Ascot as lounging in smoky poker dens. They are the new face of poker: glamorous, enviable, natural celebrities.
But it’s the Internet that really started the poker ball rolling. The growth of online poker sites has been phenomenal over the past few years. Three years ago, the average Internet casino was getting about 300 players on a weeknight. Today it’s more like 25,000. The web has opened the game up to people who would never visit a casino, to a wider adult audience. Now a player in Andorra can challenge a player in Zimbabwe. Many sites offer ‘free money tables’, where they can play and learn without losing a penny.
Investors, of course, are quick to see opportunities in such a burgeoning industry and sponsorship deals abound. Poker is now worth billions of dollars a year. The largest online poker network, Prima Poker, who signed The Hendon Mob for their Prima Poker Tour, know that they are sponsoring the exquisitely cool image of poker – one that cannot fail to help their industry build on the extraordinary success of the past few years.
Too bad Prima is run by a bunch of jackasses that are more concerned with players bowing to meet their demands than they are about player satisfaction and player retention.
That said however; this will surely help their situation. After observing for over a year the shoddy way they run things; they surely need something positive considering the incredible jump they have on all competition by stepping into the Microgaming exposure; they should be a lot more successful than they have been un until now.
my 2 cents
Originally posted by bb1webs
Too bad Prima is run by a bunch of jackasses that are more concerned with players bowing to meet their demands than they are about player satisfaction and player retention.Can you elaborate on this please? I don’t promote poker yet but Prima Poker was high on my list – so obviously I would like to know of any problems that may exist.
I do well with Prima Poker so far. The programs that I promote are the Poker Rooms from Casino Rewards and surprisingly Fortune is doing ok also. In fact I earn 95% of my Fortune income from Poker…
Not really sure how they pissed off BB1…
Hey BB1 What DID happen?
The issue with poker is that the % are preety low and the money tend to come very slowly.
The real nice think is that there may be a chance that poker will be considered as a skill game and then it will not have the CC clearing problems that the gambling indestry has , then it will BOOM !
/Janet
