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Old 11-18-2007, 11:29 AM
Benjamin Benjamin is offline
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Default Re: Zero Rake Poker Business plan

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We had/have this site. It was called WSEX. It's a site attached to a sportsbook, with no rake (yes yes blah blah blah contributed is different, who cares; certainly the fish don't know the difference), no hand histories to speak of, and also nobody playing on it. Except for that bot ring, which, hilariously, turned out to be the sole thing keeping the games running in the first place.

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WPEX was initially successful in drawing crowds, fish galore, with it's 100% rakeback. The site was overwhelmed with traffic, exposing numerous severe software and server flaws and weaknesses, to the point that playing there was a nightmare. The blind bug let people flat out cheat, the software would fold your hand, even if you had a legitimiate disconnect, hand history delivery was pathetic, etc, ....

We will never know what would have happened if WPEX had been prepared with good software and hardware from the beginning, but I am sure they wouldn't be dead now.
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