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billrini.com - 3/11/2009

Warning: Eight Tips on Pitching Your Idea to an Online Poker Room

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As a poker room manager I get pitched a lot of ideas. I’m sort of used to it because during the heady dotcom days I worked for AOL and then later for eToys . When I would go to industry conferences and mixers every dotcom millionaire wannbe would try to corner me and tell me the idea that ...

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Book Larnin'
Poker Perambulation — ... Bill Rini talks about the scam artists that flocked to him over the years. I imagine many or most would settle for or prefer a stock market infomercial. I am not saying all these poker teaching sites that have sprung up are pure scam. The advice is, I'm sure, excellent. But, it is the same info that you can garner from most of the books out there. More important, years from now the vast majority of those players will be at the level they would have been without it. ...

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Riding the F Train — ... At first blush I was less than impressed. I don't care about team jerseys, which come included with your buy-in; I'd rather see that money put in the prize pool. The team-scoring concept, while a somewhat novel way of potentially spreading the prize pool around a bit, seems gimmicky; here I simply refer you to Bill Rini's excellent post Eight Tips on Pitching Your Idea to an Online Poker Room. The price point of the tournament ($550 per player) seems high enough to drive away three casual players but low enough not to interest the marketable "big name" pros. ...