Is a no rake site inevitable?
What is the future of the online poker industry?
Is it inevitable that the #1 site of the future will be a no rake site?
Heck, will poker sites ever start competing on rake? Few sites even attempt to compete on rake. I can only think of a few that have -- ZeroRake, ChoicePoker, didn't Nutz as well? -- and they've all failed or are struggling.
I've been wondering about this for a few weeks ever since ZeroRake spammed these forums. I'd love it if there were a popular no rake site, but I'm unsure that there ever will be one. It's obviously better to have very poor players than to have no rake. This is the commodity that PartyPoker has right now.
But if the fish pond ever starts drying up, then I think that would increase the possibility of a no rake site becoming popular.
And at low limits a no rake site wouldn't have to have that bad players to be more profitable for a good player.
My guess? In about 2 years, one of the norake sites will start to catch on.
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