Outsourcing Poker

[TStoneMBD]

heres what you do:

you get a programmer to make you a skin for party that does not show what limit a player is playing at.

you get a really cheap laptop and set up network restrictions so that the laptop cannot be used for anything other than your party poker skin and twoplustwo.com or whatnot. this way they are not capable of researching how to get into online poker themselves with their own bankrolls. they probably dont have access to the internet from a source other than your laptop anyway, and would have to purchase their own computers in order to install their own poker software.

setup radmin on the laptop. radmin is a program (short for remote administrator.) you can get the program off download.com. its a application that you run on a computer, and you can access that computer from anywhere in the world. you are able to control the mouse along with anything that the person who is using the computer can control.

give the person in india the laptop and you can monitor his play by using radmin, while making sure that he is playing at the right table stakes. you could have the party skin have restrictions as to what limits it allows. for instance, you could create a party skin for each limit online, from 1/2 to 30/60. you could require a password for the person on your laptop to open any of these applications, and as the players progress in their abilities you slowly unvail the passwords so that they can climb the limit ladders.

now if you have an issue of trust with your indian players and are worried that they will steal your laptops, you can set up a storefront in india where you have security camers monitoring the area, with somebody working at the store to make sure that the laptops are not stolen. have your players come to the shop to play on your laptops there.

if you dont want to spend the money for a programmer to do this for you, or you find that it is simply not possible to do this without the source code of party poker, you can still install a normal party poker application on the laptops. it will be a long time until your players decide that its more sensible for them to build their own bankrolls and play for themselves as they would be forced to purchase their own computers.