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.

[Prowler]

LOL!

This has to be one of the funniest strings I've read in ages!

Thankyou!

[sprint3000us]

They wouldn't be playing for you after couple of months. You dumb ass.

[JonLines]

Why do you all think they would start up on their own?

Assume they are averaging $500 a month. You pay them $300 a month, this is more than 3 times their previous earnings, why would they risk such a highly paid, and risk free job, for a crack at going out alone?

Think of all the people you know who know they could start up on their own in their line of business, do they? Of course they don't, they have children to feed, mortgages to pay. If these people were the kind of people to take risks they probably wouldn't be the people earning sub $100 a month.

They are math wizards, not entrepreneurs.

I think this is a great idea, anyone fancy joining me in buying a warehouse in India?

[irongarden]

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Assume they are averaging $500 a month. You pay them $300 a month, this is more than 3 times their previous earnings, why would they risk such a highly paid, and risk free job, for a crack at going out alone?

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Don't underestimate the power of human greed. As soon as one of them is successful, you'll lose all of them.

[Shaman]

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Assume they are averaging $500 a month. You pay them $300 a month, this is more than 3 times their previous earnings, why would they risk such a highly paid, and risk free job, for a crack at going out alone?

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If they are only making $500/month multi-tabling at 4-8, they're not worth it. They should be making $40/hour playing 8 tables (that's $5 per table - 63% of a big bet)at this level. At 40 hours per week, that would be 6k per month. Pay them 3% or $180, which is already higher than what they already make. And promise them that they will get 20% of what they will have earned for you after 4 to 8 million hands played, sort of like a performance-based long-term stock option. This will keep them committed to you and at the same time serve as motivation to play well.

After you have paid them the 20% that they earned after 4 to 8 million hours working for you, they will be relatively rich in their very poor countries and would probably stop playing for you. The witholding of 20% is critical in order for you not to be screwed. Remember, you are taking all of the risks.

[oscark]

This idea has already been tried. I know two different sets of people who opened something similar to what you described. And for some of the reasons you all have thought of and for some you haven't, both operations failed.

[gergery]

The laws of Economics and Competitive Strategy would send this to a quick death

[Trainwreck]

Where do I see the chess champions that make under $100 a month statistics?
Sounds like something pulled out from someone's hindquarters, made me laugh though.

I have always heard that programmers got heavily outsourced to India and they make 6 or 7 bucks an hour there, apparently minimal wage here wonderful elsewhere, pretty sick!

>TW<

[asswasp]

Easy. Just become a poker site affiliate such that you get a percentage of their rake. Then go to india and hand out flyers.