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How hard would it be to get a poker web site up and running the the US ? Or can you even do this I know it is hard for US player's to get like in alot of Poker site .How hum would it coast and how coold somkeone start this ? I got the money and wanted to do this for a while can you help ?
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Err let me get this clear? You want to start a Pokerroom? I think that's kinda hard on your own The software only costs you 10k. But you can't possibly run it on your own.
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And if you were able to start your own pokeroom how do you expect to compete with the big sites like fulltilt ultimatebet and so on when they are endorsed and advertised by professionals. They spend milllions on getting there room into the spotlight , its immposible to compete.
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Ya I see your point but start small and just work on getting bigger little by little . US players don't have but 3-4 Poker Site's to play at . And alot of them the cards fall funny if you know what I mean . Right now I play at some poker room with 2-3 of my friend we site at our net work of 6 computer's and we do not to bad it is kinda of unfair we have 6 sit's out of 10
------------ Ya I see your point but start small and just work on getting bigger little by little . US players don't have but 3-4 Poker Site's to play at . And alot of them the cards fall funny if you know what I mean . Right now I play at some poker room with 2-3 of my friend we site at our net work of 6 computer's and we do not to bad it is kinda of unfair we have 6 sit's out of 10
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Hey there Zon, welcome to the BankrollMob Forum. Regarding your question, it seems that you probably don´t have financial issues, which is the first and most important step towards having your own poker room. Like Avalonn stated aboved, you will need to invest on the development of your own software, which is believed to be the most expensive part of the investment as a whole. There are several companies who do this, for the right amount, of course.
Bear in mind that there are other aspects such as programming, web design, uploading, hosting accounts, domain name purchasing, marketing, legal concerns etc..
I don´t have any greater details, but it´s a start. If I find something more detailed, I will post it ok? Good luck.
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So if you had the money to start this where or who would you talk to frist about getting the poker software to run a pokerroom . I not realy worried about about web hosting and all of the that part is the easy part
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I am a little outside my field of expertise here, but you might try and e-mail someone at www.bmm.com.au regarding this issue. They are involved with "performing an in-depth analysis of the randomness of the output of the RNG, and its implementation in the shuffling of the cards on PokerStars". So they probably can help you and guide you in the right direction, maybe by recommending you to a good gaming software development company.
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Thank you I will e-mail them and see what they say .I realy want to do this I make good money right now playing poker in the $500 and up sin&go games and kind of want to put my money in good use .
Posted by Zon: Ya I see your point but start small and just work on getting bigger little by little . US players don't have but 3-4 Poker Site's to play at . And alot of them the cards fall funny if you know what I mean . Right now I play at some poker room with 2-3 of my friend we site at our net work of 6 computer's and we do not to bad it is kinda of unfair we have 6 sit's out of 10
------------ Ya I see your point but start small and just work on getting bigger little by little . US players don't have but 3-4 Poker Site's to play at . And alot of them the cards fall funny if you know what I mean . Right now I play at some poker room with 2-3 of my friend we site at our net work of 6 computer's and we do not to bad it is kinda of unfair we have 6 sit's out of 10
are you trying to say that each of you plays at two computers each, and you are all playing together, you do know that this is beaking multiple of hte srevice agreements that you have signed when you sign up to a site, if this is the case i dont think you should be telling anyone in the first place and secondly i dont think that BRM would really appreciate you choosing here to do it, im sure the sites wouldnt want to offer BRM no deposit bonuses for their members if they thought there members were colluders and breaking service agreements
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Starting a poker room takes quite an investment. Than you are going to have to attract customers and offer them something.
Posted by Zon: I play at some poker room with 2-3 of my friend we site at our net work of 6 computer's and we do not to bad it is kinda of unfair we have 6 sit's out of 10
Whoa, that means you have multiple accounts? How many times did you do this? I'm surprised the pokerroom didn't catch you..what pokerroom is it?
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actually my friends brother is looking to start his own site or poker room hes talked to lawyers and everything as well so so far he seems to be on the right track mayb a bigger push to get him to do it faster butany more info i get from him ill let you no..
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Ya thank's xxxitaliaxx13 how long has he been working on it ? I would love to get the thing started and up and running in say 3-6 months .Not sure how long it would take.
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hmm, i dont think its such a good idea to start one now, there are so many out there, it would be hard to start your own, and make it succussfull, five years ago, i would say this is an excellent idea
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i uno i think if you started your own site and got it going with bankrollmob then i could see it getting up there fairly quick..
but hes been working on it for a while but just half assed ya no? not fully putting himself towards it
but if you worked at it and really wanted it, i think 3-6 months is tight but very doable.. you have to get in touch with the city and etc to make sure your allowed to and everything legal
Posted by Zon: we all have our account on our own laptop some time's we just play together just like some people go to a friends house and play online games
the difference is going to play together at online games like warcraft 3 or the like is fine because thats the point of them, in poker it is expressly forbidden. you sign a contract saying your not going to, so it is not an analagous situation at all
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I want to thank thefodz for the www.bmm.com.au it told me what I needed to hear NO I can not set up a Online Poker Site in the US i would have to move over sea's so thank that did help me .
The software only costs you 10k. But you can't possibly run it on your own.
