Live poker rooms are slowly re-opening. Many people have missed the live poker rooms, and many eager players want to touch those cards and feel those chips again.
Due to the coronavirus, the Manila poker scene has been closed for quite some time. With the rooms and houses now slowly opening. Will online poker rooms suffer?
Will online poker rooms be affected?
Some players are predicting that online poker will suddenly take a big hit. It will be affected, but it may not be that big.
However, before discussing it. We must define a very important thing. The difference between poker apps and poker sites.
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Differentiating poker apps and poker sites.
It was a few years ago that an app hit the market with a different approach to online poker. They promoted themselves as a play app hence some of them are allowed in google play.
Players do not directly deposit to the company. For example, some apps charge you a specific amount like diamonds to run tables. The poker app in itself only provides the app.
Poker Apps
Buy-ins do not go into the apps. It is by nature a private club.
Poker sites
Buy-ins directly go to the site. Every game is run by the site.
Apps are more like you are renting the table and you can do whatever you want. While a poker site is running a poker room.
Trust, the biggest factor
Poker sites invest largely in creating a good image. That image is the one that carries the poker sites.
While poker apps, the trust is not in the app but on the person who facilitates the club.
Because a club owner or Union head is someone you know. There is trust. He may be a friend or a relative or recommended by someone you trust.
However, with a poker site, you are trusting the company itself. Hence you look at reviews about the product.
Note: that is why it was easier for some apps to recruit players. The club owner is the one who holds the money and also the endorser of the product. While former owners of clubs and unions are having more difficulty to recruit when they shift to a site. The money still goes to the site.
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When live rooms re-opens
We are still in a pandemic
Not many people will venture out. Not many will come out and play. More people will choose their own safety than being able to play poker.
Limited seats
Currently, only Pokerstars Live Manila is open in Manila. The blinds they offer are 25-50 PHP and above.
Due to limited resources allocated by the casino. the priority will be the higher blinds.
Convenience
You still need to travel, while apps and sites are very accessible.
Promotions
Live poker sites are limited to the promotion they can create. Promotions are based on the number of players that will play.
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Will Online poker rooms be affected?
Yes, it will, but it will be mostly the small club owners or smaller poker sites that will be affected.
This is especially true to online sites and clubs that focus on getting live poker players to play on their site. There are people who preferred live to online.
Once the Live poker room opens. Live players will go back to playing live.
It really depends now on a site owner or a club owner to mitigate the effect.
How they are affected will be based on what they do starting now to run their club or site.
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