My club owner - He runs a club that I play with in another app (PPPoker if you've heard of it) told me that the players here are more fishy.
what is the draw of these poker clubs? the whole web of affiliates and intermediaries and worrying about shady club owners---why bother with all that?
i get it from the club owners' point of view. they get a cut of their players rake, so of course they're gonna shill it. but what is the draw as a player? is that it---you're trying to draw in players for your club?
PPPoker seems to be plagued by similar allegations as pokertime:
https://professionalrakeback.com/affiliates-and-players-screwed-by-pppoker-over-bot-accusationsi just don't get it......
The reasoning is cause most of the players here are chinese recreational players, not those sharks that dominate all of the online poker scene elsewhere.
bovada/ignition are good for soft games. no HUDs (or at least they are actively blocked), and lots of sports betters too.
The idea is that the players on these platforms are much more recreational than bovada/ignition/pstars/888poker. I've played online poker for many years and for the past 3-4 years it's all about game selecting as the games get tougher.
Let's take a platform like PPPoker for example - if your club owner gets caught or decides to run with the money, you're screwed. But on pokertime you are the one in control of your funds, u don't need to settle through an intermediary etc that's why I prefer this site.
I hope I'm not coming off as 'shilling' anything. As a player I don't get anything out of bringing people in. Come take a look or don't, I'm just sharing since it's a pretty rare thing to see a functional crypto/poker platform.
Cheers!