Ask HN: How to monetize a play for fun poker site?

Re:Ask HN: How to monetize a play for fun poker site? by Tichy on Tuesday November 04, 2008 @06:35AM (#353308)

There is a lot of competition, but I haven't found a place where I could just play poker for fun, no download or payment necessary. If you want to charge a monthly fee, unfortunately your site won't qualify, either. Otherwise, your position would not even be so bad, I think.

Wouldn't ads be sufficient? I think there is a lot of money in ads for Online Poker. Of course that would be ads for other poker sites, so I am not sure if it would be good for you to have them on your site.

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Re:Ask HN: How to monetize a play for fun poker site? by wagerlabs on Tuesday November 04, 2008 @06:45AM (#353313)

I feel your pain but don't know if ads will be sufficient. There's a huge downturn in ads at the moment.

Plus, if I position myself as a family-friendly site then I definitely can't show ads from other poker sites.

Perhaps there's good money in ads here but I definitely don't have a budget for running this site without external funding.

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Re:Ask HN: How to monetize a play for fun poker site? by Tichy on Tuesday November 04, 2008 @07:02AM (#353323)

Maybe tagging a Poker site as family friendly is not the best approach? Even if people don't play for money, it could still get them hooked on gambling. There are plenty of other nice things to do for kids besides playing Poker.

Of course what would be cool is a trustworthy poker site. I just don't trust the average poker server, and there is no way in hell I would download and install their software to play.

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Re:Ask HN: How to monetize a play for fun poker site? by wagerlabs on Tuesday November 04, 2008 @07:20AM (#353331)

Family-friendly is not the right term indeed.

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