Getting to Know Your Online Poker Host
Published: Friday, March 04, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
GETTING TO KNOW YOUR POKER HOST
No faceless operator here
Internet
poker room owners are re-learning an old lesson, according to a report in this
week's London Free Press - that it helps establish trust and a solid relationship
with your customers if you are upfront about your own identity and involvement.
The article uses the host at PokerNow, Jane Jack to make the point. The 41-year-old
Stratford born former accountant, has been running her online poker site since
last September from a beach home on the tropical island of Antigua. Last year,
Jack decided to quit her job as a financial controller with a Cambridge plastics
company and play her hand in the booming business of online poker.
In
terms of previous gaming experience, she started playing serious poker in the
late 1990s in Ontario's charity casinos and has proved that she's a good poker
player through an understanding of the mathematics of the game and a tendency
that has been noticed by other woman players - male opponents often underestimate
members of the fairer sex at the tables.
"The poker world is still
seen as a man's world and when a woman sits down at the table, she's seen as a
pushover," Jack laughs.
She identified the online poker field as
having potential early on and lined up backing from private investors generous
enough to hit all the right notes in setting up her site. Then she formed a partnership
to share a client base and technology with Party Poker, the list-leading Internet
poker site based in India.
The reward for diligent business research,
solid investment and lots of plain hard work are now starting to materialise.
Since last September, PokerNow has signed up 4,000 serious poker players and thousands
more "play for fun" participants who the poker room hopes will convert
to real money action.
The serious players put up money, usually by credit
cards, and play poker with each other. PokerNow makes money by taking a "rake"
of $1 to $3 from the winning pot.
Jack is boosting credibility by becoming
the persona behind PokerNow. Her biography and photo are posted on the website.
She personally answers a steadily growing daily email workload and appears at
trade shows across North America. "If you go out and talk to people, they
know you are for real," she said.
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