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Message: [QUOTE="SpanRmonka, post: 7198880, member: 429759"] A lot of replies here seem to, I think, mis undertsand the OP and the point he was trying to make. Just because they are all poker sites with casinos does not make them all the same, and I am torn with the fact that I love poker, and love playing it, and online is very very convinient. There has though been a huge increase in gambling addiction since you can now do it so easily online. Lets just take sports betting or casino games. They are so easily accessible now, wheras previously you had to go to a casino, or usually pretty scummy betting shop to gamble. This in itself put a lot of poeple off. Now they can smash £100 in minutes on their phone!! I do see where [USER=1036998]@primrose[/USER] is coming from. GG have made it more attractive, and potentially more additcting. The fact that I don't find it more addicting or anyone else is not the point, we are likely not the target market for these subtle marketing ploys, and even if we were, would we know!!! I don't play casino games, hardly ever anyway. I just love poker. But if the poker sites continue to over promote lots of other gambling, its harder for governments to be persuaded that poker should be separate from other gambling!! GG is a marketting machine, and I agree they do do it to a more extreme level than other sites. They advertise on radio frequently in the UK, and when you do join, the site looks slick etc, so newbies are clearly more likely to want to keep playing, and maybe venture to the casino areas too. All that said, of course this is all beneficial to us as poker players who make varying money from the game. The OP wasn't complaining about this. Simply making one of the most well re searched posts made on here for a while, detailing how they are making marginal gains in various areas to be more addicting to players, and make more money from being there. We are all responsible for ourselves, but we are also, I believe, responsible for more vunerable members of society too. This is why many countries have health care systems for example. So while I'm comfortable taking players money at the tables, I'm less comforable that that player then deposits, and keeps playing and playing while tilting and keeps losing, or goes to the casino and loses more, and GG do appear to be more direct/effcient in targetting these players in small incremental ways as the OP described. [/QUOTE]

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