Help with my dissertation: Online Poker

Durno

Hi there, im doing my dissertation at university on online poker, im trying to see whether there is a link between the increase in the game online and an increase in female and student players.
Im looking for people who play online poker, students and women in particular, to answer a few questions, basically why they play online etc, what they like / dislikes about playing online etc.

If people could just spend a few mins answering the following questions i would really appreciate it
Name:
Poker Name:
Age:
Gender:
Nationality:
Location:
Occupation:

1.)Do you own a computer?
2.)Do you have access to the internet at home?
3.)How often do you play poker online?
4.)How long have you been playing online for?
5.)How did you start playing online poker?
6.)Why did you start playing online?
7.)Were you influenced to play by television coverage?
8.)What is your favourite aspect of playing online poker?
9.)What don’t you like about online poker?
10.)Do you have poker profile?
11.)Do you believe people’s profiles? People pretneding to be female to gain a psychological advantage
12.)Do you chat to players online?
13.)Who do you play? Friends? Family?
14.)Have you played online with “play money”?
15.)How much money to you win or loose?
16.)Because you are playing with “e-cash” do you tend to bet more?
17.)Where do you play online poker? home? work?
18.) Why do you play in this location?
19.)Does playing online make you want to play in a real casino?


Cheers

ditpoker

(its upsetting that this is the first practical use of my business degree... i should have studied history... anyway!)

Your questionaire is flawed, eg, questions 17 and 18 should be questions 1 and 2 as anyone who says yes they play online obviously has access to the internet. I'd suggest getting the questionaire filled out by a random sample, say 100 people at a shopping centre who are in your demographic and not all from an online poker forum as you'll find that 100% of the players here do play online. Also, dont have leading questions and provide answers for people... i.e don't ask 15.)Where do you play online poker? instead, ask...
15.)Where do you play online poker?

• PokerStars
• PartyPoker
• PaddyPowerPoker
• Fulltiltpoker
• Ladbrokes Poker
• Other... please specify.

People are more willing to tick off answers that are correct for them, but will not write 'i play at poker stars'.

Hope this helps, and best of luck with the thesis.

Durno

Thanks for the advice, i was made a few changes, but i was late last night when i thought of the idea to post something on the internet. I agree that a questionnaire with tick boxes would be quicker, but i need to obtain qualitative data (descriptive data) rather than quantitative (numerical data) - which that type of questionnaire would obtain. I was planning to talk to people during the games, using the online chat options, but paddypoker advised me to use a bulletin board. I just hope there are some kind people out there.

Drakar

Since you are asking the question on the internet, with an expected audience of internet poker players, you probably shouldn't be surprised if everyone answers yes to questions 1 and 2.

kincsem

Sounds like a good way to meet women students, who have a bit of money, and like to take risks.

Mr. Flibble

Ill get the ball rolling Durno. Nothing too private so I'll post it here.

Name: Mr. Flibble
Poker Name: Numerous ones - a new one for each signup bonus
Age: 25
Gender: M
Nationality: Irish
Location: Dublin
Occupation: ex student soon to be a student again

1.)Do you own a computer? y
2.)Do you have access to the internet at home? y
3.)How often do you play poker online? 4 to 7 days/week excluding hollidays
4.)How long have you been playing online for? 2 years
5.)How did you start playing online poker? was bored while doing my final year project and downloaded FHM poker which was the only one I coud get to work in college
6.)Why did you start playing online? see q.5 and presumed I could make money at it.
7.)Were you influenced to play by television coverage? yes, indirectly. one of my friends had picked up the rules when watching tv and we started playing.
8.)What is your favourite aspect of playing online poker? money
9.)What don’t you like about online poker? the emotional lows after a loosing session
10.)Do you have poker profile? do you mean the little blurb about yourself when people click on your avatar? if so yes, its filled with an add for gold-mine-poker.com
11.)Do you believe people’s profiles? People pretneding to be female to gain a psychological advantage: ah, yes you did mean the little blurb thing. never put much thought into it, but I find reading them helps me remember how they play, however that turns out to be.
12.)Do you chat to players online? sometimes.
13.)Who do you play? Friends? Family? offline i play friends mainly, never family. i would if they played. sometimes i play in a cardroom.
14.)Have you played online with “play money”? yes. i started with play money and use the play money tables to learn how new games work (stud, omaha hi-lo etc)
15.)How much money to you win or loose? in a session or overall? in a session a 2 buy-in downswing is about as much as I can handle before callign it a day which equates to $400 at the level I play at the moment. I've won over $400 a number of times in a session. overall im up 7300 euro (4400 euro online)
16.)Because you are playing with “e-cash” do you tend to bet more? no.
17.)Where do you play online poker? home? work? home (at the moment this makes it work too)
18.) Why do you play in this location? its where my computer and I are
19.)Does playing online make you want to play in a real casino? no. i played in real casinos before playing online if it matters - online didnt lead me to real casino poker.

Durno

thanks, i really appreciate the time you have taken to answer the questions, i just hope i am able to mkae something off everybodys replies.

Cheers