Business plan

Mr. Flibble

Has anyone heard of people setting up 'poker child labor slave shops' in 3rd world countries? Set 200 kids at the 5c/10c tables of the world and have them eek out a few $ per hour. Give them stringent guidelines on how to play and starve them if they tilt. Think it would it be viable?

Lex

I find your ideas intriguing, and would like to subscribe to your newletter.

BigDragon

Heard of it happening in the gaming world (online RPG games etc) where endless collection of weird stuff moves you up levels etc.

DeadParrot

You are an Evil Genius

Mr. Flibble

I'm suing my doctor for breaking the doctor patient confidentiality agreement.
I personally wouldn't be arsed setting this up, I'm quite happy in Ireland. But it could possibly be set up with all parties benifiting (probably would have to ease off the starvation part, but none the less).

Dub13

Mr. Flibble wrote:

Has anyone heard of people setting up 'poker child labor slave shops' in 3rd world countries? Set 200 kids at the 5c/10c tables of the world and have them eek out a few $ per hour. Give them stringent guidelines on how to play and starve them if they tilt. Think it would it be viable?

Something similar is in the pipeline,although its not cash game and its also not a 3rd world country but the general principal is the same.

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Lex

BigDragon wrote:

Heard of it happening in the gaming world (online RPG games etc) where endless collection of weird stuff moves you up levels etc.

yea, I think they're called "gold farms" for World of Warcraft and stuff. Apparently you can trade it for real cash....

It's possible for poker, but I'd imagine staff turn over would be high as players break out on their own after moving up a few levels....
and after all you've taught them!! :mad:

El Stuntman

Mr. Flibble wrote:

I'm suing my doctor for breaking the doctor patient confidentiality agreement.
I personally wouldn't be arsed setting this up, I'm quite happy in Ireland. But it could possibly be set up with all parties benifiting (probably would have to ease off the starvation part, but none the less).

allow me to throw in some free consultancy

200 slaves at $1 per hour wage (is this too high? must consult further) plus food (rice, worms, wood etc)
Call it a unit cost of $1.02 per hour per poker slave

10 slave-drivers at $5 per hour
capital equipment (whips, chains, PCs, broadband etc)
possibly some bribes may be required to local politicos

Expected return per hour...let's aim for $3 per poker slave (no doubt we can increase this as the slaves become more proficient or as we increase the frequency/severity of beatings)

This idea intrigues me greatly

We could maybe cut costs on the slave-drivers by employing savage animals to maintain order (crocodiles, lions etc - these should be readily available on the local market). We could probably also save on capital costs by claiming to be setting up a charity to educate orphans and have Irish firms donate their used PCs to us.

I see no reason why this business should not be a great success

sikes

would be cheaper the write a bot, you will need loads of net connections too.

The workers will get unhappy as they will see the amount you are making becuase they are literally making it for you. so you will have to give them a good cut. but of course once you do that, they can pool resources together and create their own company. and then they will offer a better price to new players, then in the end you are left in the back arse of now where with 100s of crappy P2s and 100s of crappy internet connections

Mr. Flibble

$1 per hour is wayyy to much. I heard $2/day was the norm when I was travelling in Thailand. So if I were to feed and house them thats probably going to cost $2/person/day and they'll have the $2 wage spare for luxury items.
So if they can make $2/hr each we are, as they say, ITM.
Keep an eye out for bright sparks making more than the norm and upgrade them to super-slave status and let them play 10c/20c and 25c/50c. There's bound to be 1 or 2 latent poker savants out there.

No need for many internet connections. There's no problem using 1 connection so long as they play at different tables - which we want anyway as we don't want them taking each others money.

Dub13

Mr. Flibble wrote:

I don't know how easy it would be for your average chinese rice worker to set up an online money account but we can hold family members hostage for added insurance against breakaway groups.

LOL....sounds like you have done something like this before.

Mr. Flibble

My lawyer wishes that I state that at no time have I taken chinese family members hostage for personal gain.

El Stuntman

Mr F, we would of course hold their salary for them 'in trust' for five years while they work off their contracts?

sikes

you can withhold a couple of years wages as payment for training

ianmc38

I've actually discussed this topic with a few people before.

El Stuntman

ianmc38 wrote:

I've actually discussed this topic with a few people before.

why do you always bring this up?

my offer still stands - $5 an hour and your pick of the slaves

hotspur

I vaguely recall reading about somebody trying to set something up like this only with sit n go's. I didn't pay a great deal of attention to it since it didn't get off the ground and had also thrown in something which strictly broke the rules of poker sites, dunno what that was exactly.

As for the idea itself, I don't believe that 200 random Thai ladyboys will beat the rake at a cash table working 8 hours a day. Far better to use them for human pharmaceutical trials. No wait that's Africans isn't it? I'm not sure how best to exploit Asians in the post-cold war world, perhaps some kind of giant human powered gerbil wheel to provide clean free energy to us. Handheld computers can be used to try to beat the rake at 10c/25c to give them somthing to do besides peddle.

bops

I heard that a well known irish poker company has set one of these "units" up in Mexico already - rumours have it that they get paid more than their dealers :eek:

cooker3

bops wrote:

I heard that a well known irish poker company has set one of these "units" up in Mexico already - rumours have it that they get paid more than their dealers :eek:

Is it pokerevents