big online gambling and online poker report

hotspur

eCOGRA released some findings from their very large (11,000 player) survey of online casino and poker players today. You'll find a lot of it quite interesting. Here's a link to a pdf of the media summary:
http://www.ecogra.org/Downloads/eCOGRA_Global_Online_Gambler_Report.pdf

pok3rplaya

Very interesting thanks for this link. I'd love to know how this survey was dispersed.

Scotty #

Yea very interesting. For instance, here's something I would never have thought of but fmakes a lot of sense.

wrote:

A similar curvilinear relationship exists between bankroll management and profitability. Playing with a smaller percentage of your bankroll (i.e. money set aside for gambling at one time) tended to have a positive impact on financial outcome up to the point where players were playing with less than 2%. Players playing with less than 2% tended to be less financially successful than those playing with between 2% and 20% of their bankroll. The optimum range to maximise profitability was playing with between 2% to 10% of the bankroll at any one table. There is common understanding that playing with too much of your bankroll at any one time leaves you open to risking too much of your bankroll in one hand, and then ultimately to chance. Financial success in poker is considered to be a long term affair with the acknowledgement that even the best players are vulnerable to statistical variance e.g. “suck outs” or “bad beats”. However, playing with less than 2% of your bankroll, as supported by the findings of this study, may mean forgoing potential profitability given that it is possible to play with a higher percentage of one’s bankroll, whilst still protecting oneself from statistical variance or “bad luck”. It may also be the case that those who are able to play with less than 2% of their bankroll may be less concerned about the outcome of the gamble, given that the implications for winning or losing would be less significant given the size of their bankroll. This might suggest that such poker players would play more hands and exhibit less discipline and control (i.e. play loose).

Doc Farrell

hey hotspur, is this the thingy i filled out about a year ago?
If it is then,
Where's my ten dollars?! You promised me 10 bucks! don't deny it!

Interesting survey, I think they only read mine and pretended it was 10,000!
especially the bit about pretending to be a woman.... no, hang on...
i'll get me coat.

Doc Farrell

I forgot to mention in the survey that this is the music that goes through my head when I win a nice big juicy pot!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VNdyzvy7bwI

and here's one for my pot limit omaha wins!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw6V6V_y1Co

...still can't find episode 2 of season 3 on youtube of high stakes poker!
this is gonna go on till i do!

I love youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9cyIgWiNNI

ok, I'll leave it at that. I'm getting the feeling that I ought to be doing homework for my Intercert!

hotspur

No Doc this wasn't my study that you took part in, this was done over the past 3 months.

Scotty #

Oh I presumed it was the one we did about a year ago too. Its a pity its not exclusive to poker.

Ste05

So did I actually, one stat that I was quite startled at was that apparently 1/3 of all On-Line Poker players visit on-line discussion boards. I'd have thought (and hoped) that this was much lower.

Could this be anything to do with the recruitment methods used for getting qualified candidates for completing the survey Hotspur??

hotspur

I'm not sure Ste05, I know they recruited via online banners but I doubt they put them on online gambling and poker fora, but it's possible. I'm not surprised that 1/3 of online poker players players visit discussion fora. Doesn't mean that they are any good or improve via them though.

Here's a piece of crap UK Poker 2007 study report released by poker site pkr today:
http://www.pkr.com/pdf/PKR_YouGov_FINAL&APPROVED.pdf