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Many of us who worked in iGaming space during the poker boom (and associated offshore gambling/betting exchanges that thrived alongside it) felt like our dreams of retirement by 30 vanished overnight when the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act ended access to the US markets for all but a few tiny players who chose to skirt the regulations. No more PokerStars on TV. No more Moneymaker fanboys. No more action.
The slow creep of regulation in Europe has led to dozens of UK-based online casinos leaving the market, and affiliates fleeing to Ireland just to make their content or giving up entirely.
Most States ended gambling online within their borders. Forget international poker, there wasn’t even interstate poker.
Some of you probably can’t imagine how easy it was to make money in this space - especially those of you used to competing in low-margin/high volume type niches now.
To give you an idea - one of my small personal projects was a crappy little poker chat room that Garrett and I paid a random European poker player chap who drank too much and was quite mad to sit in all day and entertain people we drove to it with some little viral video jokes and some educational content we seeded on PokerTube.
That made $10k/month on autopilot during the good times. Imagine how much the huge rakeback houses were making if a few dozen players made that much for the chat room…
The United States online gambling market is about to change. Not just change, change MASSIVELY.
We’re going back to those opportunities. And some affiliates already gambled on that years before this change started (see - https://statsdrone.com/blog/legal-betting-landscape-usa-mike-murphy/).
But don’t believe him that it’s too late for small players (he would say that of course - he doesn’t really want you all joining) - there’s going to be so much money to be made in the next 10 years. During the gap between legalisation then the creep of tighter regulation that we’ve seen in Europe there’s space for everything and everyone.
What we all need to do is find our little space now. Affiliation works by curating a group of followers who love your content/take on their favourite games and always come back to you for the community/content you put out there (video is important but of course we ranked on page 1 for ‘poker chat room’ during that pre-UIGEA time… that was the key to unlock access to potential community members).
If there’s an obscure team or sport where people can bet and you can be THE go to site to discuss that … you can win. If there’s a type of live dealer casino game you can review all the providers, and give tips on how to play (look at all the ‘how to play craps’ stuff on YouTube) … you can win.
It’s a huge market. Why not lay the foundation now as the opening up is happening and be ready as State after State goes legal.
Even better news - while our other niches struggle during this war-induced recession, gambling will boom - Studies are showing that sports betting participation increases during recessions: https://sportshandle.com/june-22-stock-watch/
Reach Creator, has huge experience working with linkbuilding for all the major casino brands worldwide operating fully licensed and legally, of course. In all languages, though primarily we focus on English, Spanish and Portuguese (yes the South American gambling market is booming too as places like Argentina and Brazil become effectively modern industrial economies (we’ve all flown on an Embraer by now after all).
We’ll be launching some of our own side-projects too as this ‘reopening but bigger’ happens, I’d recommend you all join us.
The slow creep of regulation in Europe has led to dozens of UK-based online casinos leaving the market, and affiliates fleeing to Ireland just to make their content or giving up entirely.
Most States ended gambling online within their borders. Forget international poker, there wasn’t even interstate poker.
Some of you probably can’t imagine how easy it was to make money in this space - especially those of you used to competing in low-margin/high volume type niches now.
To give you an idea - one of my small personal projects was a crappy little poker chat room that Garrett and I paid a random European poker player chap who drank too much and was quite mad to sit in all day and entertain people we drove to it with some little viral video jokes and some educational content we seeded on PokerTube.
That made $10k/month on autopilot during the good times. Imagine how much the huge rakeback houses were making if a few dozen players made that much for the chat room…
The United States online gambling market is about to change. Not just change, change MASSIVELY.
We’re going back to those opportunities. And some affiliates already gambled on that years before this change started (see - https://statsdrone.com/blog/legal-betting-landscape-usa-mike-murphy/).
But don’t believe him that it’s too late for small players (he would say that of course - he doesn’t really want you all joining) - there’s going to be so much money to be made in the next 10 years. During the gap between legalisation then the creep of tighter regulation that we’ve seen in Europe there’s space for everything and everyone.
What we all need to do is find our little space now. Affiliation works by curating a group of followers who love your content/take on their favourite games and always come back to you for the community/content you put out there (video is important but of course we ranked on page 1 for ‘poker chat room’ during that pre-UIGEA time… that was the key to unlock access to potential community members).
If there’s an obscure team or sport where people can bet and you can be THE go to site to discuss that … you can win. If there’s a type of live dealer casino game you can review all the providers, and give tips on how to play (look at all the ‘how to play craps’ stuff on YouTube) … you can win.
It’s a huge market. Why not lay the foundation now as the opening up is happening and be ready as State after State goes legal.
Even better news - while our other niches struggle during this war-induced recession, gambling will boom - Studies are showing that sports betting participation increases during recessions: https://sportshandle.com/june-22-stock-watch/
Reach Creator, has huge experience working with linkbuilding for all the major casino brands worldwide operating fully licensed and legally, of course. In all languages, though primarily we focus on English, Spanish and Portuguese (yes the South American gambling market is booming too as places like Argentina and Brazil become effectively modern industrial economies (we’ve all flown on an Embraer by now after all).
We’ll be launching some of our own side-projects too as this ‘reopening but bigger’ happens, I’d recommend you all join us.
