Lol damn my last post was all over the fuckin place. Yes it is still a good business to get into if you have enough money to start it up. Creating your software from scratch may not be the best choice for when you are first starting out. I'd go with ready to go casino software so you only need the merchant account and hosting and you'll be somewhat set aside from advertising but most casino/poker systems will have a built in affiliate tracking feature. What you may want to do first is signup for a poker/casino affiliate program so you can learn the traffic flow and all the basics just like you would with the adult industry. Im sure most program/paysite owners didnt just wake up and started building thier sites instead they learned all the basic things and traffic generation. Learn to do that first then when you feel that you have gained enough experiance with poker and casino sites you can purchase the software. I don't remember the exact site but its somewhere on my computer, its company that hosts just casino sites and has some top notch security against hackers and ddos attacks at reasonable prices because those hackers will come and they will come often. Security for you and your players should always be #1 on your lists of priorities when running a casino. When you actually go and buy the gaming software you'll want to make sure you can contact the company or person who is selling you the software is actually legit by verifying phone numbers and mailing addresses. There are alot of scammers out there who hide behind prepaid phones and mail drop's so if you can try to meet face to face with them or at least make sure that the phone number is traceable to a physical location and that all the info matches. Make sure to also demo thier software so you know you aren't getting some piece of shit software that was made back in 1998 since things have really changed since then and todays new gaming software is much more high end. As for advertising its not as hard as some people make it out to be. I won't give out too many details here because i don't want everybody and thier mom doing it but a good way to advertise your poker/casino site is to give out info for free. We live in an information age and if you tell people how to do something they'll do it. You can give out info on how to play poker, strategies, start a poker player forum/chat/blog or whatever you want. Just learn to build steady traffic without paying $10 per click. Also use adwords but use it carefully. They won't let you link directly to any gambling sites but what you can do is give out free poker playing info weekly via email. All they have to do is fill out a form with thier name and email on it and you'll have a pretty nice list of poker players within a month that could easily generate money for you. You don't want to spam them just include your affiliate link or whatever in each newsletter along with the tip of the week.Then once you get the idea of how to build a site with steady traffic and can get decent rankings in the se's start your own casino/poker site. Oh yea, don't forget that tgp galleries don't just have to advertise "free" porn trials. They can advertise free tips as well
