Controversy in the blogosphere

[2Tone]

For those of you follow the incestuous and entertaining world of poker blogs, check out
. He make some interesting points, and the comments feature some articulate back and forth.

My two cents on this is you should make every effort to support sites you enjoy (like this one), and that’s it is not unreasonable for TP or any other content/community provider to be compensated for his trouble.

That said, I still caution against Noble, which I believe (though can not be 100% certain) comes bundled with ad-ware.

[Talking Poker]

Fair enough.

Let's say Noble Poker does go broke, and they steal your $20 (which I think you will agree that while possible, is unlikely - of all the poker sites out there, there is exactly 1 with this history). Regardless - I'm giving you $50, so do you really care about the $20?

I don't know anything about the Spyware. I can only speak for myself, but my system is clean.

[2Tone]

No doubt -- I think it is highly unlikely that Noble will steal your money. And $50 on Pokerstars is sweet, so there's essentially no risk here. But I find the debate overall interesting.

There's a difference between Ad and Spyware. I'm not saying Noble comes bundled with anything that is going to empty your accounts. But my version at least came with an extra reg key identified as adware.

[badblood44]

Here are some of my thoughts on the matter.

Yes new sites pop up every day and the market is becoming saturated. I have to believe that it takes a good amount of time for these upstarts to eventually become profitable - perhaps months or even a year or more.

I also believe that these new sites understand this and realize that business goal number 1 is to attract new players and keep them.

Given the above, I think it's actually SAFER to play at some relatively new sites because they know and understand they will lose money initially.

With that said, I also believe that you must exercise some caution as well and not wantonly deposit money into a new site that could literally disappear overnight.

Even sites like Party and Pokerstars with a wealth of players could disappear overnight. That's the risk of online poker.

[omahilo]

I dont think these 2 sites are going anywhere.

PS has had the last 2 WSOP champs and are sending about 1/3 of the field this yr so I dont think stars will be going nowhere for a long time to come.

[Aequitas58]

Stars is sending 1/3 of the main event field? I find this really hard to believe. Where did you hear this?