How to hire poker props

If you're contemplating launching a poker room of your own, sooner or later you'll bump into the issue of hiring poker props. Why do you need props? Simple. Without achieving critical player liquidity, your poker room will never get rolling. To provide reasonable action at most featured limits is the absolute minimum a poker room needs to attract further customers. Just think about it: you invest in an ad campaign which yields excellent results. Players learn about your poker room, about some of the unique promotions it offers, they show up and they find no or extremely limited action. What do they do? They leave and they make a mental note not to come back to your room any time soon.

A team of poker prop players ignites the process which will end up mustering reasonable traffic and action for your poker room. From that point on, the downhill snowball effect springs into action, and provided your offer is indeed a good one, your player base will swell without any sort of further radical interventions on your part. In order to hire a prop team, you need to contact an established poker prop deal provider. Such websites (which usually offer rakeback as well) will send you poker players the same way affiliate websites send you regular traffic.

In order for them to be able to duly promote your room though, you'll need to provide them with detailed information on your poker operation, especially including the following:

• The approximate number of poker props you deem necessary to cover your critical liquidity. This piece of information is important because you do not want to end up with an oversized prop team wreaking havoc on your revenue. You need as few props as possible to cover your needs, because you will be paying these players to play. The site that you team up with to satisfy your poker prop needs has to be in the know as well.
• Outline the restrictions that you'll require your prop players to subject themselves to. Make sure your poker prop provider also knows about these restrictions and that he makes them available to all interested parties. Seating restrictions, limit restrictions, minimum and maximum playtime, scheduling preferences, management-related restrictions, bonuses and promotions should all be thoroughly covered.
• Specify the exact percentage you're willing to pay your poker prop players. This is your main weapon for attracting props, so make sure you set the percentages well: attractive enough for your players and reasonable enough for yourself. Poker props will be playing on their own bankrolls, however, poker rooms are supposed to make their money through the rake and the tournament fees and you're going to have to give up on those as far as props are concerned.

Last but not least: make sure you do not leave any room for abuse in the system. Poker players are used to finding and exploiting small edges everywhere and they'll be extremely handy in exploiting any loop-holes in your system too. Remember: the poker props you hire will probably remain your poker props for as long as they play at your room. Poker rooms pay their props the same lavish rakeback percentages even after they stop offering prop deals officially.