Improve poker cardrooms: Mason Malmuth

Poker player and gambling author Mason Malmuth joins us once again to discuss his new book, Cardrooms: Everything Bad and How to Make Them Better. We talk about the importance of the proper balance between luck and skill in poker, how poker managers can promote the game, and what can players do to sustain the profitability of the game. In his 34 years as a full-time gambler and gambling writer, Mason has co-authored 15 other books. Mason’s publishing company Two Plus Two LLC has sold over two million books on gambling. Two Plus Two has published over three dozen books on poker, written by some of the biggest names in the field.   CONNECT WITH MASON: Twitter: https://twitter.com/masonmalmuth Two Plus Two Poker: https://www.twoplustwo.com/   CONNECT:  Subscribe to this channel: https://bit.ly/runchuks-yt  Subscribe to newsletter: https://www.runchukspodcast.com  Twitter: https://twitter.com/RunchuksP  Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/runchukspoker  Coaching: https://bit.ly/bts-coaching    PODCAST INFO: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2XlvTro Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2ECWIAF Podcast Website: https://bit.ly/runchuks-pod YouTube playlist: https://bit.ly/podcast-yt   OUTLINE: 00:00:00 Intro 00:04:05 Cardrooms: Everything Bad and How to Make Them Better 00:09:04 Keeping recreational players in the game 00:12:48 The balance between luck and skill 00:15:28 Small stakes are dying 00:18:46 Railing tables 00:26:35 Win rate and speeding up the game 00:31:28 Running it twice 00:39:17 Dealers 00:48:53 Favorite rooms 00:52:11 Tips for poker players 00:53:22 Maximum buy-in 01:02:11 Straddles 01:14:05 High stakes area 01:15:26 Sucker privileges 01:20:47 Private list 01:23:13 Table structures 01:26:08 Promotion ideas 01:44:59 Rake structure 01:49:48 Low stakes games 01:51:31 Online poker environment 01:56:07 Live poker environment 02:00:52 Poker variants post solver era 02:04:56 Sixteen different games that cardrooms might want to try 02:10:24 If there was one change 02:13:49 Feedback from a cardroom manager and players 02:16:06 Must move tables 02:21:01 The ever-changing poker environment 02:22:43 Free book for cardroom managers