I didn't find out all of this until after the fact. According to what I have heard these agents are given a percentage of rake for every player who joins the club and uses their referral code/agent number. This might not be entirely accurate, but this is what I have gathered so far after researching this subject and joining two separate clubs.
When I met this guy at a local live game, he would constantly drone on about Pokerbros and how he was rolling in money every month because of this on-line application. Pokerbros, PPPoker, Global Poker, all of these platforms were previously unknown to me until someone from a live game told me about them.
@Zorba: I agree with your assessment and sentiments. I personally never liked this guy seeing as he immediately struck me as another seedy American residing offshore so as to engage in behaviors that would probably land him in a jail back in the United States. These types of US citizen are a dime a dozen in Colombia.
I have been very compelled to file a dispute with my bank over the $300 that I paid into this Pokerbros app on the basis that I have since discovered the laundry list of way that people can cheat and are cheating on the platform. After I deleted the application, I started mentally replaying the conversation that I had with the aforementioned shady American who spent more time talking about his VPN when, in fact, you do not need a VPN to use the Pokerbros application. That, in fact, this guy has two cell phones and three laptops that he can use to utilize multiple accounts simultaneously, in addition to also racking up money by receiving kickbacks for recruiting new players into his club.
The Bottom line is that people need to simply stay the hell away from on-line poker. I will always reject the argument given by degenerate gamblers that on-line poker sites are way to profitable to be running a gaming platform with colluders, cheaters, superusers, etc. I call bullshit on that defense since the biggest brands in on-line poker have been involved in a myriad of scandal, scams, schemes, never mind these smaller scale sites that appear out of thin air every other year.
There is just too much money involved for anyone to stand there and try and convince me that everything is 100% legitimate. These defenses coming from degenerate gamblers that major on-line poker sites are regulated, that the RNGs used on any given platform are heavily scrutinized, is pure BS. That some government in some 4th world banana republic has issued a seal of approval. A seal of approval that can be purchased for a million dollar from some corrupt official that most likely doubles as their money-launderer on the weekends.
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