  Hello all We are neally at the end of July and my results are good. I made more than 2000$ &nbsp;this month playing neally 60 hours at poker tables and averaging a 35$&nbsp;per hour rate. I'm happy about that. Morevover I have 65% of winning games at NL 1/2 and 70% of winning games at 2/4. I lost 420$ at NL 3/6 and I won 100$ at NL 5/10. I paid more than 750$ in rakes for the poker room. So this month is a good month for me. Since a week, I proposed to some friends the idea of creating our own online poker room. All those friends are computer guys, some of them working for an IT company, others being at school. Creating a online poker room is a hard task, You need a very high availability and the solutions to achieve this, are&nbsp;all but easy. My friends (6 total) are not poker players, so I teached them Texas Holdem, played in front of them&nbsp;during 3 hours on pokerstars and&nbsp;&nbsp;give them some advices.
They started to play on play money tables on some online rooms. I ask them to test different online poker rooms assigning them different ones.&nbsp; My goal with them is to let them play during the next 2 months just for them to understand what is a poker room. I do believe that you are a better poker programmer when you are a good poker player. We have built a training program for the next 2 months just to let them improve.
During the next&nbsp;2 months, I will&nbsp;study carefully all the aspects of creating a poker room, and especially the IT part of it.&nbsp;Creating cheap High availability solutions is difficult. Robustness, fastness at the&nbsp;lowest cost is&nbsp;hard to achieve. For the financial part of this business, let have some numbers suppose there are 10 000 players each hour on internet on a site. Suppose that only 60%&nbsp;of them are playing on real money tables and that a player pay 7$ per hour to play. It gives a total earnings per year of more than 380 millions dollars. Now for the costs. Suppose that you need 3 sites somewhere in the world for redundancy. Each site being equipped with 300 big PCs. You need&nbsp;big routers, big leased lines, a building for each site. Suppose that you need 70 people per site to have 24/24 hours support paying them an average of 50 000 $ a year (very good average salary). &nbsp;&nbsp; Investment per site&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 500 000 $ Annual costs per site&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 5 000 000 $ so a grand total for the costs of 15 millions $ per year and 5 millions of investment.
then you will have to pay for marketing. Suppose you spend 100 millions dollars for marketing per year. &nbsp; It gives you 280 millions $ of margin. I definitely want to try to have part of this. Now suppose that we only have one site and that the software is created to reduce the total costs of administration by redundancy everywhere. To which level&nbsp; can we&nbsp;reduce our costs&nbsp;per year ? Probably less than 500 000 $ per year.
At this price you don't have big marketing, and hire only&nbsp;5 employees. You&nbsp;have machines, large broadband wire and a building, telephone, Fax, and secure&nbsp;stuffs&nbsp;and what is priceless you have time to increase your number of customers. Ok but we need a software, and we need a good one a one which we'll need to improve ourself, so we have to build it. How much time do we need to build it. 2 years part time.&nbsp; 1 year full time. 1 000 000 $ dollars just to create it and 500 000&nbsp;$ per year to improve it.&nbsp; &nbsp; Can I find&nbsp;3 000 000 dollars for the software company (6 years of creation and improvement) and&nbsp; 4.5 million $ (initial investment and&nbsp;6 years of hosting) for the company which will host the servers ? good question. &nbsp; &nbsp; 
