Poker Room Suggestion , Dealers Choice/home Games

[LeMunche 0]

How come no poker sites have attempted to recreate the home game online? I'm talking about a card room that offers dealer's choice from a variety of common card games played at family parties, for example, but not at B&M casinos. Two quick examples would be "Follow the Queen" and "Chicago."In my mind it seems like a great idea and something that should have been tried. A site that offered such games would of course be targeting a niche market, but one that is untapped in such a competitive industry.In fact, I believe that the demand for such games would be much larger than most would speculate. A decent percentage of people must be playing online simply because they want to play cards, a desire deriving from past home game experience. Limited to shark invested games they are not used to, with less social benefits than dealer's choice home games, these people are forced to adapt to the limited choices offered by an unlimited number of poker sites. A dealer's choice site, or a dealer's choice section, with a variety of games would add that social aspect many players are missing. Also, many of these games involve much more chance and bigger pots than the current game offerings giving people who lack skill or confidence in the current game offerings more incentive to play.For the poker site the benefits are not limited to simply being the first to attract this currently unsatisfied demographic (although this is a huge benefit in such a competitive market). People will probably play longer since the games are more social and fewer players will feel dominated due to the luck factor of such games. At the same time the poker room will be benefiting from the rake taken from the large multi-way pots these games create.I'm guessing that this idea has been thought of before by anyone operating an online poker room, but rejected for one reason or another. Not being part of the industry myself, I don't know the reasoning behind the rejection, but I just can't believe not even the big companies are willing to do it since the market is so competitive when it comes to gaining new players.Sorry for the long message. I just couldn't pass up bringing up the idea for discussion among so many poker enthusiasts.