as a years-long customer for whom prices keep increasing while product keeps getting worse (fraud detection and dispute handling in particular), I'm really hopeful that a decent competitor shows up soon.
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0.4% is an extremely steep price for a company like mine doing over $2.5m in annual turnover (saas) which has a very low fraud rate. I actually think currently we pay less than that by doing nothing (meaning letting Paypal handle it, and losing every case).
However I'd gladly pay a few thousands per year for it, or be able to pay it on selected transactions (only US for instance).
That trick doesn't change the variance at all if decks are the same.
Typical winrates in human vs human are between 1-5ptbb/100 where 1ptbb = two big blinds. At 1ptbb the variance is pretty big and north of 1million hands are probably necessary to establish an edge, whereas at 5ptbb the variance is much smaller and 100k hands are usually enough to converge to the expected value
That is very unconvincing as 49k hands is really nothing and not enough to iron out variance unless the edge is really big (which doesn't seem to be the case). Any serious poker player will tell you that.
They should play 1-10 million hands (depending on the edge) in order to get a decent idea of where this is going.