Building Sustainable Poker Growth Engines: A strategic guide to retention-led poker growth using AI-powered CRM, lifecycle modelling, and player value (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798242680906)

When sign-up bonuses stopped being the reliable lever for growth, many gaming teams found themselves scrambling for new answers. Building Sustainable Poker Growth Engines in a Post-Bonus Era shows product, marketing and growth leaders how to replace one-off promotion playbooks with repeatable, responsible systems that acquire, activate, retain and monetize real players - without eroding experience or long-term value.

This is a pragmatic, field-tested guide, not an academic treatise. Christian Strutt draws on hands-on work in online poker and adjacent digital entertainment verticals to present frameworks, experiments and operational routines that actually ship. If you're accountable for player acquisition, first-week activation, lifecycle value, or rebuilding your monetization stack in a more ethical, data-driven way, this book gives you a toolkit and a time-boxed plan to get started.

What you'll get
- Clear playbooks for the new acquisition stack: creative themes, funnel architecture, and incrementality holds to stop confusing volume with value.
- Friction-light onboarding and first-week mission scaffolds that turn curiosity into early engagement and measurable D7 lift.
- Actionable segmentation across behavioral, lifecycle and intent axes, each bound to one-page playbooks your CRM can execute.
- Practical ways to introduce AI and real-time personalization safely - propensity models, decisioning rules and safety filters that boost outcomes without surprising players.
- Lifecycle modelling, LTV forecasting and CAC payback rules that put acquisition decisions on a mathematical footing.
- Retention mechanics rooted in ethical habit design and table ecology - how rake, matchmaking and offers affect long-term health.
- Reactivation systems that treat churn as a product capability, with templates, holdouts and incremental measurement.
- Community and live-ops playbooks for compounding engagement through events, creator programs and authentic rhythms.
- Governance and growth risk controls to embed KYC/AML, fraud detection and experiment safety into everyday testing.

Inside the book
Chapters are organized around specific problems - acquisition, onboarding, segmentation, AI CRM, monetization, reactivation, community and governance - each offering concrete tactics, measurement approaches and operational guardrails. You'll find chapter-level experiments, sample event taxonomies, decisioning logic examples, rollback thresholds for monetization tests, and templates for one-page segment playbooks.

A distinctive feature is the 90-day Sustainable Growth Playbook. It turns strategy into a time-boxed program with clear owners, success criteria and measurable outcomes:
- Days 0-30: Stabilize foundations - define a North-Star, instrument a core event taxonomy, run a product clarity workshop, and launch guest play with progressive sign-up pilots.
- Days 31-60: Orchestrate acquisition and onboarding - deploy creative themes with holdouts, build matched funnels, launch a mission scaffold and pilot an AI propensity model for week-one deposits.
- Days 61-90: Scale with governance - launch community pilots, run cohort LTV analysis, test monetization experiments with rollback thresholds, and convene a Growth Risk Committee.

Why this book matters
This book teaches teams to instrument everything, measure incrementally with holdouts and randomized tests, and optimize for ecology and long-term value. It balances bold testing with ethical guardrails so you can grow without burning trust.

If you want growth that lasts - not headlines that fade - this book gives you the frameworks, operational rhythms and pragmatic playbooks to build sustainable poker growth engines in a post-bonus world.

Produced by Christian Strutt contactable at www.miltonkeynesmarketing.uk or via LinkedIn to discuss your online poker marketing object

Author: Christian Strutt
ISBN-13: 9798242680906
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2026
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d