Break the Curse — This Halloween with GR8 Tech

Face the Business Fears

Draw a card… if you dare. Discover haunting challenges every operator fears — and how to defeat them.

XXIV

The Regulators Reckoning

Compliance shortcuts lead to forced market exit and massive fines

True partnership means helping operators expand safely. Our flexibility lets them meet local requirements with confidence. With GR8 Tech, clients get more than technology; they get a reliable partner and advisor who stands with them in any situation.

Yevhen Krazhan

CSO at GR8 Tech
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I

The Payment Method Apocalypse

Your new market launch goes live... but local payment methods are dead on arrival

Payments move cash, but more importantly, they move entire markets. The way an operator manages deposits and withdrawals determines how fast they can enter new regions, how effectively they convert first-time players into loyal customers, and how resilient their business is in the face of change.

Yevhen Krazhan

CSO at GR8 Tech
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II

The Night of the Dead Traffic

Hordes of local players vanish with your affiliate budget

Operators shouldn’t have to restructure their workflows to fit us—we tailor the platform to fit them. Decisions can be made on the spot, optimizing campaigns in real time, reallocating budgets faster, and reducing marketing costs.

Mariia Shmelova

CEO at Aff.Tech
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III

The Great Website Shut Off

Your site gets blocked, and there is no way to get your players back

Being blocked shouldn’t mean your platform disappears entirely. We’ve designed our systems so operators can pivot traffic instantly, maintaining stability and player access under any conditions. It’s important to engineer pathways that recover faster than the problem spreads.

Edward Smyshliaiev

CTO at GR8 Tech
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IV

Invasion of the Bot Army

They come with traffic metrics that look amazing but leave no revenue behind

When fake traffic masks genuine player behavior, marketing optimizes in the wrong direction, and product teams chase ghosts. That’s why we focus on integrity in our data: using behavioral analytics, velocity checks, and cross-system validation to separate real users from automated ones. Sustainable growth starts with clean data.

Artem Kolodyazhnyy

Head of RAF Operations at GR8 Tech
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V

The Chargeback Avalanche

All it takes is an antifraud miss… and revenues fall down faster than ever

Fraud is becoming more sophisticated and faster because the tools are becoming more accessible and sophisticated. AI, automation, and crypto are all giving fraudsters new opportunities. Therefore, a modern RAF system must be proactive, adaptive, and ecosystemic: it must combine machine learning, rules, data, and human experience.

Artem Kolodyazhnyy

Head of RAF Operations at GR8 Tech
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VI

The Brand Identity Crisis

Players keep confusing you with competitors

You can’t copy a community or a mindset. The Heavyweight Club embodies our brand in action, turning ambition into tangible proof. The same rule applies to operators: your brand has to become meaningfully different. Identify that one defining strength and build communications around it. That’s how champions earn recognition and loyalty that lasts.

Yaroslava Romaniv

Head of Marketing & PR at GR8 Tech
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VII

The Odds of Doom

Your sportsbook margins are driving players mad

Being able to quickly collect feedback, measure the right metrics, and make adjustments has been crucial for ensuring our clients’ platforms stay competitive and keep players satisfied.

Vlad Andrusenko

Head of Product at GR8 Tech
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VIII

The Betting Market Drought

You offer 3 betting markets while competitors serve 35

Too few markets, too many missed bets and lost players. Having a bespoke trading team at your disposal would help you to quickly match and surpass any content novelties by your competitors.

Vlad Andrusenko

Head of Product at GR8 Tech
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IX

The Peak Event Darkness

Platform crashes during the biggest game of the year

Your platform must be built with high loads in mind. No one cares if it works day-to-day, but everyone cares if it crashes. At GR8 Tech, we use AWS cloud infrastructure, the best of the global cloud solutions, which gives us the flexibility and speed we need. We’re also investing in edge cloud technology, a newer approach that lets us get services closer to players geographically.

Edward Smyshliaiev

CTO at GR8 Tech
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X

The Phantom Provider

Your provider ghosts you when you need frontend changes

Everyone wants more flexibility. Some operators just want to tweak colors and layouts easily. Others want to build something completely custom. We handle both—from drag-and-drop customization with our widget-based frontend to the API Sportsbook that lets operators build their own frontend from scratch using our backend.

Denys Parkhomenko

CPO at GR8 Tech
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XI

The Churn Plague

Players ignore your CRM and leave in waves

GR8 Tech’s CRM stands out in customer retention, reaching up to 80% by providing deep insights into player behavior. It analyzes patterns to predict which players are at risk of leaving, allowing operators to take proactive steps to keep them engaged.

Kateryna Pozdnysheva

CCO at GR8 Tech
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XII

The Frozen Slots of Terror

Casino games lag so badly players seek refuge with competitors

Clear ownership, smart pacing, and real flexibility aren't just nice to see on the provider side; they directly translate into faster execution, better responsiveness, and fewer blockers for operators. It's the kind of structure I'd want if I were on the operator side.

Lusine Khudaverdyan

Head of Casino at GR8 Tech
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XIII

The Vanity Metrics Trap

Traffic and registrations look great, but no one deposits

A welcome bonus opens the door—but ongoing rewards and personalized engagement tools make players feel at home. That’s how you turn registrations into genuine relationships.

Kateryna Pozdnysheva

CCO at GR8 Tech
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XIV

Downtime's Revenge

One outage triggers a cascade of player losses

Every minute of downtime costs players, revenue, and reputation. Your platform’s reliability is what matters most.

Edward Smyshliaiev

CTO at GR8 Tech
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XV

The Margin Madness

Poor sportsbook pricing strategy terminates your betting revenue

Margin management isn’t guesswork and if you enter a new market with old margins, you’re losing money. What works in Europe won’t necessarily work in LatAm or Asia, where player behavior and expectations are completely different. At GR8 Tech, our geo-specific presets make margin calibration effortless: fine-tuned to regional standards, competitive dynamics, and player profiles. That precision alone can lift GGR by 10–20% and boost engagement by 15%.

Yevhen Krazhan

CSO at GR8 Tech
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XVI

The Vanishing Handle

Bet volumes collapse and you can't figure out why

When bet volumes drop, the problem can be hard to notice. Sometimes it’s margins set too high for the market, limited offers, uncompetitive odds, or a platform that can’t handle peak load. Diagnosing the real issue takes experience, decades of it. At GR8 Tech, we’ve spent over 20 years perfecting sportsbook performance, helping operators uncover what’s holding them back and fixing it before it costs them revenue.

Vlad Andrusenko

Head of Product at GR8 Tech
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XVII

The Crypto Blindness

Ignoring crypto payments while competitors capture that market

Many operators have been slow to add cryptocurrencies, leaving a significant demographic underserved and a massive opportunity on the table. Ignoring crypto is leaving the next generation of players to your competitors.

Yevhen Krazhan

CSO at GR8 Tech
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XVIII

The Copycat Curse

Your platform features look identical to every competitor out there

If every platform looks the same, players stop noticing. Real innovation means doing less, but doing it better: building what drives performance, not what just looks good on a feature list.

Denys Parkhomenko

CPO at GR8 Tech
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XIX

The Segmentation Nightmare

Your CRM targeting is so off, players tune out completely

When segmentation ignores culture, timing, and player intent, personalization turns into noise. This leads to players tuning out fast.

Kate Shevchenko

CRM Product Manager at GR8 Tech
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XX

The Localization Killer

No local language, no local payments, no local players

Too many operators treat localization like translation. Real success comes from deep, local integration—knowing how players speak, pay, and play. Without that, you’re not local, and you’re not relevant.

Denys Parkhomenko

CPO at GR8 Tech
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XXI

The Cashout Illusion

You are paying out full winnings while competitors use cashout to boost revenue and retention

While some pay out and lose the player, smart operators use cashout to keep them engaged. With flexible, transparent control, it boosts turnover and adds up to 5% more GGR, while building loyalty.

Vlad Andrusenko

Head of Product at GR8 Tech
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XXII

The Haunted Sportsbook On the Hill

Your sportsbook is not what it seems… It generates 5% of what it should

Even the strongest iGaming products can underperform if they’re not properly configured. Revenue leaks don’t come from bad content. They come from overlooked details that quietly drain performance.

Kateryna Pozdnysheva

CCO at GR8 Tech
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XXIII

The Loyalty Graveyard

Poor player experience kills LTV

When the experience clicks, the numbers follow. With well-built gamification, daily quests, tournaments, and personalized rewards, we’ve seen LTV increase by up to 20% and player retention reach 75% over six months.

Kate Shevchenko

CRM Product Manager at GR8 Tech
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