BLOGS & INSIGHTS
Player intelligence, bonus ROI, churn modelling, and the data science behind iGaming CRM. Written by Erik Ternav, co-founder at Lintvern.
March 28, 2026 · 6 min read
HOW BONUS ABUSE IS DRAINING YOUR GGR AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
Operators lose 5-15% of GGR to promo hunters every year. Most don't know who they are until it's too late. Here's how scoring changes that.
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March 14, 2026 · 5 min read
CHURN PREDICTION IN IGAMING: WHY GENERIC ML MODELS MISS THE MARK
Off-the-shelf churn models trained on SaaS data don't understand player lifecycle. Here's what a purpose-built iGaming model looks like.
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February 28, 2026
THE CASE FOR WAREHOUSE-NATIVE SCORING IN IGAMING
Why computing player intelligence inside your warehouse, not outside it, is the architecture decision that changes everything.
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February 10, 2026
CRM WITHOUT INTELLIGENCE: THE HIDDEN COST OF RUNNING BLIND
Your CRM can execute campaigns perfectly and still waste half your bonus budget. The problem isn't execution. It's the signals you're targeting on.
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January 22, 2026
VIP UPLIFT MODELLING: IDENTIFYING HIGH-VALUE PLAYERS BEFORE THEY PEAK
Most VIP programs react to value after it's already there. Uplift scoring finds it before the player becomes a VIP, and before your competitors do.
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January 8, 2026
PROMO SENSITIVITY: THE SCORE THAT DOUBLES YOUR BONUS ROI
Not every player responds to the same bonus. Promo sensitivity scoring matches the offer to the player, transforming bonus spend from a cost to an investment.
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Four tables from your data warehouse: players, deposits, bonuses, and sessions/transactions. We need at least 6 months of history. We accept direct warehouse connections (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks) or Parquet/CSV exports via S3 or SFTP. An anonymised sample is fine for the initial scan.
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