Only a suggestion can you delete a phone verification so that people can easily register? Mosly people want to play anonymously.
This is the primary reason I tend to stay away from such sites. Phone verification is basically a form of KYC verification which reveals our identities in some form or another.
There are a lot better alternatives out there who don't ask for any form of KYC and only need your username and email basically. These websites need to get rid of such KYC systems if they wish to attract more gamblers.
You are writing halftrue and presenting it like the truth.
Pokersite doesn't ask for phone number, fantasy site does. This is the truth.
Now, everyone who is not ignorant and who has played poker for longer than a month on centralized poker sites that take 5-10% of the pot per hand, knows that there are 0 alternatives to no rake poker cash games.
Zero.