they are back to the original way, i liked the newer structure then theyjust tok it away later that night lol

Second seeing some weird **** happen to my tables. Chips turning a shady black color, cards not appearing, stuff that hasn't really effected my game except for visually.

If there are any regulars here who are on A gear like myself who are playing tomorrows freeroll and wanna swap a % pm me.

Did anyone notice how RPM quietly got rid of the 6:10PM EST $16.50 Shorthanded Bounty game, the one where you could use $2.50 worth of VIP Points to ay for the $5 Bounty portion of the buyin?

It's still there on Black Chip Poker and other Merge skins. I was using up all my VIP Points on this game every day for a while and I guess they just got tired of me doing that.

Thinking about depositing. How often have checks bounced? (Looked at the withdrawal thread and didn't see any)

Wondering this myself, and if anybody has any experience cashing out with Black Chip Poker? Thanks!

John

Wtf is this? I didn't play for 3-4 days, and all my settings are gone. My client looks like if it was a fresh install. Is it happened to anyone else?

Happened to me once after I had to force a shutdown when the client locked up, all of my settings were gone and it wouldnt let me change any of the defaults. Apparently when I forced the shutdown I corrupted the options file, I had to reinstall and select "delete options file" when it gave me the option. After that I could customize my settings again.

uggghhh. Why RPM lower the guarantees in the morning mtts? I know lock is leaving tomorrow, but come on, at least wait and see if there will be an overlay. These morning mtts never had an overlay. (the $800, $1500 rebuy)

Just began playing on Merge/RPM for the first time.. When is there typically the most sng traffic? $22, $33, $55, $110's? I'm looking for 6 max and 9 person turbos, but it seems like mostly all that fill up regularly are just super turbos.

Pretty much. Evenings are best though for traffic. And Sundays of course.

is lock leaving gonna hurt us ?

It has already helped you. There is a high probability that Merge RB has returned because of the new competition about to start with Lock/Cake. Merge RB is way better for 99% of the players than the lame bazallion point VIP method. And the return of RB is just one example of how the competition will force Merge to get off their ass and improve things.

Officially on RPM tonight! Wish me luck all! Hope to get into some smaller sng and win em

Looks a bit thin now, with split of pool. Hopefully some will wonder back, competition is good but split pools is bad ...

Dmyers....

What were the #'s like? I didn't get to play last night.

And not just that! I just realized that the client deleted all the hand history files as well...ridiculous. Fortunately they are imported into HEM, but how the hell could I export over 1000 tourny HH's to be able to import them again?

Basically, one half the tables that are usually running at high micros .. 2/4 no table 1/2 1 table 3/6 1 table and 2 or 3 .5/1 ..

I think a fair amount of the regs were playing lock with better payout times. Didn't see the usually regs, but may be just a one day anomaly ..

Checked my intertops games and maybe one more table running there but it is hard to keep rolls at correct buy in levels and my rakeback is much worse on revolution. We are experiencing another tough spell in gaming but hopefully more will wonder back to the merge tables. Weekend will give a better view and games have more fish at top of month it seems to me.

Promo's will make me grind NL4 for hands,

Less regs may not be a bad thing...were the tables softer? i have a feeling folks will end up making accounts on merge skins and simply spread there play between the two, especially for limit. I don't see this as a long term big thing.

Although, if it gets Merge to FINALLY address Limit rake structure that would be a good thing.

Regs are double edged, we take the fish money (bad), but we provide tables and start tables (good). I was playing .5/1 and 1/2 so these games are always pretty fishey .. I'm underrolled at the moment for 3/6. I can start but need to be at the top of my roll for the variance.

Limit/micro rake adjustments would be the biggest help, but considering they just lost 30% of there traffic I doubt much change will come until they feel they are losing out to other sites.

I think revolution rake is better more stepped and smaller max. I don't play there enough to know.

Please, please merge review limit rake it is just brutal.

When someone said Lock had 40% of Merge's traffic, that basically meant all the regs/sharks were on that site, precisely because their cashouts were faster than the rest of Merge.

I'm fairly certain far more regs/sharks left than fish, although some will hop to a new skin, and that people are going to have to suck it up and play a little HU/SH to start and sustain games.

I'd be happy to game start and play some HU if the Merge LHE rake structure didn't suck so badly. Heads up your just watching the money fly off the table. I hate to sound like a broken record but they REALLY need to fix it. I've never struggled to maintain a solid winrate, but since being forced to play on Merge Ii have been a net loser and break evenish thanks to RB. Tougher games are a part of it, but the Rake in terms of BB/100 is much higher than what I was paying on Stars and Tilt. Enough to turn me from a winner to a loser before RB.

If traffic picks up on revolution, and the rake structure is better you will find me taking my play there.

I think stars is in the range of 2.4 or so BB/100 at 1/2, 2/4 and here in 6max you will find it to be 3.8 or so .. so if your a 1 bb winner now your a .4 loser, tough rake. I've given up winning, most regs have losing graphs on PTR, its all about the rakeback. If I can breakeven I get about 1.7BB /100 .. which is enough to pull a little and grind. Either that or get to 5/10 where it starts to decrease, but the games are tough up there and the rolls need to be big. I got there but couldn't stay.

You also have to table/seat select like mad. Regs at 1/2 etc are really no better or worse, just no money to be won. .5/1 and most 1/2 games are fairly profitable but the rake eats up most of your winnings. 2/4 and up its mostly sharks chasing a fish or two.

The limit rake has been complained about for over a year without any results. Every once in a blue moon someone would chime in and say that the software wasn't built to handle changing the rake by game type or something like that. I don't know if that is true or not. When the new software is released in the next few days and doesn't contain a limit rake fix then you can conclude Merge clearly doesn't give a hoot about limit.

The clearest proactive player solution if you want to play limit is to play NINE handed.

yeah all of the limit playes will be moving over to revolution if its not fixed in the update