***Official Merge Network Regs thread***

[Petro]

Originally Posted by Leader

I'm guessing this includes a lot of HU/super short or is over a small sample.

That's correct about HU/super short handed. Plus, these numbers are from last year, so it's possible the rake has changed.

[lawdude]

Rake Pretty Massive

[boomersooner1989]

Jus talked to friend who said merge might be dropping U.S. players????? was this guy jus being a big D or have others heard similar????

[antneye]

Originally Posted by boomersooner1989

Jus talked to friend who said merge might be dropping U.S. players????? was this guy jus being a big D or have others heard similar????

Anything is possible in this environment. I think the statement "X poker site" may drop US players always has to be on the table as a possibility.

With that said, I wouldn't react to rumors. So far they have said they aren't going anywhere.

[lawdude]

Regular Players Mediocre

[correllium]

Real Pissing Match

[C Bids]

I read in the carbon thread in the zoo that 2 skins are leaving the US not Merge.

[C Bids]

Can someone who has been playing recently tell me how many micro stake(.25-.5 and below) games are going?

[boomersooner1989]

Any one know which two? Spoke with RPMSeth but he said he could only speak for RPM and was not aware of any service change.

[lawdude]

Originally Posted by C Bids

Can someone who has been playing recently tell me how many micro stake(.25-.5 and below) games are going?

They are extremely fishy.

There aren't that many of them, and at times you will have to play 6-max instead of full ring.

I'm starting to realize how oppressive the rake is. You get some of it back through rakeback but it's 40 cents a hand at 50c/1 and 20 cents a hand at 25c/50c, which is twice as much as Stars averaged. Minus the 35 percent you get back in rakeback, it's 26 and 13 versus 20 and 10 at Stars. 6 cents a hand at 50c/1 is $6 per 100 hands, or 6BB/100.

I'm not sure that the micro stakes limit games on Merge are beatable long term.

[RonMexico]

Rake per Millisecond

[C Bids]

Originally Posted by lawdude

They are extremely fishy.

There aren't that many of them, and at times you will have to play 6-max instead of full ring.

I'm starting to realize how oppressive the rake is. You get some of it back through rakeback but it's 40 cents a hand at 50c/1 and 20 cents a hand at 25c/50c, which is twice as much as Stars averaged. Minus the 35 percent you get back in rakeback, it's 26 and 13 versus 20 and 10 at Stars. 6 cents a hand at 50c/1 is $6 per 100 hands, or 6BB/100.

I'm not sure that the micro stakes limit games on Merge are beatable long term.

I figured the games were fishy and I play 6max and don't mind starting tables.


What's the minimum deposit and what's the smallest stakes offered on Merge?

[icallunoob]

any US players SUCCESSFULLY cashout and receive it AFTER black friday?

[reaper6788]

small player pool and height of rake makes this look not worth it imo. I'd rather take my chances shot taking live.

[TD-74]

Yea, the rake is atrocious. I wrote to feedback/suggestions on Carbon expressing this, pretty much just saying that if they are interested in higher fix limit traffic they need to implement same rake structure as stars. So far they've been receptive to player suggestions, it would help if more players would let them know that they will not deposit with the current rake. If they do change the rake structure, after playing on the site for 10days, I'd say it's not a bad option to have.