Isn't this going to be great for cake/intertops players?

That's not how it works.

Yes.

I heard lock provided 60% of the traffic during the poker Maximus.

What do you mean that's not how it works? All of locks player will be transferring to cake so yes, it will decrease merges traffic tremendously.
I just hope merge and revolution prevail through all this. Would be sick to play on two legit online poker sites and not just one

It's likely that a good number of Lock's players will move back to Merge. It's not as likely that current Merge players on other skins will move to Lock.

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there is a lot more to be done, for Revolution to become competitive with Merge, and in the SR many of Lock's astute players will simply move to another Merge skin if they haven't done so already. In fact it wouldn't surprise me if we'll see some extra incentives being offered to this group by the current Merge skins that are represented here on 2p2.

I've already moved to another Merge room

Revolution network will be offering 36% dealt rakeback to all it's players. The current VIP program on Merge for the casual player is absolute garbage. Those players that were grandfathered into 35% contributed, myself included, would much rather go the dealt route anyways.

This combined with a reasonably sized player pool, new software updates, better tournament structures, and whatever other promotions they decide to offer will surely make revolution a success.

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^ haha so obvious

My guess to that is that many players who were going to buy in for the bigger tourneys just made a lock account because that was the site that they could actually get money off of quickly if they one.

I think the quote that you probably read early was something to the effect of we provided 60 percent of the buy ins to the Maximus.

The 35% rake back deal is actually 41% on merge since you get points worth an extra 6%. Merge certainly needs to fix some stuff if they really expect to meet their non-US player goals, but I have no reason to believe this new network will be any better.

Dumb question I guess but can I play lock in kentucky now. Kentucky is one of the restricted states.

Not a dumb question at all imo, were all US players allowed on cake or did they have some states blocked out as well? I'm not sure anyone not on the inside can answer with certainty at this time how Revolution will sit on players from the very anti-poker states. The decision to block certain states was made by the Merge network as a whole, the skins had no way to go against it once the network had set the rule. I could easily see it going either way.