Official IPoker Thread - Page 503 - Live Low-stakes No Limit Poker Forum

does anyone know if the decline of ipoker traffic is restricted to their network only. ive looked at pokerscout and it seems pokerstars is also down circa 20% over the last 6 months, which is kinda worrying

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Originally Posted by grinder_jyms

All the sites are losing traffic for obvious reasons, but iPoker has lost it's 3rd place standing and has by far the worst drop as of late.

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Originally Posted by ChrisV

You have to factor in seasonal variation. Summer in the northern hemisphere is a time of lower traffic on poker sites for obvious reasons, so a comparison of smack in the middle of summer versus 6 months earlier is going to be pretty terrible. I'm not sure what the size of the seasonal variation is though.

iPoker will obviously be dropping more than most for a huge range of reasons (driving grinders off the site with the rakeback crackdown, software issues recently, the fact that it's such a massive nitfest now, etc)

Jesus, I remember over 18 months ago I used to play donkaments, looking at the g'teeds for all the over $50s is lol, they have basically nearly all reduced by 40/50%.
Party taking over 3rd is a trend only going one way.
Shame.

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07-24-2010 , 03:18 PM

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Daddy Warbucks

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Originally Posted by kjemmy

i havent had any trouble in a while now

Booted me 3 times the last 2 days, just upped and closed all the tables with a "cannot connect to gaming server" message. It is of course a massive improvement, but c'mon.

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07-24-2010 , 03:19 PM

#12554

Daddy Warbucks

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Originally Posted by KBGE

Party taking over 3rd is a trend only going one way.
Shame.

Meh, people said the same thing when Party (obviously) dropped from 1st, then kept slipping and slipping (because their rewards scheme was awful). It really wouldn't take much for iPoker to turn this around, but realistically, there doesn't seem to be much hope of them making good informed decisions.

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07-24-2010 , 03:42 PM

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imfromsweden

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I just don't get how such an incompetent management could even create a site that got so popular in the first place.

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07-25-2010 , 07:19 AM

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Greco

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Prob something to do with the incentives offered for playing. They can def make ground back up. They just need to improve their sponsorship. This may be problematic for a network like iPoker but they do need a fresh influx of players

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07-25-2010 , 07:26 AM

#12557

$upermad4it

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at least 2 people play on xx00x0x1 account

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07-25-2010 , 12:09 PM

#12558

M.H.L.

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Originally Posted by $upermad4it

at least 2 people play on xx00x0x1 account

really? why do you think that ?

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07-25-2010 , 12:21 PM

#12559

$upermad4it

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well I should say that I suspect that its the case. Unless he flips a coin to decide whether to play 1 style or another that day

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07-25-2010 , 12:42 PM

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imfromsweden

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He is indeed very strange

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07-25-2010 , 06:42 PM

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fretelöo

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There's a number of players on iP with very similar s/n's.

infre495
infre592
infrequ13
infrequ131
infrequ134

Maybe there're even more of them. Seems strange somehow to have that many players come up with the same not-so-obvious s/n and upon learning that it's already taken accept a bungled-up version of it. Anyone else played these guys before? Seem to be NL players who occasionally dabble in HU LHE.

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07-25-2010 , 11:53 PM

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108

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Originally Posted by $upermad4it

well I should say that I suspect that its the case. Unless he flips a coin to decide whether to play 1 style or another that day

Possible - he does play a ton of hands, and seems to have a weird/changing style.

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Originally Posted by imfromsweden

He is indeed very strange

Still, he's on my buddy list. =)

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Originally Posted by fretelÃ¶o

Couldn't this be the generic username for some skin? Like there's a ton of TTRXXXXXX and expectXXXX or something aren't there?

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07-26-2010 , 07:55 AM

#12563

M.H.L.

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Originally Posted by 108

Still, he's on my buddy list. =)

same here

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07-26-2010 , 08:35 AM

#12564

KBGE

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Originally Posted by fretelÃ¶o

Possibly just the same guy with 5 accounts on ipoker with different skins.

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07-26-2010 , 08:43 AM

#12565

Daddy Warbucks

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Yeah, a lot of people choose the similar name thing esp if they start tables or play HU to avoid shadiness with other regs.

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07-26-2010 , 10:36 AM

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Vodkas

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Originally Posted by imfromsweden

I just don't get how such an incompetent management could even create a site that got so popular in the first place.

catchy name... PARTY... everybody wants party

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07-27-2010 , 01:29 AM

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Mr. Wishbone

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Originally Posted by Vodkas

catchy name... PARTY... everybody wants party

Ipoker = party? In what language is that?

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07-27-2010 , 06:05 AM

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vancouverspecial

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how come there's only ~5 2/4+ games running?

Last time I logged in was ~8months ago and the site had tons of games.

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07-27-2010 , 06:08 AM

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$upermad4it

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its quiet this time of day. There are only 3 tables running. I'm sitting at another 2 waiting for customers, come play.

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07-27-2010 , 06:43 AM

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vancouverspecial

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lol I'd love to. I'm working with a 1 buyin roll though.

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07-27-2010 , 09:11 AM

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108

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Originally Posted by vancouverspecial

how come there's only ~5 2/4+ games running?

Last time I logged in was ~8months ago and the site had tons of games.

2/4 has been terrible. It's like 1/2 has become the new mid-stakes, there's scores of 1/2 going sometimes, and only a couple of 2/4. 2/4 is the new 5/10.

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07-27-2010 , 09:19 AM

#12572

$upermad4it

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10 buyins won before breakfast. Gonna be a good day

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07-27-2010 , 10:24 AM

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ChrisV

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Originally Posted by 108

2/4 has been terrible. It's like 1/2 has become the new mid-stakes, there's scores of 1/2 going sometimes, and only a couple of 2/4. 2/4 is the new 5/10.

Yeah this.

I'm in the process of getting out of the pro poker game, it's only going to get worse imo.