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Originally Posted by BWillie
I don't think recreational players really care that the BbJ takes away from their winrate. If anything that's a plus for merge. I can't wrap my head around why everybody switched including rec players. Merge service, payouts, and software is all better.
yeah, thats the problem. it's tough to say why everyone just up and went to lock. my only guess is DJO giving out higher rb %'s than merge gives out, so a lot of ppl that were only getting 35% daily or up to 45% monthly on merge, made Lock accounts and got 60% through DJO, and then on top of that the 4k bonus and Ronin is a huge attraction. Like jah said, dealt rake is part of it too, as all the rakeback whores that used to just be empty seats on merge helping tables stay running, moved to lock. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if lock is putting a bunch of bots into their ring games to keep games running and push action. At this point, I don't know what if anything merge could even do to get people to come back. Hopefully the bigger bbj, and poker maximus in september will combine to bring a lot of play back onto merge. Merge seems to have put way too much focus into the huge rake race, and tournies. The problem with this, there's a ton of casual pro's who only play like 2-3 hours a day, maybe 50-60k hands a month, and they are helped almost none by the race to riches. The only people the rake race helps is people who put in 15k+ rake each month. There's literally 0 promos on merge that attract low or medium volume cash game players.
Last edited by DiscoBisco; 08-11-2012 at 04:15 PM.