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Originally Posted by iPlayPLOhigh
I'm sure bleeding the fish and ruining the fun and integrity of online poker tournaments is a great thing for long term stability.
The Sports Book thing is no excuse. Merge was bigger than Bovada for a very long time before they obliterated their network with a smaller Sportsbook than Bovada.
If you think multi entry tournaments are going to have a huge long term negative affect on online poker then you must under estimate how fish think. They will always come back for a chance to win. It's and itch they have. They just tell themselves, "I only lost last time because I got unlucky." Not to mention these sites Bovada, WPN, and Merge are not a long term solution for poker in the United States. In fact, I can't really seeing any of them, besides maybe Bovada, having significant traffic in the United States more than two years from now (I could be wrong, but that is my prediction, if state to state legislation continues to grow).
Merge became big after Black Friday because they immediately took advantage of the situation. Hero, Carbon, and Players Only, did an amazing job of promoting immediately when players were lost on what to do. WPN missed that oppurtunity, but are going to take a lot of business from Merge this year IMO.
Anyways, I got sidetracked. I understand your concerns, but I also don't want to see re entrys go away because the prize polls will be awful.
I think you are underestimated just how horrible the prize polls will actually be.