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Originally Posted by BeerBottlez
This is just an observation but it seems like Ultimate Poker is trying to slow their growth curve while still working tweaks out within the software and that is why they haven't expanded to 100bb tables, some larger stakes, and additional mtt's.
When they get more data as far as the software working better and the people in the casinos having a good grasp of what to do about deposits/cashouts then they will launch more stakes?
As for whether this is a great idea remains to be seen but if another licensed site launches soon then UP might be missing out on an opportunity by not growing quicker.
They're still in a 30 day trial period with the Nevada Gaming people. Because of this, they can't tweak the software too much. They could add 100bb tables, and never should have started with these 50bb abominations, but they're holding off for a few reasons. The biggest one is probably that with the sites traffic being low they can't have everyone pissing away all their money in big games, so to keep people playing they lower the scale of the games (thus a guy with $10k to throw around won't lose it at $50/$100 in an hour, he'll just play $3/$6 for a month) until a big enough base of players is secured, then they open up the games. So with a smaller player base you can't have 50 mtts competing for the sites say 500 online mtt players. Better to funnel them into 2-5 or whatever.
So it's not that they're trying to slow growth, it's that they are trying to funnel their traffic into the certain games to make sure the games/mtts run. When they have enough traffic for those games to run without destroying their current games they can expand. Right now 3-6 tables semi full per limit isn't too healthy, so it'll probably be a month before traffic reaches a point where it can support more tables.