Is it just me or has the traffic gone way down compared to 2018?

Well they got rid of 10/20.... big mistake by them imo or is it a sign that their site is losing numbers fast?

It was one of the only US sites that was worth playing on... 10/20 is reasonable stakes for online and as many as 8 tables would go.... can't believe they ruined it.

Traffic is down at the mid/higher stakes for sure. Mix of high rake, some of big losers quitting and regs not table starting. I guess I'm a "bum hunter" in the sense that heck no I'm not going to battle HU with their rake structure. If they gave me some incentive rather than losing money I'd be inclined to try and get some tables going.

I think a bad beat jackpot would serve this site very well. I remember playing Absolute Poker back in the day and the donks would come in droves whenever the BBJ got high enough.

what i usually do to start a table at the lower stakes is join and sit out right away. a second player will join and sit out, and then we'll sit in when the 3rd player join. then all the bad regs who refuse to start a table file in behind pretty quickly

Traffic is WAY down at nl200-600 compared to even January. There is honestly no reason to deposit on the site for a new player...no big tourneys, no cashback, no casino, no sportsbook, no paypal. Global needs to do something to get people to return or new players to deposit.

I would start tables all day but with no adjusted rake it doesn't make any sense so I don't bother to do it with regs. I guess I am bad reg for not wanting to pay 20bb/100 or whatever in rake.

Lol at people never starting tables and then complaining about whats wrong with a poker site. Laughable. Sacrificing ev for future ev is something i guess lizard brains cannot understand.

I would start tables if:
1) Games wouldn't break super fast
2) They fix the button glitch
3) There was reduced rake short

It's not actually very plus EV for me to start tables I can max out my screen space by playing on other sites.

I still play on Global quite a bit, but not nearly as much as I used to. Way better options for mtt's and cash games out there. I have noticed the traffic decline a bit as well. Some nights it's popping but that seems pretty rare. Globals priorities have been mixed up imo. Focusing on gimmicky sng jackpots and avatars rather than bounty tourneys or fixing technical issues they have on their site etc. I know some people who have left the site entirely.

They may not offer many incentives and have declining traffic, but if you are willing to send them an acceptable copy of an ID, a utility bill, because no matter where you live, you MUST have a utility bill of course, and a selfie or video of you, not sure if it's on a unicycle, you MIGHT be allowed to withdraw, pending further requirements of course.

Out of everything to get on global about cash outs isn’t one. Of course you want a site to check people’s identities. This site would be more overrun with ROW players/bots if not.

Yeah this isn't true at all. I've never had an issue withdrawing from them and get my payouts quickly into my bank account. Most sites require a utility bill...I remember having to send Stars one. FWIW global has never asked me for a utility bill but I don't think it's a big deal to provide them with one.

Also steps like these are important to keep Euros and bots out.

imo its very +EV to start a table if you can manage to play short handed for a few hands.

start new tables when there are no open tables. no open seats means the traffic is high enough to fill tables. when there are a lot of tables with open seats, its a bad time to start a table because your new table wont get filled quickly.

when you start a new table at the right time (no open seats at any other tables) it will fill quickly. I promise.

when it does fill, it will be more likely to have recreational players filing some of those seats because recreational players come and go more frequently than the grinders who load up their max number of tables and only look for a new table when one of theirs dies.

so being more likely to play against recreational players makes it very +EV to start a new table, as long as you dont already have a bunch of tables up and cant afford the extra attention needed to play short handed.

seriously, youll play like 3 hands short handed before the table fills. dont be a baby.

I actually have been starting tables lately but it doesn't matter. There are 2 tables of 6m nl200 now at 730pm EST on a Thursday.

Traffic is actually a joke now.

greedy pigs won't lower the rake even though it's prob costing them more money to have higher rake but less tables.

Penny wise but dollar foolish

Yeah, I haven't been playing on the site very long, maybe 6 months, and I've noticed a huge decline even in the past few weeks. Really sucks trying to get games going.

right because you know better than the site how to run a poker site.

Yeah it's dead and they've done nothing about it to help the cause, time to choose other avenues than global. Best of luck fellas

I think that i might see something that could be apart of the traffic problem. In the past week, I've been trying to top up my account with $1k gold coin purchases. And for basically the entire week, the payment fails nearly every time. In close to 100 tries, i've gotten through to the 'add a preferred' card window 3 times in total, with no clear reason as to why it wouldn't be working. I have no card on file and when i try to add a preferred card, a separate browser window opens for a second, then closes, then it navigates back to the cashier where it displays that my payment has failed and it can't be completed at this time. I've contacted support and the problem has been "escalated", but now it's been a 5 day turnover with no response. Just fyi, I've tried clearing my cookies and cache, using a different browser, resetting my machine, using multiple different devices (with different OS) and nothing has worked. My account is in good standing and i have no pending cashouts.

The problem i'm experiencing is the same as this user:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...&postcount=906

Unfortunately I think you're spot on. Their efforts to quickly sort out any gold coin purchases do not appear urgent at all but if they actually checked traffic of every format I think they might decide it would be an ok idea to invest 0.001% of the marketing budget and get someone to sort it out.

2018 cash games 50% regs and 50% fish. 2019 cash games 95% regs and 5% fish. 2018 100% americans 2019 around 70% americans 30% off shore players including russians (just guessing)= traffic declined. So i think thats what makes traffic go down in general when people notice the sites full of regs they are going to leave especially with no rake back.

Poker players who grind online poker definitely know better on how to run a online poker site then these poker site owners. They have a college diploma so they think they know more. But the people that grind know the issues, know what needs to be fixed, and what kind of promotions would bring more recreational players way better then any of these guys with suits on who don't grind poker or play recreationally. They should hire poker players to make these online poker sites better. It would the best business decision to trust a poker player to fix the issues the poker site has and do the marketing for the site.

Thing is this doesnt explain the new multi-tabling regs who popped up in recent weeks.

Except the only people who have access to the revenue data and costs are the site. As a poker player, you should know that you cant make an informed profitable decision if you dont know how much is in the pot or how much the bet is.

Did you read the comment i was replying to? How does he think he can lossibly know how rake is affecting the revenue of the site?

Never? Has it even been a year since the "you've won the prize of trying out a new withdrawal method, you're so lucky and you have no other options" ?