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05-03-2011 , 09:44 AM

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Bad Beat Bill

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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 3,211

anyone play on Merge lately?
tons of new multitablers have cropped up, games are getting dry

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05-03-2011 , 11:20 AM

#102

astrobel

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Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,100

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Originally Posted by BadBeatsComing

20% of your entire business comes from one country? And thats small? By what measuring stick exactly? The U.S. player base dictated tourney start times on all of the sites. I think you need to reevaluate your argument.

The US is a key market, no doubt, but I have to admit that the decline of FTP has not been as pronounced as I had anticipated. Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Romania, Brazil. Those "emerging" markets are really adding up these days.

I mention Full Tilt cos it had always been thought to greatly depend on the US market.

It'd be nice to have a mega-site including the US, France, etc...... hopefully one day.

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05-07-2011 , 09:30 AM

#103

Stone_Palace

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Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 188

UPDATE (stats courtesy of PokerScout):

Merge now unofficially larger than 888 (Pacific Poker), keeps growing at 20 new players a day.

Bodog and Cake not moving up; they're basically stagnant (by choice in the case of Bodog?)

Merge had 1680 real money players playing at any one time in the past 7 days.

They have had a pretty steady growth of 20 new players each day since Black Friday. Forgetting the .it and .fr sites, only PokerStars, FullTilt, Party, iPoker and Ongame are larger.

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