yeah Stars usually has 3-4x as many as Tilt.

because stars is the worlds #1 poker site so they gotta display a huge amount of players at all times to appear credible.

Wow this is bad. You're making the assumption that every new player went to the new tables. They are actually distributed amongst the new tables and the old ones.

good point. ty.

I wasn't making any assumptions btw.

i think on stars it goes by the amount of real money players logged in. Or maybe it counts play money players, but not their tables? I dunno. I wish this was the most of my life worries though. Props to you OP.

does a player playing four tables count as four or one?

Really this is what my life has come to to actually be pathetic enough to open this thread at 12:45 on a Saturday evening Fml fml.

there was already a thread on this.

it was confirmed that stars counts a player multi tabling as multiple people.

ftp doesnt.

why has pokerstars got?

erm

so assuming the average stars player plays on more than 2 tables, which im sure is very likely...FTP actually has more players

what does rush poker count as?

I wanted to post something appropriate to the general inanity of this thread, but couldn't think of anything unintelligent enough to actually make a post.

Lee

I´m 12 players at Stars then.

So stars counts players similarly to how they count votes in an Iranian election?

To further stir the pot, Party shows 33k players on 22k tables.

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If I recall correctly from the old thread where this was discussed then the number of players that are shown are calculated differently by FTP and PStars.
x Players on FTP = Amount of players currently logged in. (1 player logged in and playing 16 tables count for 1 player)
x players on PStars = Amount players currently seated on a table (24-tablers count for 24 persons)

PStars mentioned something about why they calculate their number as they do. I believe they said even if one player plays 20 tables, that one player still contributes to those 20 running tables. Those 20 tables are available and real. If you count him at only 1 you'll miss 19 seats that can be played against even if not unique.

And PStars mentioned that if there were to count it like FTP did then PStars number would in fact be higher than it currently is.

Stars counts every seat taken as a player. Fulltilt counts people online.

How is this even possible? Railtards?

I just look at PokerScout...

This imo.
Is this true?

BOTS ldo !!!!

Pokerstars still has more people people than FTP.

Given the ration which site has more fish?

ummm, no.

In Iran, they only count those
who have not been jailed, tortured, or killed
within the 72 hours following the election.

I've been told that Tilt, Stars, Party, and Cake have had mondo praise heaped on them from Amnesty International because of this.
[as well as their contribution to making the Great Firewall of China look like swiss cheese]


I hope I didn't offend any Swiss in the above paragraph btw.

Pokerstars has rs03rs03 and Fulltilt doesn't.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54...-1-don-666062/