Maybe some sort of deposit bonus? You might find more info in your real money ledger (under "Account" on the main lobby).

If someone earns about 35% of their income of poker and the rest from somewhere else, is he or she a recreational player?

MJCACE and many of the others are NOT recreational players they are regs and most good regs.

MJCACE is 100% correct in his assessment of the situation regarding the rec players going broke fast with the current re-entry MTT situation.

I know several of the players commenting and many's source of income definitely comes from poker, many others at least 1/2 their income comes from poker making them semi-pros not recreational players. Most people consider the term recreational player a nice way to say fish.

Most of the people I've seen posting about protecting the recreational players are definitely not fish.

This is tilting for you?

I expect that some of the players commenting do derive income from poker, and there all sorts of definitions of "rec" players. Don't get too hung up on that - pretty obvious that people are referring to those who play much more casually and aren't doing things like 16-tabling with a HUD.

Looks like the saturday "major" got scrapped in the wake of 10k+ overlay last weekend, at least on Poker Host. What does the Carbon weekend schedule look like?

I appreciate you keeping this thread on track, even with everything that has gone one.

terrible....SB/PO side of merge cancelled the HR tonight for the second straight night. so tilting it cant go off. they need to re-consider what they call "high roller" on this sports betting side of merge. maybe make more $11, $22, and $33 gtds at night and create a high roller mtt for a $109 BI and call it a "wannabe high roller".

saturday big ticket $215 gone on carbon too

maybe i just dont play enough to see them but bring back more of the 3 dollar "deep turbo" tournies

The Nightly $11 had a $500 overlay tonight, whereas the guarantee was exceeded on Mon night. Just sayin...

One night is not a sample size.

I think that rec players can certainly also be regs. A lot of people who played for a living prior to Blackfriday don't rely as much as they used to on the income they derive from poker. Poker just doesn't provide the job security players thought they had prior to Blackfriday; they aren't as willing now to put all their eggs in on basket. They may now play for enjoyment rather than income, but for all practical purposes they are still regs.

Is there an email for merge that they will actually reply to? Would love to hear it if you've got it, thanks. Just looking for a refund from Sunday when one of my games 100% froze the entire time and I blinded out, while all my other games worked fine.

3 hour late redge, i love rebuying

merge must have finally freed up some cash, finally got my money credit for my check that bounced.

The one I use, and I always get a reply, is support@carbonpoker.ag. There isn't a Merge email address. If you use a site other than Carbon it should be the same just the site name is different, ex: support@pokerhost.ag

I work normally 3 or 4 days a week and get off at 1130 pm, with this new schedule there isn't a single dam tourney that I have any interest at all in playing at midnight or later, they really screwed up the midnight to 3:00 am tourneys, in fact other than the bigger nightly gtd's there is nothing else much worth playing, unless you want to play 10+1 750 gtd's with 2.5 hours late reg, I agree with what someone else said, bring back the old schedule and throw these new nightly gtds in the old schedule and add a 20+2 nightly gtd in the mix.

look at all these X'd tourneys between midnight and 4am cst, no one has any interest in playing a 10+1 250.00 gtd when they use to be 2k gtd, I believe by putting these extremely low gtd's on these tourneys they are just chasing players away and giving them no incentive to play them, I just look at the daytime schedule at peak times and seeing 10+1 250 gtd's, I seen a 20+2 at 1245 pm cst with a 250 gtd, wtf? 30+3 at peak time 7pm cst only 1k gtd, that's sick there, obv if they raise these gtd's people will play them, when you put a extremely low guarantee on them people aren't going to want to play it, only tournys really getting any players are these nightly gtds that actually have a decent guarantee on them, if they would take them 250.00 gtd's and make them 3k people will play them. geez new schedule really sucks balls except for 4 or 5 tournys

This. I logged in to play my normal 1AM pst guaranteed monday and it was gone. The closest thing to it had already been running for two hours. I was shocked to see with blinds at 250/500 and 19 left they were STILL offering registration. So, out of frustration i said screw it and bought in. Ended up winning it, which i'm sure frustrated the hell out of alot of people, myself included had i been in their shoes. The thing that bugs me, is we went to two table, back to three, and back FOUR times...completely annoying. After the game i looked over the late night schedule and tbh i don't see a reason to stay here, but no viable options to go to either, as i played juicy and bovada BEFORE coming here....so idk.

Yes these 3-4 hour late regs are ridic not only is it bad for the game with all the regs getting to re enter 10 times, but I would assume the fish hate how long the late reg is causing these tourneys to go on for ages. Sure everyone wants bigger gtds but this is not one way to go about it and if that means lowering the gtds so be it.

edit: obv get rid of all the $250 gtds

I haven't played on merge in a few months. Cliffs on the segregation of player pools I am hearing about?

All the degen sports betting players on sb/po are 100% separate from carbon and pokerhost. New tourney schedule which was supposed to be awesome is complete aids. There are like 5 playable tourneys a night and they all allow late reg at 5bb.

MJCACE is 100% correct. There's a story up at FlushDraw showing the farcical way the structure changes caused one Merge tourney to play out. Re-reg was going on down to 2 BBs and the bubble was carnage. In a HORSE tourney, ROFL.

Thanks Haley/diamond and others who see the things the same as I do. Honestly, even as a professional player, I am turned off by the late reg changes with unlimited re entries and don't even care/look forward to play these tourneys with the current format. I can only imagine what recreational players must be thinking about it . Merge is really fudging this up imo, but hey I'm sure they love the rake they are making over the short term before everyone else realizes how ridiculous these tourneys are.

Random brag: I almost made it to the end of late reg in the high roller last night on 1 bullet.

Edit: article link http://www.flushdraw.net/news/merge-network-angers-players-tournament-schedule-changes/

Im a rec player and hate this extended late reg so much! So many of the tournaments are unplayable. They take so much time and it doesnt even seem like real poker. I thought the 3 hr late reg was bad before but noooo, they needed to extend it a little more! You shouldn't be able to late reg with less than 10bbs. And I think they need to have some cap that late reg ends at 20bbs. Whoever runs these schedules are complete idiots. Late reg and unlimited re-entry is fine but you shouldn't be able to re-enter right at the bubble. But Im sure they'll find a way to **** this up even more. 24 hour late reg coming soon...

everyone hates it yes. heres the thing though, you are going to have to adapt and look at the angles to find the most +ev way to play the new structure. good players are still going to be winning, at least the prize pools are big.