$4 nlhe forced to move up to $10 nlhe.

$25 nlhe voluntarily moving down to $10 nlhe to take advantage of the above.

Some juicy action happening at 10nl currently, but when it's been 8 weeks since a check request and nothing still, u start to wonder if you're playing for monopoly $.

Once the 4nl players lose all of their money at the 10nl games, I don't see why they would bother redepositing on Merge when they can go to another site and play 4nl.

Also Merge just lowered their redeposit bonus' and made them more difficult to clear. Not such great timing to do that.

SantaCruz as usual making all the sense in the world.

I get creating a 2/3 blind structure for games like 3/6 and 15/30, but for stakes with even numbers to begin with, forcing the blinds into an odd ratio just seems like a joke. When I saw 4/8 with a 3/4 blind structure, I just rolled my eyes and opened a 2/4 table thinking, what are the blinds here, $1.50/$2.00? And it is!

What a joke. I had actually considered trying Merge out again for old time's sake because Bovada had been kicking my ass lately and I was excited for their new Grand Prix promo, but now I'm definitely not. Their stakes had been a staple for so many years. I do not understand why they are messing with the formula yet again.

Thanks Dark horse!

Long time no see.

i dont play limit, but was looking for understanding with post i quoted.

if before the blind changes, weak players were playing too many hands from the sb, how does the altered blind structure change the ev of the weaker players in a strictly post flop game from the small blind position? the hand ranges of people playing to many hands from the sb before the new blinds hasnt changed. right? maybe? prob not?

All hands will have a flop so total rake will go up, that's clearly bad. It's unclear to me whether win rate of good players will increase.

I think what bravos is saying is that some players play too loosely from the small blind simply because they've already put some money in.

Now that a larger amount is put in for them, it is now correct for them to see a flop whereas before it wasn't.

LHE more than NLHE is, in part, about small edges and pot odds. So small differences can make a difference, in the long run, in how hands are played.

Whats with the cashouts.. usually through skrill it takes 7 days tops... I know site is a bit slower but now i am waiting for 12 days still nothing?

I'm in a similar situation.

The skrill timeframe is 7-10 business days. They're based in Costa Rica, which has had 4 public holidays in the last 2 weeks, so we're still within the timeframe if we don't count those. Hopefully that's the reason for the delay.

I see... so when does that holiday end?

http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/costa-rica/

Anyone know why Sharkscope doesn't track SNGs any more?

BINGO, Merge just lost this customer.. Was about to rebuy this week to give me something to do when I travel next week playing some 4nl. New site here I come!

Why is 4NL so popular on merge?

not sure, I joined 1.5 years ago when looking for a US room and have been disappointed with the traffic levels but still had my initial buyin so just kept messing with it. I'm a casual breakeven player so my buyins last awhile. I slowly feed the sharks lol.

Whats best room for US players right now?

Bovada is the best in the u.s.
-biggest player pool
-anonymous screennames
-very fast cashouts
-very soft player strength wise

Wpn:
- rakeback
- More regs
-fast cashouts

Chico:
-very soft
Pretty fast cashouts
-no hud

I prefer WPN to Bovada. Bovada's has a lot of rec players but it seems that more and more regs are playing there lately. For those interested in the micro cash games, Bovada has 5nl but WPN has both 2nl and 5nl. Also WPN has much better support here on 2+2 and has several fast cashout options (checks, p2p transfers, debit cards and bitcoin).

Whether or not players like anonymous tables or not is a personal choice. I think that those who like anonymous tables should probably play on Bovada and those who don't should play on WPN.

I'm an Aussie but I just can't play ACR merge etc due to player pools at my peak euros wake up when I load up tables on 888

So just play ps.. wth do u wanna play on us sites for? or play bovada.

Thanks for the breakdown, gonna look over both sites this weekend and find which I wanna put 200 bucks on for some micro nl

using my last 10 bucs on a 10nl table and doubled up so far. lol fingers crossed

He can't play on Bovada.

well then punch me in the crotch y dont u...

wth would anyone want to play the cancer that is stars cash games?

Especially at lower stakes. I could see it at 50nl