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Originally Posted by MacauBound
mid stakes mix been goin pretty much every day now which is nice. I'm not sure what has prompted the extra action, but BTC has gone so high that some guys are getting $500+ in rb weekly for playing less than 5k hands/week!
Yeah, I have seen an increasing number of new players lately. And the bitcoin value rising and being in the news always helps. It seems like it would be the opposite but action has always increased as BTC rises.
I think part of it may be more people from other sites like Ignition learning about bitcoin and coming to try out SwC. I just played with a guy last night that said he had played on Ignition but was trying SwC because of the low rake.
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Originally Posted by MacauBound
At 2 AM EST there was a 15/30 2-7 and 3 player 5 pt OFC as well as 8-10 other games like 100PLO and smaller, some of which are pretty small.
But the mix games and OFC have been running pretty much everyday at decent stakes. As I said before, I'm not sure why there has been an increase in traffic over the last month or two; maybe it has something to do w the rise in BTC.
Also, w these off shore sites serving Americans, they all seem to **** us over at some point, so the longer a US facing site can be reputable and sustain a little traffic, the farther it gets ahead by other sites (like Merge) and even Bovada/Ignition doing things to sabotage their poker growth.
Agree. It depends on the time of day, what stakes and which games you want to play, but for the most part you can usually find action.
Big O seems to be the most popular game, along with OFC... and then depending on what people were in the mood for that day stuff like 2-7, 12-game and Dealers Choice.
A lot of time there are more of those games running than NLH - probably because you can play NLH anywhere - but even there I've always found that once you get 2 players going you can usually get 6.
I've heard a lot of players that say they don't want to play HU but will join when it's 3 handed. So if you're willing to play HU for awhile and hit the "Request Action" button you should be able to get a table going up to 200nl most times.
Plus you get 50% rakeback while playing 2 or 3 handed.