January Peak Player Numbers

Numbers are via PokerSiteScout The red line indicates the Neteller cutoff. Some interesting observations: * Stars was on a downward slope from the beginning of the year. The Neteller cutoff just steepened the curve. * Full Tilt was hanging pretty steady around that 8000 number until the cutoff. * The bill may be having a …

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Screw The Man

So Haley’s busting my chops about being too glass-half-empty. She made a comment about one of my posts which I won’t re-fight here because she’s wrong 🙂 But Haley was chop busting even before the comments on my blog. She had this to say on her site: I guess that’s why it frustrating to read …

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Neteller Shakeout Speed Linking

Rather than offer commentary I thought I would just post some links to a few quality posts I ran across. Russ Fox posted some very interesting thoughts. I especially like the way he addresses the issue people bring up about these companies being foreign and thus beyond the jurisdiction of US laws. The entire poker …

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Why ACH Went Away

As I’ve posted in the past, taking away EFT and ACH from the online gaming world is not difficult. In fact, it turns out that it’s a lot easier than even I thought it would be. Last week NACHA, which helps create rules for ACH providers and networks, published the following letter to its members. …

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So What Happened To The Poker Rooms This Week?

Well folks, a one week comparison is far from statistically relevant but let’s take a gander at what this week dished up compared to last week. Poker Room US 1/21 1/14 Change PokerStars Yes 12499 15153 -17.5% PartyPoker No 8482 8309 +2% Full Tilt Yes 5604 7255 -22.8% OnGame No 3957 3889 +1% Everest No …

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