Looks like an awesome place, enjoy the vacay
Definitely inspiring for a new affiliate such as myslef. I hope to be there soon. Congrats and have fun!
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Yea right man, I'm sure Alicia is not considering this a "working vacation" at all. You better shut the laptop down during the day. Although as an affiliate, I'm sure you'll be online after the wife/kids are in bed until the wee hours of the morning. <-----So standard for us.
Enjoy yourself MJ, we have a ton of work to do in 2009
Yeah, have a nice time and try to rest some ;)
Have a great time on your vacation. Take a break from that computer!
Well, I will come out of field-size-prop-bet retirement and give beanie more action if he wants.
Not sure about that Shaniac, the 25k at WPT got 338 runners and this WSOP event is one of only two televised - I think it will be close.
How is this even close? I'd take the under on 300 if I wasn't retired from prop-betting on field sizes (after failing miserably on the 25K). And in reality I think there will be between 150-200 players. 500 seems ridiculously optimistic.
Surely the recession won't impact a tournament with such a massive buy-in too much, I'd say the demographic willing to spend $40k to enter a single poker tournament is as strong now as ever. It wouldn't surprise me to see the WSOP main event numbers down this year though.
Definitely the under. Good luck.
I think you'll be safe with the under.
I'd take the under on that bet as well. Gl!
I think it's because PokerStars' software is fast, easy, feature-rich, stable, etc. A lot of rooms have all sorts of nonsensical web-based crap in their clients or they have flash or whatever else. PokerStars' software is just incredible compared to the rest of the industry. Only Full Tilt comes close. Even things like not being too pushy is really big. I think PokerStars is the only site that doesn't pop up a login box when you open the site. At least with FTP you can just hit "observe". But some sites make it so you have to create an account before you can even see which games have traffic. They probably think to themselves "oh well now people have to make an account" but I actually think it hurts much more than it helps. I could ramble on for awhile longer but this is enough. FWIW, I agree that the money stuff is a huge factor too. But I don't think it's as simple as that.
Don't think is a monopoly when is the best. I can see how stars is doing for example with TV on Italy and Spain and sign-ups are growing with just an article about "The new <channel> poker event"
A monopoly is NOT a good thing for our industry though Mac, competition is healthy and this is where rooms need to start competing.
Except for easy to win (soft competition) stars is the number one on every characteristic you check. And nobody will get near them,, ever.
Pokerstars neteller withdraw also rocks. Funds are credited to your account INSTANTLY. Having to wait for 7 days+ like at pkr for eksample just sucks, and thats a real turn of.
Thanks Randy, I certainly was just typing as fast as I could think and not proof reading but the point is players really do expect the easy access to their cash. A quick visit to popular poker forums will verify this, people are happy when they get free fast cashouts and pissed off when they pay $35 to wait 8 weeks. I guess it's worth noting that Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet also have the deposit and cashout situation nailed, the difference being $8 cashouts. Credit cards have always worked at UB/AP and that's why they stayed in business after the scandal, because players who got shut down at Full Tilt and others said "fuck it" and went and deposited again at Cereus. In any event, man.....players in other countries have it so good. Do you remember the days of bonus whoring where you could cashout $500 from Full Tilt via Neteller or Epassporte and have it in your account in an hour to go try another poker room and clear a bonus (like at Cake?). I know I sure did this kind of crap as a donk player back in the day, think about how many poker rooms would at least get action if this was the case still. Hopefully the next few years clears the air a bit, we're swaying in the wind right now.
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