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All,
I don't think this announcement changes anything. Just makes it more likely that Stars rather than UB or FullTilt becomes the new biggest poker site.
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Several of us prefer that.
Plus, losing the two biggest sites would suck from a pr perspective, whereas this makes Party look like the odd duck, and if the average fish asks why Party left and others stayed they hear, "b/c they're public" and they accept that.
And regardless of all that, there's a player volume issue. Any time a site closes, a lot of the fish will just flat quit rather than go to a new site. I have a few friends who play some on Stars and wouldn't go out of their way to go somewhere else if Stars closes, especially because their impression of online poker would be damaged. Stars stays open, all those types stay, and because Stars has a lot of players, them staying is pretty big.
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