Official Poker Site/Network Tracking thread

[whangarei]

Interesting data. PokerSiteScout, Sniper, et. al. thanks for posting this stuff.

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pokerstars + 1434
party -3941
<u>FTP + 1728</u>
<font color="red">-779 </font>

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What point you are trying to make with these numbers? The obvious "first-glance" conclusion is the online poker community lost 779 players from Party's US closure. But this is of course not accurate since this data represents seats and not individual players (right?), some Party refugees may play at other sites, etc.

Also, it seems from this two-week snapshot that Party lost about 40% of its seats so far. But I thought U.S. accounted for like 80% of its revenue. What is the explanation for this? Is it that US players play at higher stakes?