Early Effects of NETeller on All US permitted Sites

[Macbeth]

Thought this was interesting, we will see how the number of players change going forward. Ref Pokersitescout

Early Effects of NETeller Leaving the U.S. Market on All Sites Accepting U.S. players

(Week-over-week comparison, Jan. 19, 2007 vs. Jan. 12, 2007)

Site/Network Ch_peak#pl ... Ch_in_av#pl

PokerStars...........-12.7%....... -11.7%
Full Tilt Poker......-25.4%........ -18.2%
Microgaming Network-7.5%........ -6.2%
UltimateBet.........-12.2%......... -8.4%
Bodog.............. -21.3%.........-18.2%

[Jack Bando]

Stars and Tilt appear to be back to the numbers from Dec 24th, some/most of the lost would appear to be the people who logged a lot of time during winter break going back to work/school.

If the numbers keep going down, then we might have some info.

[NoMeansYes_]

What is %s at Party? Is there any affect? Is the % higher then usual?

[Troll_Inc]

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Thought this was interesting, we will see how the number of players change going forward.

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What is the exact hypothesis you are testing? What metrics will you look at?

To consider:
Is Party Poker your control or all non-US sites together?
Last year, do you see a drop as January goes on?
Do most months have drops?

This sort of analysis is much more powerful looking forward and testing something than getting data, looking back, picking something out and saying "hey look at this effect".

[okietalker]

This is the middle of the end.

The good news is there will be a new beggining in a few years.

Just MHO

[antistuff]

this could also just be until people have gotten all set up with epassport.

[fatshaft]

Everest up, Party up, they are the big winners over the last week, this is not simply a general drop.

[Webster]

It's the end of the beginning - not the middle of the end.

The bubble has popped and now we will all be playing against otehr good players.

[Kneel B4 Zod]

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this could also just be until people have gotten all set up with epassport.

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some people will come back when new deposit methods are available. many more will just say the hell with it and not come back.

[Kneel B4 Zod]

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Everest up, Party up, they are the big winners over the last week, this is not simply a general drop.

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actually Party was down, Ongame was down, and Ipoker was down. none of these sites take US players - how did the Neteller thing affect them?