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I don't know about the higher stakes games but it seems like the casual player pool is drying up on the lower stakes NLHE games. I see lots of the same 6-8 tabling regulars at the low stakes games and few single table novices.

For one, a lack of regular bonuses hurts, I'm sure it would keep lots of marginal players from busting quicker. Inability for existing accounts to get rakeback doesn't help. Being able to get rakeback may keep some of the breakeven players from leaving for other sites.

Additionally FTP's rake at lower stakes games seems to be somewhat high, a breakeven or marginal winner in the NL10 -NL50 games is probably a loser with rake especially if they're not playing with rakeback.