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kyleb,

Can I make another bold prediction? I predict you are one of those weak-tight (as in too tight not properly tight) rocks who refuse to start games in both online and B&M venues because you don't want to face the blind costs and attendant higher variance of such short-handed play while waiting for the game to fill. Thus you smugly expect others to start those games for you and arrive late when you can sit in a full game. You doubtless are the guy who immediately sits out when someone else does online and starts the cascade reaction that leads to the table breaking (and which also proves the pathetic game selection "skills" of weak-tights).

The bottom line is that you seek to maximize your short term interests because you don't wish to be a long term pro, while myself and others seek the opposite. So we have competing interests and will attempt to advance same differently via the poker sites. For myself and others, we will gladly give most of our action to the first site that restricts multi-tabling and also requires higher minimum buyins in big bet games, happily leaving you 12-tablers to play with each other. Our fish will stick around longer than yours in such a scenario and thus canabalism won't be necessary. And our site whatever it may be, will actually have a better earn in the long run. There are actually some sites that fit that bill for me and my like minded players, except in two areas, the minimum buyins and a sufficiently large player pool. But whichever major site takes the long term view and caters to us, gets all our action as long as they also spend enough on marketing to grow their player base. It's a niche waiting to be filled. I wish stars would fill that niche, but I don't care which site does, because that site will be the best one via better fish retention to play on.