Official Poker Site/Network Tracking thread

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sniper would it be possible to start doing a line chart based on weekly avg or total online players

so right now for example we would have 4 data points starting with the week before legislation.

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[censored] does this chart from Sciolist show what you are looking for?...

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Other news this week...

William Hill has announced the surprise departure of Tom Singer, chief operating officer, with immediate effect. Singer had been with the company for six years.

Leisure & Gaming has appointed Henry Birch as its new chief executive and has also chosen Corporate Synergy as its new advisors and brokers. The company also announced the detail of the sale of its US-facing operations to former chief executive Alistair Assheton and further fleshed out its future plans, revolving around its online and offline Italian Betshop business.

Payments processor FireOne has said it will take a US$78m hit following its exit from the US. Releasing its third quarter results, the company added that it will continue to offer its services to non-US online gambling customers.

BetonSports has sold its Asian-facing Hooball sportsbook and casino back to its original founders for US$2.25m in cash. This follows the US Department of Justice’s (DoJ) temporary restraining order on its US-facing business imposed in July. The purchaser has agreed to return 3,859,089 shares that were issued at the time of the BetonSports acquisition, and to cancel the outstanding consideration of US$5m. Any future earnouts were also cancelled. Hooball was acquired in May 2006 for an initial consideration of US$22m, with US$10m paid in cash, and integrated into the BetonSports-owned Malaysia-based Easybets infrastructure. BetonSports said the price of the sale was due to its inability to pay outstanding amounts related to the business and the DoJ’s actions. It said its other Asian-facing operations continued to trade as normal. BetonSports added it was in continued negotiations with the DoJ with the aim of settling all charges against the company.

Empire Online chief executive Noam Lanir has acquired 30 million Empire shares at 41p per share. Lanir already owns 32.6% of the business. A company called Awn International sold 30 million Empire shares and still owns 10.3% of the business.

Tropical poker has signed ex-Playboy model Cindy Margolis as a brand representative.

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BetonSports to close US operations

BetonSports has agreed a Permanent Injunction with the District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri in relation to its US-facing business.
This replaces the temporary restraining order imposed on the firm by US authorities in July and means the company will close all its US operations and its Costa Rica and Antiguan offices.

BetonSports said it would hand back all outstanding funds to its US customers but said this would depend on “collections of monies and other debtors”. The company said it had agreed to the new injunction on the basis of legal advice in the US and the UK and saw it as a major step to settle all outstanding criminal action against BetonSports.

In a statement released yesterday, the District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri said “its findings supporting the Permanent Injunction were based upon the record of the firm’s and its associates’ criminal conduct. A record that BetonSports did not challenge”. BetonSports meanwhile said that while it had agreed to the injunction, it was “important to note that this has been done without the company admitting to or contesting any of the allegations contained within the complaint”. BetonSports added it was in continued negotiations with the DoJ with the aim of settling all charges against the company.

On Thursday, BetonSports sold its Asian-facing Hooball sportsbook and casino back to its original founders for US$2.25m (£1.2m) in cash. The purchaser agreed to return 3,859,089 shares that were issued at the time of the BetonSports acquisition, and to cancel the outstanding consideration of US$5m. Any future earnouts were also cancelled.

Hooball was acquired in May 2006 for an initial consideration of US$22m, with US$10m paid in cash, and integrated into the BetonSports-owned Malaysia-based Easybets infrastructure. BetonSports said the price of the sale was due to its inability to pay outstanding amounts related to the business and the DoJ’s actions. It said its other Asian-facing operations continued to trade as normal.

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Raw data sourced from PokerSiteScout , with permission.

Daily data represents the 24 hour peak Active Real Money Ring Game seats, at each site/network.
Sept Peak represents the max peak at each site across the entire month of September.
1wk Change: Day of Week difference from last week (ie Sat vs Sat last week) for last listed day
4wk Change: Day of week difference compared to the week before the legislation passed
Color Coding: Green(+) and Red(-) represents increase or decrease from previous day
7 day avg: Avg of last 7 day's peaks. Sites sorted by 7 day avg. Blue = 7 Day Avg > Sept Peak.

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Well that's interesting... seems we've closed the Thursday pre-bill gap.

[The_Scout]

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Well that's interesting... seems we've closed the Thursday pre-bill gap.

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That is an encouraging sign, but the average player counts tell a different story. We're still down 13% from the high point in September.

Date -- Average Players
8/24/2006 -- 35783
8/31/2006 -- 35776
9/7/2006 -- 37661
9/14/2006 -- 36884
9/21/2006 -- 36198
9/28/2006 -- 36745
10/5/2006 -- 34709
10/12/2006 -- 33522
10/19/2006 -- 32159
10/26/2006 -- 33144
11/2/2006 -- 33025
11/9/2006 -- 32781

The market is now more segmented between Europe and North America, so the daily peaks are narrower and the average-to-peak ratio is lower than it used to be.

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TRIBECA NEWS ALERT
Tribeca Tables has withdrawn from the US market, it said in a statement this evening.
The decision comes after Tribeca held lengthy discussions with its attorneys about the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. The company will now focus on non-US markets.

Erik Ahlberg, newly-appointed president of Tribeca Tables, said: “We are now initiating this policy and will work closely with our customers to ensure as little harm as possible to their overall business.”

European managing director Steve Cook added that the company and its board had “taken a considerable amount of time to weigh up all the options and sought a great deal of legal and market advice. Sadly we have no alternative. We have concluded that it is the best way forward for the company.”

Tribeca’s two largest US-facing licencees are Doyle’s Room and Golden Palace. According to internet press reports Golden Palace has also decided to refuse taking casino bets from the US.

Tribeca said it would also not be taking bets from Israel and Hong Kong players and will make further announcements about its network in due course.

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Sniper,

You got a link? Probably should be posted in its own thread. Do you know if they are a public or private company?


edit: just saw you posted it in the zoo.

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Sniper,

You got a link? Probably should be posted in its own thread. Do you know if they are a public or private company?


edit: just saw you posted it in the zoo.

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Just for you Bluff... Link to seperate Legislation thread

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Lee Jones post re: Stars new MTT schedule starting Monday