Official Poker Site/Network Tracking thread

[Sniper]

Here's the official Tribeca announcement from their site ...

London, November 10th - Following a long period of consultation with it's gaming attorneys, Tribeca Tables Europe, Limited, the online poker solutions company, has announced that the company has decided to withdraw it's poker room from certain territories; specifically the US, Israel, and Hong Kong markets.

In light of the recent introduction in the US regarding the "Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006" and in line with most other responsible networks and poker operators, the company will focus on more non US territories and new markets. Tribeca will endeavour to assist it's US facing clients in particular with the transition as much as possible. Players do not need to worry as the transition will take several months to implement.

Erik Ahlberg, new 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".

Steve Cook, European managing director added, "The board have taken a considerable amount of time to weigh up all of the options and sought a great deal of legal and market advice. We had agonized over the decision for several weeks, but sadly we have no alternative. We have concluded that it is the best way forward for the company".

Tribeca's portfolio of brands still includes many European facing brands such as Sporting Index, Paddy Power, Blue Sq, Victor Chandler, and with the recent merger with Tain, the addition of Expekt.com and its other skins.

The company also intends to make a further announcement regarding its poker network in due course.

[Sniper]

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
5wk Change: Day of week difference compared to the week before the legislation was signed (10/13)
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.

[Sniper]

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
5wk Change: Day of week difference compared to the week before the legislation was signed (10/13)
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.

[Sciolist]

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Lee Jones post re: Stars new MTT schedule starting Monday

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It'll be interesting to see if this changes what happens with the total prizepool & number of MTT entries. I haven't really analysed this as closely as I will need to, but it looks like both should be higher to me.

[Sniper]

Playtech acquires Tribeca

Looks like they will migrate all non-US Tribeca & Tain sites to the playtech platform over the next 6 months... this could move them into the #4 slot.

Scout, can you post a graph of the intraday traffic on ipoker, tain, and Tribeca? Thx

[Sniper]

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
5wk Change: Day of week difference compared to the week before the legislation was signed (10/13)
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.

[Sniper]

Looks like FCP got into a little trouble with Ongame today, and hints of a new Network (excerpted from a post by FCP's poker mgr on the FCP forum)...

As some of you have already experienced, FCP’s poker software is currently unavailable for real money play. Full Contact Poker is working on a technical issue related to its compliance with Ongame’s block of US players. We plan to have our poker software back up and available to Non-US players by Tuesday or Wednesday.

On a separate note, Full Contact Poker’s transition from the Ongame Network to its new poker software provider has been delayed with a new launch plan.

It has taken a few of the other large poker sites longer than expected to separate from their previous networks, causing this new poker network to delay its official launch until December. However, FCP has been granted the opportunity to transition ALL of its players (along with a few other poker sites) onto a Beta version of this new poker network software within a week or two. During this Beta period, the number of players on the network will be a lot smaller than you will find in December, which means fewer ring games and smaller tournaments, but we encourage you to use this time to play on the new network and to let us know what playing features and functions you would like to see added or modified.

Until FCP transitions all of its players to the new network for this Beta opportunity, Non-US players will still be able to play through the Ongame network.

We wish we could tell you more specifics about the new network, like the name and the other sites joining FCP, but we must wait until the official announcement is made public by the network itself.

[Sniper]

UB software upgrade Tuesday morning...

We're upgrading your experience - November 13, 2006

Our software will be unavailable for play between 5am ET and 9am ET on Tuesday, November 14th, 2006. But don’t worry. We’ll be back.

We’re performing a scheduled software upgrade to add some exciting new features and games that will make your poker experience even more fantasmagorical. The new games include Razz, Horse, Hose, Half No Limit Holde’em/Half Omaha, and Bounty Tournaments.

Tournaments will be unavailable for play beginning at 1am ET. We’ll be back online at 9am ET on Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 and all tournaments will resume at 10am ET.

When you log back in on Tuesday morning, look for the new games, tournaments and other fancy upgrades.

[dragonystic]

that 5 wk change is lookin pretty good. only down 1600. could be a lot worse. ^_^

[Nate tha\\\' Great]

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Looks like FCP got into a little trouble with Ongame today, and hints of a new Network (excerpted from a post by FCP's poker mgr on the FCP forum)...

As some of you have already experienced, FCP’s poker software is currently unavailable for real money play. Full Contact Poker is working on a technical issue related to its compliance with Ongame’s block of US players. We plan to have our poker software back up and available to Non-US players by Tuesday or Wednesday.

On a separate note, Full Contact Poker’s transition from the Ongame Network to its new poker software provider has been delayed with a new launch plan.

It has taken a few of the other large poker sites longer than expected to separate from their previous networks, causing this new poker network to delay its official launch until December. However, FCP has been granted the opportunity to transition ALL of its players (along with a few other poker sites) onto a Beta version of this new poker network software within a week or two. During this Beta period, the number of players on the network will be a lot smaller than you will find in December, which means fewer ring games and smaller tournaments, but we encourage you to use this time to play on the new network and to let us know what playing features and functions you would like to see added or modified.

Until FCP transitions all of its players to the new network for this Beta opportunity, Non-US players will still be able to play through the Ongame network.

We wish we could tell you more specifics about the new network, like the name and the other sites joining FCP, but we must wait until the official announcement is made public by the network itself.


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I find it encouraging that a new network (apparently) is forming. I like seeing proactive attempts to grab the US market, rather than some sort of NASCAR-like game of attrition.