Official Poker Site/Network Tracking thread - Page 6

MannyIsGod · #51 10-18-2006, 06:54 AM

I think Full Tilt has done the best job marketing so far. But its early. Also, Full Tilt has an interface that is more attractive to the avg player, IMO. Through in the the pros, and its pretty easy to see why they're doing better than the other mid sized sites.

Ron Burgundy · #52 10-18-2006, 08:38 AM

It's all about marketing. How many giant UB logos do you see on the top pros on TV? Hellmuth is the only one I can think of.

UB doesn't even have commercials. FT has a commercial on almost every break of almost every poker show.

kidpokeher · #53 10-18-2006, 08:59 AM

Interesting. I figured FT had the edge in advertising but I haven't paid a lot of attention to poker shows. Have any "we're still open to the US..." ads started running?

All that said, why isn't Stars growing? Seems to me they had more ads than FT.

5thStreetHog · #54 10-18-2006, 02:39 PM

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All that said, why isn't Stars growing? Seems to me they had more ads than FT.

[/ QUOTE ]Disagree,FT has been by far the most aggressive in marketing their site,more commercials, more connection with well known players ,not to mention a weekly poker show that served as a great advertisement for their site(learn from the pro`s)and televised FT tourny`s to cap it off.

Sniper · #55 10-18-2006, 06:32 PM

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.
Change: Day of Week difference from last week (ie Sat vs Sat last week) for last listed day
Color Coding: Green(+) and Red(-) represents increase or decrease from previous day
Including 7 day avg, and 8 days rolling
Sites sorted by 7 day avg

mttsemipro · #56 10-18-2006, 06:44 PM

Yeah, i used to play just on PP and i found the FT software to be the easiest to adjust to because they are extremely similar to pp. For instance, the raise amounts on FT includes the amount ur calling like on pp, but UB is different. So moost people who were just on pp and now tried both sites will go to FT.

Sniper · #57 10-18-2006, 07:01 PM

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Let me know if you want me to run some custom reports from thepokerdb on MTT traffic. I'll do my best to accomodate.

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It would be great if you could post 2 graphs... one of total MTT seats (in your records) in use each day for each site you cover for Sept-Oct; and one for Total Prize Pools each day for each site you cover for Sept-Oct.

Sniper · #58 10-18-2006, 07:05 PM

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Is this data suggesting that Party Poker is still doing well and is not in dire straits? The 6K range still puts in comfortably in second place.

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Hi Utah, yes, Party will continue to do fine... its non-US player base was larger than the other sites total players (with the possible exception of stars), prior to the legislation.

Sniper · #59 10-18-2006, 07:19 PM

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Here are some average player counts since Sept. 1. I picked the 4 most interesting sites (IMO) so as not to clutter up the graph.

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Thx Scout..

One of the interesting things this graphs brings to light, is that players started to stop playing at Party, immediately following the passing of the legislation and their statement that they were pulling out. Of course that trend jumped when they actually locked out players after the Preident signed the bill.

While on the other hand, as others have noted, Full Tilt is clearly benefitting from the bill, and started picking up players from the point the legislation passed.

Stars did not start to pick up players until it released its statement and the President signed the bill. By delaying putting out a statement until the last minute, Stars may have as a result ceded the early switchers to FT.

Sniper · #60 10-19-2006, 03:35 AM

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.
Change: Day of Week difference from last week (ie Sat vs Sat last week) for last listed day
Color Coding: Green(+) and Red(-) represents increase or decrease from previous day
Including 7 day avg, and 8 days rolling
Sites sorted by 7 day avg