Stars still at 100k players over the weekend? Fish still depositing?

AA Suited · #1 03-20-2007, 04:55 PM

Before the Neteller meltdown, Stars was above 100k players. After the meltdown, i stopped playing. I assumed as the weeks go by, there would be less and less players because the fish would go busto w/o a way to replenish their accts. And as the fish die off, more players would stop playing because they can't make $.

Well, i logged in this past weekend, and it was still at 100k players. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

What's your theory as to who/why there are still 100k players at Stars?

capone0 · #2 03-20-2007, 04:56 PM

There are a lot of play money players on Stars.

LionelHutz00 · #3 03-20-2007, 05:02 PM

newsflash: It's still easy to deposit. Fish didn't use Neteller in the same proportions as 2p2ers.

tagtastic · #4 03-20-2007, 05:30 PM

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newsflash: It's still easy to deposit. Fish didn't use Neteller in the same proportions as 2p2ers.

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Exactly. The fish who's debit cards worked before, still works now.

demon102 · #5 03-20-2007, 06:29 PM

new deposit methods like epass and prepaid visas, where u been in a cave?

AA Suited · #6 03-21-2007, 11:20 AM

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new deposit methods like epass and prepaid visas, where u been in a cave?

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apparently.

1) Is there a way to tell how many real $ players there are on Stars?

pokersitescout says 13k cash game players at 24hr peak. is there a way to determine # of sng players?

2) You could deposit via debit card before the neteller meltdown?! [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

Billman · #7 03-21-2007, 09:46 AM

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newsflash: It's still easy to deposit. Fish didn't use Neteller in the same proportions as 2p2ers.

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While that may technically be true because you're never going to have exactly the same percentage of players using Neteller in two different groups but most sites did 80%+ of the deposit/withdrawals via Neteller.

Oh, and a much better indicator of real money players is on PokerSiteScout. Looking at that little counter doesn't really tell you anything really useful. All player money players count in there and depending on the site, some count a singler player playing on four tables as 4 players.

jtr · #8 03-21-2007, 02:33 PM

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... some count a singler player playing on four tables as 4 players.

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So does PokerSiteScout.

punkass · #9 03-20-2007, 08:31 PM

They're getting 100k during the week.

Dire · #10 03-20-2007, 08:55 PM

You know, fish aren't idiots. They might not play the game for the same reasons as us, but they enjoy it just as much (if not more). They're not suddenly going to bend over and disappear because of one silly obstacle. Just like everybody else, they want to play so they'll find a way to do so.