Looks like numbers have begun to stabalize a bit for Tilt and Stars though that stablization has been in just the last week so it’s difficult to say if this level holds, is a temporary pause on a continued decline, or a floor from which they’ll bounce off of.
The early Jan numbers from Stars might have been a little inflated due to a rare (for Stars) reload bonus. Players were likely playing a little more than usual trying to burn off their reload.
Tournaments this week were hard to compare week over week due to changeups in guarantee amounts.
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
