Tribeca pulled out of the US market recently, there’s only a few sites that US players can actually play the game that they love so much. I wonder which online poker room will be the next to bow to the pressure and cut off from their US player base.

It looks pretty bleak if you ask me. Of course, it will never completely die off, but with lesser recreational players, the semi-serious players will either get slaughtered by the sharks, or move on to improve and become one of the 8 tabling sharks themselves.

Mostly because I consider flat to be negative.

I say that only in half jest though. This is an industry that has experienced nothing but growth. The flatening out of the curve looks good because it seems as if things are stabilizing but my concern is that they’re merely holding their ground. If something doesn’t turn around in a major way they’re likely to see additional drops.

Bill

Obviously, a lack of growth doesn’t bode well for the industry, but I find it curious that you didn’t address the flatness of the slope in the last 5 weeks, preferring instead to characterize it as a negative slope across the full 8 weeks.