Mirror Sites

I found Commodore and Doylesroom are mirror sites which really surprised me. I was looking for a site that looked familiar because Doylesroom lost, dropped, or have technical probalems that caused all their Limit tables to be disappear (except for 6 low $1/2 tables). So after downloading Commodore, their limit tables are gone too!! The pot limit tables stayed but I don't like playing pot limit. Anybody know what these mirror sites are and why are functions/changes exactly the same at both sites?

Ok, now I'm really pi**ed! I just downloaded vcpoker.com to find some higher denomination limit tables and it too is another mirror site to doylesroom and commodore - with no LIMIT tables...only some pot limit. Good grief...What a waste of time. This just does to prove that these sites not only use the same software, their table offerings are identical.

...I don't know why companies make more than 1 site instead of putting all there money in 1 place and make it count. . .It seems that Prima will be gone soon also...but for your sake, I would hope that the removal of the limits are only temporary.

Whoa! Hang on there, Cochese! These "mirror sites" you are referring to are poker skins on the Tribeca Network. This link will list them all:

http://www.tribecatables.com/current_brands.html

If this network is having problems, you need to sign up on a site that is NOT on this list. Try the "Bonuses" link at the top of this page for some other good sites not on the Tribeca Network. Titan is the home site for Cardschat.com. You might want to start there.

wsorbust, I'd guess that Tribeca Tables don't have the capital to undertake a world wide marketing campain so are forced to licence out skins to other parties.

Also, having a number of skins ran by a single company has some marketing benifits. In the UK (I'd imagine the US too) there are loads of washing up powder brands - Daz, Persil etc. all owned by the same company. The idea is that say company A makes brand A but company B has brand B and brand C then company hopes to get 2/3rds of the market share.

In the current market it's going to be phenomenally difficult for a new site to get going without being a 'skin', sharing users with an existing network, because people will want enough opponents to play against or generous enough offers to make up for the lack of table selection options.
The skins act like glorified affiliates - so the actual network is the same, and there's just some cosmetic differences, and they take a cut from the rake.
There are various advantages for skins existing for players, though. Generally you can sign up to multiple skins for the same network, and take advantage of several sign-up and 1st deposit bonuses - if you find a network you like you can then keep playing at the same tables but get extra bonuses. Additionally, you'll get more players at the tables than you would if they were separate, so it's more worthwhile playing there.

The network running all the skins gets users from several marketing efforts, while the poker sites get a cheap way to enter the market (they can get started from maybe $10,000 plus some marketing costs, which is a tiny fraction of the cost of starting up a new independent site).