Is Merge going wild? :/

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Hey guys, i haven't played on merge for a while, and yet yesterday i login to my Aced.com account and noticed that they increase the rake on all games...They threw some games away as well, the most of games perhaps :/...I'm trying to find some informations about that but still nothing, are they going to shut down Aced.com or whole Merge gaming network?...it doesn't smell good to me...Anyway if any of you guys have some informations about these, lets say "games deficit" on merge, please share...
 
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I wouldn't worry too much if I was you and you live in Europe so even if you are worried you have got enough choice left!
 
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yeah play microgaming or ipoker
 
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Hey guys, i haven't played on merge for a while, and yet yesterday i login to my Aced.com account and noticed that they increase the rake on all games...They threw some games away as well, the most of games perhaps :/...I'm trying to find some informations about that but still nothing, are they going to shut down Aced.com or whole Merge gaming network?...it doesn't smell good to me...Anyway if any of you guys have some informations about these, lets say "games deficit" on merge, please share...
cash table they increased the rakes
SNG is very tricky situation, the low buyin has more rakes but the higher buyin the RACK is DECREASED:eek:

eg, the 11 USD BUYIN sng used to have 10+1 usd, but now it is 10.XX+0.63 something.

the tournament [MTT] same.

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I don't know the purpose they adjust the rakes, but really kills micro buyin player, like me. <-- don't have enough bankroll to move up...:p
 
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yeah I am strictly a micro player also, I never had the bankroll to move up either. The increase in rake just annoys me.
 
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As others have already said, I think it's only the micro & smallest stakes SNG's that have had an increase. I checked it out before & I think it's something like $1's are 17% rake, $2's are 14%, $5's are 11% (or in that ballpark).

Carbon rep. has a detailed thread about it on 2p2, saying how their intentions were to clean up the SNG lobby. I didn't hear any mention of the 'sky is falling'.

Personally I think it's way easier to navigate now (I hated it before... all those goofy names for sng's... please! Just show me the regular blind structure, the Turbo structure & SuperTurbo (Or "hypers") if you have them.)
 
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Thank you guys these informations were more than helpful to me...But for example, i played the last one 150 GTD, buy in 215$, 608 players and that means that they gave away almost 20 K! :/..i was wondering what was that all about...and thats not the only game that cannot reach a GTD prize pool...it all seems wierd to me, they do the math with the rakes in one hand and in the other the most of their problems are in GTD MTTs...still cant figure them out
 
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Larger guarantees attracts tournament players to the site (who will also typically be playing more than that one tournament).
Just check out the history on some sites who quickly lower their guarantees in the past & see the success of it. (ie. Cake a couple/few yrs. ago).

I don't typically play on Carbon but (for example) with that $11 $25k Gtd. on Sundays (or whatever the guar. on it is right now) it might have me open the site up & play a few tourneys.
 
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I couldn't agree more with you PO about their intention but lets get back in the past, how many times they 'v renamed before mantioned 150k GTD, it was called 75K, 100K (many times),than 125K and now 150K GTD...and very often they can't deal with reaching GTD pp...they should just name it: "Sunday 10 K added" and it seems that would attract more people than ever, plus i think that in that case rake would at least cover their losses with those 10 K extra
 
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