WPN-Where are they hiding 6K players?

dj11 · Feb 17, 2013

As I am playing WPN a lot, I have noticed the players on line being reported as over 5K most of the time lately.

I can't find em, where are they hidding?

nitulbhatia · Feb 17, 2013

Possibly includes play chip money players as well. Many sites dont report their actual cash game players but include playmoney players. Actual global cash game traffic is not a lot for online poker.

frigidbch · Feb 17, 2013

I have noticed that also.Do they count people not on tables but on the system?AKA lurkers.It is nice to see when i first started on ACR that there were usually no more than 2k people.More people means more tables to play but not in the case of ACR.

Debi · Feb 17, 2013

http://www.pokerscout.com/SiteDetail.aspx?site=Yatahay&ab=16352711

dj11 · Feb 17, 2013

dakota-xx said:
http://www.pokerscout.com/SiteDetail.aspx?site=Yatahay&ab=16352711

Very unflattering report there. But those numbers look more like what I can find than the 5K+ that shows in the BCP lobby.

Brings up the possibility that each of the skins treats that lobby # differently.

Kahntrutahn · Feb 17, 2013

Most networks include play money players... misleading for sure

dj11 · Feb 17, 2013

Kahntrutahn said:
Most networks include play money players... misleading for sure

I spent a fair amount of time looking for players, including play money players, and nowhere were there all that many players.

However I can not get into the Casino or the Sports betting section.

Kahntrutahn · Feb 18, 2013

dj11 said:
I spent a fair amount of time looking for players, including play money players, and nowhere were there all that many players.

However I can not get into the Casino or the Sports betting section.

Added in all the MTT/SNG players also?

dj11 · Feb 18, 2013

Kahntrutahn said:
Added in all the MTT/SNG players also?

Yes, with filters off. Most of the play seems to be MTT/SNG rather than ring/cash games.

If we consider that no one is multi-tabling (not the case Imho) the numbers still don't work. Unless they are counting lots of players who passed out without logging out.

RiverMeTimbers · Feb 20, 2013

dj11 said:
I spent a fair amount of time looking for players, including play money players, and nowhere were there all that many players.

However I can not get into the Casino or the Sports betting section.

Sure your not forgetting the players in progress on both MTT, SnG's and Ring games?

dj11 · Feb 20, 2013

RiverMeTimbers said:
Sure your not forgetting the players in progress on both MTT, SnG's and Ring games?

Yeah filters off.

Even if I assume no one is multi-tabling, which I know is not the case, the numbers don't get close to adding up.

dj11 · Mar 5, 2013

This morning;

Lobby shows 6400+ players,
Being very generous about my quick counts, I can maybe account for 1000 players in all the games they show me, real and play, ring and tourney, MTT and SNG.

Of note is that in a lot of the ring games there are a few sharks sitting alone at tables waiting for the fish. They are multi-tabling.

The casino and the sportsbook still do not show for me. It may be that those 2 entities account for all of the missing players, but how can we know? Are those 2 entities showing for anyone? anywhere in the world?

kidkvno1 · Mar 5, 2013

Maybe it's the number of players, on all of their skins? It's the only thing i can think of.

dj11 · Mar 5, 2013

kidkvno1 said:
Maybe it's the number of players, on all of their skins? It's the only thing i can think of.

When I look at the lobby, I am seeing all of the players on all of the skins, so that isn't it.

kidkvno1 · Mar 5, 2013

dj11 said:
When I look at the lobby, I am seeing all of the players on all of the skins, so that isn't it.

data from the link Debi posted
Real money ring game players
24 Hour Peak: 686
7 Day Average: 395
Now: 291
It only shows ring games and not MTT's and SNG's nor play money. Tho even that number seems messed up.
The higher player number may also be staff members watching for any software problems / server problems they may come up, and they might also be keeping an eye out for any tracker software that is on there not to use list.
Top rated play money sites lol
Site/Network Ring Game Players 7 Day Avg
Zynga Poker 132033 106600
PokerStars 32828 24200
http://www.pokerscout.com/

dj11 · Mar 5, 2013

RiverMeTimbers said:
Sure your not forgetting the players in progress on both MTT, SnG's and Ring games?

The only thing I have filtered out is empty tables.

dj11 · Mar 5, 2013

I have to think that this page might be an eye opener for most of us. I know it surprises me;

http://www.pokerscout.com/

No tourney populations found....yet.

ckickenking · Mar 5, 2013

All I know is that WPN is not a place for sng players like me. lol

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