Merge poker site Felt stars has closed down

[badguy23]

Dear FeltStars Players,


The entire FeltStars Team would like thank all of our loyal players for all the
years you have played poker on FeltStars. We are saddened to announce that we
will be leaving online poker and no longer offer these services on our website.
As most players already know FeltStars has operated as a partner of the Merge
Gaming Network whom is licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, so rest
assured that the Merge Gaming Network has processed and holds all player funds.
Your balance is securely held by Merge Gaming and they will assist in
transferring your funds to another partner. Please select another Merge Gaming
Network partner from below:


Click to see the list of Merge Partners http://www.mergegaming.com/partners.html


Then, create an account and Email Merge Gaming at support@mergegaming.eu and
they will move your balance to this new account.


Alternatively, if you already have an account at another site on the Merge
network, please provide those account details in an email to
support@mergegaming.eu.


In your email you should include your FeltStars screen name with your personal
details and then provide your screen name on the other Merge partner site that
you wish for your funds to be transferred to. Again, we have appreciated the
opportunity to serve our players and wish you all well in the future.


Please do not reply to this email address as it is no longer monitored, direct
all questions to support@mergegaming.eu.


Sincerely,


FeltStars Team

[Steve-O]

too bad Lock Poker is still not with Merge, I don't think Druff can contractually talk about it otherwise

[Belly Buster]

Hahapoker just shows a godaddy page. No more sugar for Joe Hachem?

[Steve-O]

The whole industry is in turmoil right now. Just some of the sites that have gone the way of the dodo or been hit with controversy recently are PokerNordica, BluffRoom, FeltStars, GutShot, Dracula Poker (yes that was an actual skin at iPoker), Celeb Poker, 5050 Poker, Hollywood Poker, even fairly respectable sites like Black Chip are getting hammered.

Also

• IGT is closing their entire network
• iPoker segregated their top skins (basically forcing the smaller rooms to be absorbed or wallow with the scraps)
• Bodog is closing its European and UK Poker Room
• OnGame was sold to Amaya Gaming and its doubtful they will operate in unregualted markets

I doubt we'll even recognize the online poker industry in 2015. It looks to be on the path to complete consolidation

[PLOL]

Hahapoker just shows a godaddy page. No more sugar for Joe Hachem?

I literally laughed out loud when I read that Joe Hachem had been signed as a HaHaPoker pro

[Sitting Out]

I don't know if it's been reported elsewhere on this site, but Cake poker has moved as well. I hadn't logged on to Cake for a couple of weeks, but when I tried recently, it didn't recognize my account. I thought I was out a few hundred $'s. It turns out they moved to Juicy Stakes poker, where my old account was moved. It's an exact replica of Cake.

With all these recent moves in the industry, it appears something new is going on. I don't pay too attention to this stuff so maybe it's old news by now.

[PLOL]

I don't know if it's been reported elsewhere on this site, but Cake poker has moved as well. I hadn't logged on to Cake for a couple of weeks, but when I tried recently, it didn't recognize my account. I thought I was out a few hundred $'s. It turns out they moved to Juicy Stakes poker, where my old account was moved. It's an exact replica of Cake.

With all these recent moves in the industry, it appears something new is going on. I don't pay too attention to this stuff so maybe it's old news by now.

Yeah, they're going broke. That's what is going on.

[Steve-O]

I don't know if it's been reported elsewhere on this site, but Cake poker has moved as well. I hadn't logged on to Cake for a couple of weeks, but when I tried recently, it didn't recognize my account. I thought I was out a few hundred $'s. It turns out they moved to Juicy Stakes poker, where my old account was moved. It's an exact replica of Cake.

With all these recent moves in the industry, it appears something new is going on. I don't pay too attention to this stuff so maybe it's old news by now.

The Cake Poker (and a few other Revolution skins) move to JuicyStakes was some preemptive move (a la Bodog to Bovada) that only affected US players. All US players were moved to JuicyStakes for some unspecified reason. The problem with this is that JuicyStakes operates on a .com, so there could be trouble down the road. From what I've heard Lock Poker is not going to migrate its US players, but realistically who knows at this point.

Personally I think all of these moves, absorptions, and closings are just a way to consolidate the industry and get the Haha Poker's and Dracula Poker's out of the way. The endgame is probably only the well run sites and skins will survive, and in the end instead of 250 poker rooms there will be 25, which could be good and bad for a number of reasons