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Revolution Gaming numbers soars, overtakes Merge
Lock Poker's acquisition and rebranding of the Cake Poker Network has turned around the stakes in the online poker industry, according to the latest figures from traffic tracking site Pokerscout.
Lock surprised many by breaking out of the Merge Gaming Network earlier this year. The breakout was followed by the takeover of the Cake Poker Network, which was rebranded to Revolution Gaming with Lock Poker as its new spearhead skin.
The launch of Revolution Gaming took place less than two weeks ago, but the new network is already showing growing numbers and has by now overtaken Merge as the largest U.S.-facing network in the industry.
Revolution Gaming now boasts of almost 2,000 active cash game players during peak hours, placing it slightly ahead of Merge's 1,890.
Overall, Revolution now places as the ninth biggest online poker network in the world, toppling the positions of Microgaming, Bodog and
Everest Poker, among others.
Apart from Lock Poker, Revolution Gaming also consists of Cake Poker as well as a number of other skins.
It is however the influx of new Lock Poker players which has guaranteed Revolution its new leading position among U.S. players, as the site's players moved with the room away from Merge.
In the very top of the list,
PokerStars continues to dominate as the world's largest online poker network with more than 30,000 active players during peak hours.
Following PokerStars on the ranking are iPoker,
PartyPoker, 
888Poker and the Ongame Network.
Lock surprised many by breaking out of the Merge Gaming Network earlier this year. The breakout was followed by the takeover of the Cake Poker Network, which was rebranded to Revolution Gaming with Lock Poker as its new spearhead skin.
The launch of Revolution Gaming took place less than two weeks ago, but the new network is already showing growing numbers and has by now overtaken Merge as the largest U.S.-facing network in the industry.
Revolution Gaming now boasts of almost 2,000 active cash game players during peak hours, placing it slightly ahead of Merge's 1,890.
Overall, Revolution now places as the ninth biggest online poker network in the world, toppling the positions of Microgaming, Bodog and
Everest Poker, among others.Apart from Lock Poker, Revolution Gaming also consists of Cake Poker as well as a number of other skins.
It is however the influx of new Lock Poker players which has guaranteed Revolution its new leading position among U.S. players, as the site's players moved with the room away from Merge.
In the very top of the list,
PokerStars continues to dominate as the world's largest online poker network with more than 30,000 active players during peak hours.Following PokerStars on the ranking are iPoker,
PartyPoker, 888Poker and the Ongame Network.
Comments
424
1 year ago
Can anyone with a mac tell me if you can play on this network anymore? I used to play a lot of Lock when it was on the merge network. But i was told to delete and download the new software when it joined this network. I have tried a few times and I cant finish the download because there are a few "errors". I know cake cannot be played on a mac. I hope this network can sometime make a mac compatible software soon and that will attract even more players to the site like people like me.
417
1 year ago
I read somewhere that Lock is working on a client for Mac users. As far as I know, so far there is one... Hope that changes soon so you can play there!
As far as Lock goes, I personally was hoping for longer blind levels, and more blind levels, rather than then making most low stakes games TURBO and removing blind levels from tournaments on (Cake/Revolution Network) so they mimic the Merge structures for low satkes MTT's... Just my thoughts on the subject. Good luck on the felts.
waterboy
As far as Lock goes, I personally was hoping for longer blind levels, and more blind levels, rather than then making most low stakes games TURBO and removing blind levels from tournaments on (Cake/Revolution Network) so they mimic the Merge structures for low satkes MTT's... Just my thoughts on the subject. Good luck on the felts.
waterboy
775
1 year ago
Seems to me that the number of players Lock took with them and "merged" with Cake to form Revolution is the main factor for them becoming #1 in the US. Probably a good business decision, we'll see.
I haven't registered for lock yet but when I do, I'll do so through here. I'm probably going to check it out later this week.....
Good cards all.
I haven't registered for lock yet but when I do, I'll do so through here. I'm probably going to check it out later this week.....
Good cards all.
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