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Poker used to be one of the games that received a lot of recognition at first, but somewhere along the line, the market dropped significantly to the point that several poker tournaments that were hosted all happened to go in a particular direction,
with low participation,Not really
It depends on where you play poker though. I've probably only seen 1 tournament with overlay prizepool in ggpoker network out of 100 tournaments. Most of the time, the tournaments action on there is pretty packed
Actually I am not sure if there will be poker tournaments, at least in the beginning.
Cash games and tournaments goes side by side, you cant just leave one out just because its not profitable. It would kill the point of having poker in your own site if you are leaving one of it out. Anyway, Stake as a company has a pretty high valuation though so they probably wouldnt mind losing money for the first 3 months if they arent going to make money from poker tournaments in case if they have one