DoylesRoom Leaves Cake and Joins Yatahay Poker Network
Yatahay Poker Network
After two years on the Cake Poker Network DoylesRoom announced that they are leaving and have now become a member of the Yatahay Poker Network.
Last week DoylesRoom announced that they will be leaving the Cake Poker Network. After two years with the Cake poker network, they will now be joining Yatahay Poker Network. The Yatahay network features sites including True Poker and BetCRis. It is the 38th largest network worldwide based upon real money ring game traffic, it has a seven day running average of 73 cash game players.
Of course this is bringing some changes to the website. To start off with the weekly DoylesRoom Bounty tournament, which offered up to $50,000 in bounty prize money, is being turned into a guaranteed tournament. An email to players announced that they will be running $500,000 in guarantees every month as well as both 2D and 3D poker rooms.
They also mentioned a $50K guaranteed tournament starting in March which could also be the newly launched Bounty. The DoylesRoom website says that the bounty would be coming back soon. In the Bounty games players battle against three DoylesRoom sponsored professionals, players would receive $1,000 for knocking a professional out. If you manage to knock two out you win $10,000 and $50,000 is available for knocking all three out.
The beginning of February will see a $65,000 Race to the Top. In this competition players collect points by playing at real money cash tables. The more rake they generate the more points they shall receive, the player at the top of the Leaderboard will win $7,500; the next 349 players will also receive cash prizes. It is also expected that the weekly Beat the Brunson 10 tournament will be redesigned, but details of what changes are coming have not yet been released.
This move by DoylesRoom has not gone down well with everyone. One player complained that there never seemed to be more than ten people in a tournament since the move, whilst another said that the situation was “ridiculous” and that the “new setup for DoylesRoom is a joke!”
On the day that DoylesRoom switched networks, the average cash game player count on the Cake Poker Network dropped sharply. On the day before the switch there were 1,356 players on the Cake Poker Network at its peak. The next day this dropped 29% to 961. Cash game players were down 25% week over week as well. No numbers have been released as of yet for the Yatahay Poker Network.
