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More fallout from the U.S. government’s April 15 seizure of the world’s biggest online poker websites: Just after Cake Poker Network site PowerPoker announced it was ending new U.S. signups, reports are indicating that the entire Merge Network will do the same

After the sudden loss of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and CEREUS network sites UB.com and Absolute Poker from the U.S. market, the Merge Network suddenly found itself in the position of being the biggest online poker network in the biggest online poker market, the U.S.A.

That triumph was short-lived, however. As the industry watched the United States seize even more poker domains, such as DoylesRoom and TruePoker, it became clear that all large sites were being targeted. Many large poker sites not targeted by the FBI began voluntarily leaving the U.S. market.

Though it was first described as “temporary”, it looks like Merge has indefinitely exited the United States, too. According to PokerScout’s numbers, that now makes Bodog the largest poker network in the United States, altough Bodog’s days of accepting U.S. poker players would be over soon, too, if they weren’t already.

Also per PokerScout, Bodog's cash player average is 546, to the Merge Network’s 1,393. PokerStars still dominates the global market with 28,970, with Full Tilt coming in second at 13,108.