According to PokerSiteScout

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While its true that BCP/ACR traffic is slowly climbing, the people who have been playing there for a long time really dont like it, myself included. The tournament selection sucks and because of "The Beast" promotion, the cash game rake is so high and its so infested with regs grinding for the Beast leaderboard, its unbeatable and the lesser players will get eaten alive. Merge cashouts arent great, but there is more money to make there overall. If people play these freerolls with the goal of making enough to play some of the real money buyins then dropping Merge is a big mistake. And even though the Merge payouts take longer than BCP and Bovada, they are coming.

Edit: Left out that Bovada is the best option IMO but the software is garbage and without a way to track, it takes most of the run out of PO imo.

Edit 2: And the Merge numbers are misleading. Merge has much higher tournament volume whereas BCP has a much higher cash game volume. Merge still DOMINATES the entire Winning Network in terms of overall player volume. PokerSiteScout doesnt take this into account.