BUMPER WEEK FOR ONLINE POKER
10 February 2012
Latest Pokerscout numbers show an 11 percent
surge in traffic across the main sites
The independent online poker monitor Pokerscout
reports that last week saw a significant 11 percent rise
in traffic across the top ten internet poker sites.
The biggest beneficiary of the boost in action was
PokerStars, which saw traffic rise an impressive 18
percent. The site saw higher traffic all week thanks to
its 75 billionth hand promotion, in which the final hand
was dealt over the weekend, generating a peak of 75,887
cash game players.
Twenty other online poker
sites also reported gains of 5 percent or more, a
welcome relief from the depressed conditions of recent
weeks.
Pokerscout reports that among the Top
Twenty sites it monitors:
- Svenska Spel pulled ahead of Bodog to take over
15th place.
- PartyPoker.fr climbed two levels to 17th,
pushing EverestPoker.fr and EverestPoker.com down to
18th and 19th, respectively.
With time starting to even out the overall loses in
traffic since last April's Black Friday, the
year-on-year numbers indicate a decrease in traffic of
24 percent.
The top three sites remain
Pokerstars, PartyPoker and iPoker in that order, but
among lesser networks there have been some impressive
gains:
* Merge Gaming up 99 percent
*
888poker up 79 percent
* Bodog up 49 percent
* Winamax.fr up 39 percent
Full Tilt Poker
and Cereus remain in the doldrums and Entraction
(recently acquired by IGT and renamed) lags by 51
percent. GTechG2's International Poker Network is down
46 percent, and 3D poker provider PKR is 27 percent
lower, with Ongame down 21 percent.
Although
relatively small, Chico Poker - formerly Action Poker -
continues to show exciting growth with a 280 percent
improvement , doing rather better than Winning Poker
(previously known as Yatahay) which is up 56 percent.
Online Casino News Courtesy of
Infopowa
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