ONLINE POKER RECORD FOR POKER STARS.COM
4 January 2008
The planet's most popular online poker site
records 20 386 simultaneous players
There's a new world record for numbers of online poker
players on-site simultaneously this week, as Poker
Stars.com reports 20 386 pokerheads playing at once on
the popular site. Available records at the reliable
Poker Scout site suggest that this is the first time
that over 20 000 real money ring game players have been
in action at the same time.
Poker Scout opines that the Unlawful Internet Gambling
Enforcement Act, ironically designed to curb online
gambling in the US by banning financial transactions
with online gambling companies, is at least partially
responsible for the phenomenal Poker Stars achievement.
The law, enacted in 2006, resulted in an exodus of
respectable and publicly traded competitors from the
American market and catapulted the international
PokerStars and competitor Full Tilt Poker to the top
venue spots of the online poker world. In the year since
the law was passed, both of the privately held poker
sites have more than doubled in size, but PokerStars
retains a better than 2 to 1 advantage over its nearest
competitor.
The previous market leader, PartyPoker, reached an
all-time high of 16 960 players in 2006 before being
forced out of the US market by the UIGEA. PartyPoker saw
its traffic cut in half and now sits in third place in
the PokerScout rankings.
Indications that Poker Stars would hit the record books
were clear on December 22 this year, when Poker Scout
noted that twice in the preceding seven days, PokerStars
traffic had topped out at over 19 900 players, already a
record in the history of online poker.
Online Casino News courtesy of
InfoPowa
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