Hi everyone. Played a few MTT's last night but failed to cash in anything. I got my pocket aces cracked 3 times which never helps your chances. I'm getting back into the cash games first thing tomorrow morning, and am really looking forward to it. Not much else going on in my poker world, but I am planning on playing a lot over the weekend so should have some news Monday.
Today's Topic: The state of online poker
With everything going on in the online poker world over the last 12 months I thought it would be interesting to take a look at where online poker is currently at. I gathered the peak number of cash game players every day for each pokersite from Pokersitescout and have but it into a graph to see what the top five sites are doing (click on the image to enlarge it).
As you can see Pokerstars is just getting bigger and bigger with no-one coming close to challenging them. Party poker has made an amazing comeback to the #2 spot after pulling out of the US market seeing their numbers drop to as low as a 3500 daily peak at one stage. It is a real testament to the Party team that they have been able to develop a new market so quickly. The other big surprise is the steady decline of traffic on Full Tilt Poker over the last few months, struggling to keep their #3 spot. Ipoker network is growing but this is not surprising considering that they now have over 60 poker sites on their network.
Overall the figures are very healthy, just before the Americans introducing the Unlawful gaming act last year daily cash game player peaks for the top five sites were sitting around the 25,000 mark, at a similar stage this year the daily peaks of the top five poker sites have increased to about the 39,000 mark. This is a great sign and even with a lot of negative publicity for online poker this year, the future is still looking extremely bright.
Hope everyone has a great weekend, and
remember that "In The Game Of Life... Play The Cards You're Dealt".
3 comments:
Ul with the aces getting cracked so often.
Good luck in the cash games.
Also, not sure if you know, but google ads will not pay out on gambling blogs... apparantly it's in their T+C's.
Good graph. You can also do a check using Alexa graph, it won't tell on players playing the games but more based on traffics.If you plot it during the new American law, you get the picture too.
Now, Pokerstars keep on growing!
The world has not forgotten about poker. The Limit games blew up and are now nothing.
The problem is that the REAL fish are where Americans can not get to them.
Before prohibition I could play 5/10 games with 60% flops in a few sites. Now it's hard to find 30% flops.
The Americans filled seats that the small loose rooms needed. While they tightened the tables a little they still filled the needed seats.
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