Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update - PokerStars Topping, 888poker Breaks Away

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Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update - PokerStars Topping, 888poker Breaks Away
22:10
30 Dec

It looks like the year of 2014 has ended with no surprises on the online traffic rankings front. The usual suspects remain in the top five of PokerScout’s ranking list and the rest of the top ten are familiar names as well.

As always, PokerStars tops the list, having stayed unchanged from last week with a 19500 player average over a seven day period. This has ensured that PokerStars is still by and large the most popular online poker network going into 2015.

888poker has had a great end to the year, consolidating further on its status as the top alternative to PokerStars on the online poker front.

The network increased its seven day player average by 100 to put it at the 2500 on the second last day of 2014, something it hopes to keep up in the New Year.

On the contrary, iPoker’s player average decreased over the last week by 100, to put it to 2000. It’s a blow in the network’s hopes to potentially overtake its second placed rival since the buffer has now gotten quite substantial. However, things could certainly change sometime in 2015.

Full Tilt continues to sit comfortably in fourth place with a seven day player average of 1800. That is not far behind iPoker, which means Full Tilt could make a challenge for the coveted spot as early as the first month of 2015.

While nothing’s guaranteed, the potential battle for third place is something poker fans and critics should keep their eyes on.

In fifth place is PartyPoker, which looks set to end 2014 in the place it has occupied for the majority of the year.

It does not sit comfortably in fifth spot though, as PokerStars.it languishes very close behind it in sixth place with an average of just 50 fewer players. With such a small buffer between the two networks, both of their places in the rankings could change by the time the next update comes out.

Bodog has finished the year in seventh spot on the PokerScout rankings, with a seven day player average of 1350 players. It looks set to not go down any further in the rankings in the foreseeable future given the player averages of the networks on the list below it.

Those networks are Winamax.fr, Adjarabet and PokerStars.es, all of which have a seven day player average of 1150 players. It is likely that neither network would have liked to have ended 2014 in such a deadlock, which is likely to be a motivation to start 2015 with a bang and attract more players to each of their networks.

In the US, Party Borgata continues to lead the way in New Jersey with a seven day player average of 150, while WSOP’s online poker network also kept its spot as the top network in Nevada at the end of 2014, with an average of 140 players over the past week.


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From Perth, Australia, Bruno de Paiva is a qualified journalist who has worked in both media and non-media roles. At just 24, he was the chief journalist of a newspaper in north-west Australia, leading a team of four regular writers and regional correspondents in producing weekly editions of the pub...Read more

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