28 Feb
The dust refuses to settle in the world of online poker player traffic as this week’s PokerScout’s rankings have revealed a deadlock for fourth place. Both Bodog and PokerStars.it are currently neck and neck in their battle to clinch the fourth spot as their own.
Both sites currently have a seven-day player average of 1,800. That represented a fall of 100 players for PokerStars.it, while the number was unchanged from Bodog’s player traffic last week.
The deadlock will likely give both poker rooms that little bit of extra motivation to attract more players as they seek to separate themselves from each other in the rankings.
PokerStars continues to dominate PokerScout’s player traffic rankings list. The Amaya Gaming-owned site had a fall of 500 players this week, although with a seven-day average of 19,000 players, it continues to be head and shoulders over the rest of the competition.
888poker continued to assert itself as the most popular alternative to PokerStars, having remained in second place on the list this week. With an average of 2,500 players, the network’s player traffic numbers remained unchanged from last week, and it retains a comfortable buffer over third placed iPoker.
Like 888poker, iPoker’s player traffic numbers were also unchanged from last week, with the network continuing to boast a seven-day player average of 2,000. It continues to face some big worries with regard to its place on the rankings given the fact that PokerStars.it and Bodog are just 200 players behind.
Full Tilt appears to have emerged victorious from its sixth place deadlock with PartyPoker last week.
Both rooms were neck and neck on the PokerScout rankings with 1,500 players a piece. But this week Full Tilt was able to increase its player average by 100, which has resulted in it claiming the sixth spot in its own right.
PartyPoker’s player numbers remain unchanged this week at 1,500, but it will not take a major increase to put it back in a deadlock with Full Tilt. Because of that, the Full Tilt vs. PartyPoker battle for sixth place is likely not over and remains something to monitor closely.
Winamax.fr, PokerStars.es and Adjarabet rounded out the top ten in PokerScout’s rankings.
Winamax had a slight increase of 50 players to keep it in eighth place with a seven-day average of 1,250 players.
Both Pokerstars.es and Adjarabet, on the other hand, decreased in their numbers to put their player averages at 1,100 and 1,000, respectively. That did not affect their position on the rankings list, however.
In the US, the joint WSOP and 888 network continues to lead the way in New Jersey with a seven-day player average of 220. Meanwhile in Nevada, WSOP.com also kept its spot as that state’s top poker room with an average of 160 players over the past week.
