August 31, 2017
Online poker fans can look forward to a spectacular September as the top online poker operators compete for their attention with a string of 900 online poker tourneys carrying guaranteed prize pools and other rewards totalling almost $118 million. Over a three week period separate events are scheduled from PokerStars, 888Poker, Winamax and PartyPoker, providing […]
June 20, 2016
The dramatic news over the weekend that daily fantasy sports had been legalised in a last-gasp legislative effort in New York (see previous reports) focuses the spotlight on internet poker, which passed in the state Senate but did not make it through the Assembly due an inability by proposer Rep. Gary Pretlow to garner sufficient […]
June 6, 2016
The independent online poker monitor Poker Scout has released its report for the month of May, noting that there was a significant decline in cash game activity , with seven of the sector’s top ten sites experiencing negative results. The pattern was repeated in the legally-hobbled US market where both legal and illegal operators suffered, […]
April 9, 2016
The independent online poker monitor Pokerscout’s latest Q1-2016 assessment of global online poker traffic shows a further 1.3 percent quarter-on-quarter decline, perpetuating the steady negative trend that has prevailed for the past three years. The monitor’s recorded numbers show that seven day occupied seat average numbers have declined from 56,768 in 2013 to 38,464 currently […]
April 7, 2016
Media reports from the iGaming North America Conference currently in progress in Las Vegas note that one panel was especially interesting to online poker fans as executives from Pokerstars and Caesars Entertainment discussed the barriers to legalisation in the States. Pokerstars’ communications chief Eric Hollreiser and Caesars corporate development boss Michael Cohen demonstrated several areas […]
July 23, 2015
The latest weekly report on global online poker activity from the independent monitor Poker Scout show continued decline in the sector. Based on a seven-day moving average from July 12 to 19, there were 34,736 ring game players, a 3 percent decrease over the week. But on a year-on-year comparison with the same period last […]
June 16, 2015
Online poker cash game traffic last week declined 3 percent – its ninth consecutive week of slumping numbers, reports the independent online poker monitor PokerScout. Only one poker room or network on the top ten leader board experienced rising traffic, one was unchanged and the others were all in decline, the monitor observed.. Pokerstars remained […]
May 18, 2015
The independent online poker monitor Pokerscout’s latest weekly report has little to encourage operators in it, advising that online poker traffic fell across almost all operators this week by an overall 2 percent in its fifth consecutive week of decline, with little change in the leaderboard of online poker operators. On a year-on-year comparison overall […]
April 20, 2015
independent online poker monitor Pokerscout reports that last week was not the best for online poker, with traffic tumbling 5 percent, most of the top 10 sites seeing numbers decline, and total cash game liquidity down 10 percent year-on-year. The monitor draws particular attention to suspected Distributed Denial of Service attacks that have impacted Pokerstars, […]
April 4, 2015
The independent online poker monitor Pokerscout’s numbers for the first quarter of 2015 indicate that cash game activity declined 3.4 percent compared with the same period in 2014. Although disappointing, the downward trend is not as steep as it was when Q1-2014 was compared to Q1-2013, where Q1-2014 was 8 percent down by comparison. Pokerscout […]