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• Bovada Poker has grown in player traffic several fold over the past several years, aided by one of the only squeaky clean reps in US-friendly poker and smart moves like anonymous tables. That being said, reviewing raw player numbers at Bovada Poker is tricky, as they no longer even show a list of cash games in the lobby to get an idea of how.
• Pros love poker sites with the most traffic, too It isn’t just casual players who look for the biggest poker sites. In fact, the majority of professional poker players prefer taking their action to high-traffic sites where there is a decent number of players around the clock.

A poker network is a collection of companies, or skins, pooling their players together in order to create a larger poker room. Imagine this like a car dealership, each dealership is going to give you effectively the same car but each dealership will have different special offers, different levels of customer service and an all together. The poker rooms haven’t necessarily been a bastion of cleanliness in the past. Aren’t going to be able to put through the traffic that they might have had previously. With fewer tables. Affiliates are often instrumental in steering players to poker sites, so Merge's traffic may be adversely affected once June arrives and beyond. Among other unregulated U.S. Poker rooms worth mentioning are the Equity Poker Network and the Revolution Network.

Below is a table of traffic rankings for all of the major online poker rooms and poker networks as of July 2009.

The independent rooms and networks have been grouped in to 4 separate tiers (as shown by the colours). Rooms in this tiers may shift around within them from time to time, but rooms are far less likely to move out of their band.

There is also a handy HAS (Highest Active Stakes) column to indicate to highest stakes that you can comfortably multi-table 4 or more tables on at each room.

Poker room traffic rankings.

Which is the highest traffic poker room?

PokerStars comfortably takes the title as the highest traffic online poker room. Even though PokerStars does not offer rakeback, it does a large amount of advertising and simply offers the best all-round poker room and support to its players.

Full Tilt comes in at a fairly distant 2nd, although it still attracts an extreme number of players to its tables throughout the day. Full Tilt is the highest traffic poker room that offers rakeback.

Fact:Party Poker actually used to be the most popular online poker room back in 2006, but since it stopped accepting US players (thanks to the UIGEA) it has slipped down in to 4th. It's still a very respectable room though.

How important is poker room traffic?

The more traffic a poker room has, the more players there will be at the tables throughout the day. In addition to this, the higher traffic rooms will play host to a greater volume of poor players for you to take advantage of.

So the more traffic a poker room has, the easier it will be to find tables to play at and the greater the number of fish there should be hanging around the room.

Poker room traffic also tends to be a rough indication of how good the room is. After all, a room is only going to be really popular if it has a lot to offer to its players through good software, promotions and support.

Is there much difference in traffic at the rooms above?

The range in traffic between the biggest and smallest poker rooms is quite large. In spite of this, these rooms have enough players to keep the most popular stakes sufficiently active throughout the day.

You should not have any problem at all multi-tabling up to $200NL at any of the rooms above. The table ranks only the more popular rooms, which is why none of these rooms have a horrifically low volume of players.

In all honesty, unless you are a higher stakes player ($400NL or greater), the player traffic at these rooms should not affect you in any way. Some rooms will have more tables running at your desired limit than others, but you're not going to have an issue finding a seat or multi-tabling at the most popular stakes.

If I played $50NL for example, I wouldn't force myself to play at Party Poker over Bodog if I preferred the software and level of competition at Bodog. There will be more than enough players at these stakes at both rooms for the player traffic to not be an issue.

Go back to the Texas Hold'em rooms.

PokerStars Pennsylvania is enjoying an incredible growth in its cash game traffic as a result of the outbreak of coronavirus that forced many to self-isolate at home.

Based on traffic statistics tracked by independent industry monitor GameIntel and available exclusively on the Poker Industry PRO Data platform, our premium news site, PokerStars PA’s cash game traffic has nearly tripled in just less than a month.

The lone operating online poker room in the state is currently peaking at an all-time high, with its 7-day moving average rising to 622 concurrent cash game seats filled, a remarkable surge of 145% since the month started. It beats its previous highest level of nearly 500 seats seen during the first week of January.

Expect that 7-day moving average to continue to soar as single day data points began spiking two weeks ago and continue to rise. As many as 720 concurrent cash game seats were occupied on Monday and that number is only expected to rise in the coming days.

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The traffic counter displayed in the PokerStars PA lobby indicated that more than 3500 seats were filled on Sunday —its most ever at one time.

Online Poker Tournaments in Pennsylvania Seeing Record Turnouts

Not just the cash game traffic, but turnouts for tournaments also accelerated over the past two weeks. For instance, the Sunday Special on March 15 with a boosted guarantee of $50,000 attracted 830 entries to build a prize pool of $76,100.

A week later, the operator bumped its guarantee to $75,000 which ended up attracting 1149 total entries for a total prize pool of $105.4K—its most ever outside of a series. The tournament usually struggles to reach its $40,000 guarantee on a regular Sunday.

The operator also added a couple of new tournaments in response to the huge turnouts, including its $200 buy-in Bounty Builder which boasts a $15,000 guarantee and runs every other day during the week.

COVID-19 Driving Poker Players to Online Platforms

The spectacular spurt in PokerStars’ traffic in Pennsylvania comes in the wake of the global outbreak of coronavirus (also known as COVID-19), creating unprecedented turmoil across the globe.

Various businesses and industries have been impacted including the live poker scene with nearly all casinos and live poker rooms across the country forced to close, driving more and more players to online poker rooms. Not just PokerStars PA, but the online poker industry as a whole has seen a substantial uptick in traffic.

The US is among the countries most impacted by the virus after China and Italy. More than 50,000 people have been infected with the virus in the US, forcing many states to go under lockdown including Pennsylvania.

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As things are not expected to settle down any time soon, the traffic could rise even further and potentially hit its highest levels of the year.

PokerStars PA Growth Welcomed Following Declining Revenues in February

PokerStars PA should be welcoming the growth as the surge in traffic comes just weeks after the room recorded its lowest cash game traffic level in February. The traffic in late February fell to an average of 233 concurrent seats—a drop of 53% off its peak in January. The drop in traffic coincided with a drop in revenue generated last month.

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According to figures released by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) for the month of February, PokerStars PA reported its lowest online poker revenue on a monthly basis in its brief four-month history. The operator generated $1.8 million—an average of around $63k every day compared with an average of $69k per day in January.

But with traffic rebounding strongly in March, PokerStars PA’s online poker revenue in the month could end up breaching the $2 million mark once again and possibly even break December’s record of nearly $2.5 million in revenue.

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The trend is likely to continue in April as the operator is scheduled to host a $2 million guaranteed PASCOOP series starting April 4. This will be the operator’s biggest online tournament series in the US regulated market.