Traffic Watch Traffic Watch
Key Takeaways
  • This week the global market fell 3.1%.
  • Traffic remains up 1.9% in September so far, but ideally the market would like to see rises of at least 4% a month in order to have a chance of performing better than last year.
  • iPoker’s challenge for the number two spot occupied by 888poker petered out.
  • The only two gainers in the global top ten were 888poker and Adjarabet.
  • 888 added nearly 8.5% of cash game traffic to fend off iPoker, while Adjarabet took the laurels as best performer, up an impressive 12%.

This week wiped the smile off last week’s cash game traffic gains, as the global market fell 3.1%.

Traffic remains up 1.9% in September so far, but ideally the market would like to see rises of at least 4% a month in order to have a chance of performing better than last year.

The pain was felt across almost all the markets. Honorable exceptions go to Canada, with its single regulated network operating in two Canadian provinces, which increased traffic by just over 5%, and New Jersey which didn’t gain, but lost only one seat from its average on the week.