Key Takeaways
- The shape of the global cash game traffic graph as the online poker market emerges from the post-Summer low has given cause for concern and then in September, relief as the upwards trajectory accelerated.
- Since then, the recovery has stuttered and a simple extrapolation suggests that the market is heading for a seasonal peak—in early January 2015—some way below the peak seen this year.
- It is true that fifth ranked partypoker has not yet seen a traffic turn around, and is hitting new lows, but global number two, 888poker looks to be having a normal recovery.
The shape of the global cash game traffic graph as the online poker market emerges from the post-Summer low has given cause for concern and then in September, relief as the upwards trajectory accelerated.
Since then, the recovery has stuttered and a simple extrapolation suggests that the market is heading for a seasonal peak—in early January 2015—some way below the peak seen this year.
However, the dominant role played by PokerStars in the global market is distorting the picture.
