Poker Room Insight
Key Takeaways
  • PokerStars tournament revenue soars and its new multi-day scheduled tournament draws crowds.
  • New Jersey online poker revenues find a floor.
  • Operators prepare for Romanian regulation.
  • PlanetWin365 could give new lease of life to Ongame.

PokerStars

Global cash game traffic may have reached new lows, but the market leader appears to be doing just fine.

Amaya CEO David Baazov told investors last week that it’s online poker operation was not in decline, with big growth in tournament revenues more than offsetting a slight decline in cash game traffic.

Nearly 2 million new players had signed up to PokerStars and Full Tilt in the last quarter, taking total registered players on the platform to 95 million.