Traffic Insight
Key Takeaways
  • The global cash game market managed a relatively weak gain of just over 0.25% this week, much less than we have seen in recent weeks.
  • Of the global top ten poker rooms and networks, only PokerStars showed growth.
  • PokerStars Italy managed to regain its fifth place ranking, pushing partypoker back into sixth place.
  • MPN slipped two places from last week’s eighth place, but managed to stay in the top ten.

The global cash game market managed a relatively weak gain of just over 0.25% this week, much less than we have seen in recent weeks.

Of the global top ten poker rooms and networks, only PokerStars showed growth on the week. It’s performance was strong enough to take the dot-com market into positive territory, but every other separately reported market fell.

PokerStars Italy managed to regain its fifth place ranking, pushing partypoker back into sixth place. MPN slipped two places from last week’s eighth place, but managed to stay in the top ten.

Global cash game traffic is now down 12.3% from where it was last year and down 28% over the last two years.