Key Takeaways
- The overall market failed to hold steady this week, dropping another percentage point or so.
- 888poker, Full Tilt and PartyPoker all managed to buck the trend each in their own way, but the summer slide continues.
- PokerStars in all its markets is the focus of Traffic Watch this week.
- Its market share has fallen everywhere except Spain over the past year.
- Its Rational Group owners will not be too worried, as the re-launched Full Tilt has more than made up for what declines there have been.
The “bottom of a summer slump” reported last week turned out to be no more than a brief pause in an otherwise relentless decline—the whole market was down another 1.1% in cash game traffic this week. The annual summer decline will reverse, but it looks like we’ll have to wait for September to see it.
