Traffic Insight
Key Takeaways
  • A steady decline of 1.9% in cash game traffic took the market briefly below 43,000 occupied cash game seats during the week.
  • Again the top operators all suffered, with the only traffic gains coming from operators putting on specific promotions.
  • iPoker’s 3.5% fall on the week took it below Bodog, which moved up to third place in the global rankings cash game traffic for the first time.
  • The Spanish market provided more reasons to be cheerful, as both PokerStars Spain and iPoker Spain made gains.

A steady decline of 1.9% in cash game traffic took the market briefly below 43,000 occupied cash game seats during the week. Again the top operators all suffered, with the only traffic gains coming from operators putting on specific promotions.

iPoker’s 3.5% fall on the week took it below Bodog, which moved up to third place in the global rankings cash game traffic for the first time.

The introduction of shared liquidity between Delaware and Nevada has upset the data temporarily—it may be a week or two before the true impact of the change becomes clear.