PokerStars and Winamax Fighting Neck-and-Neck in European Segregated Market PokerStars and Winamax Fighting Neck-and-Neck in European Segregated Market
Key Takeaways
  • There is been an intense battle going on between the two major the European segregated market.
  • The difference in cash game traffic between PokerStars Europe network and Winamax has shrunk to less than 3%.
  • Both PokerStars’ SCOOP Europe and Winamax Series will be running over the next month.
Data used in this article provided by GameIntel.

Over the past few weeks, there has been an intense battle going on between PokerStars and Winamax for market supremacy in the European segregated market.

The difference in cash game traffic between the two has shrunk to less than 3%. At the time of writing, PokerStars is slightly ahead at 1312 concurrent cash players, while Winamax is just a fraction behind as it boasts 1283 players.

But the pair have already traded places once: in February, Winamax moved ahead of PokerStars for the first time since joining its player pool with Spain. It stayed ahead for nearly a month; PokerStars Europe reclaimed the pole position in the last few days.