| 03/20/2010 |
Online Casino Style: News |
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The latest statistics from the independent website Poker Scout have become available to the internet gambling community, showing that the game of poker despite some claims of saturation is actually still on the rise. The report, which was dated for the week ending March 7th, showed an overall increase in online poker traffic of 1 percent, taking intop account the numbers provided by a few of the top internet gambling providers. Additionally, the survey showed that six of the top ten sites made more significant gains in profits. Poker Scout takes into consideration the membership increases, daily sign-ons and other facts to give an overall perspective on the online poker market, a service provided like no other in the online gambling world. They publish what is called the Poker Scout’s Top of the Charts list, showing the top ten most popular websites for the period. This time around, four of the top ranked spots hadn’t moved from their last placing, marking the ninth week in a row that the online casinos were able to hold their own against new competition. Operators, players and investors will all be happy to have statistical confirmation that the online poker market continues to grow, as the year-on-year numbers steadily gain ground. Online poker traffic as a whole is developing an annual increase of growth at 21 percent, despite economic difficulties. "After weeks of losing ground to Poker Stars, Full Tilt Poker logged a solid increase for the second straight week, rising 5 percent," the Poker Scout report read. "During the Poker Stars 40 billionth hand promotion, Full Tilt had briefly fallen below half the size of its larger rival, but is now safely above that mark. After surging ahead to sixth place with a 12 percent rise last week, Cereus Network fell back to seventh with a corresponding 12 percent drop.” Sixth place was lost by Cereus to IPN; Svenska Spel and Pacific Poker switched up the 12th and 13th place slots, with the former seeing a 7 percent traffic boost in the last week. |
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