The latest weekly report by independent online poker monitor Pokerscout notes that the recent removal of high stakes cash game tables from Pokerstars has had a minimal impact on the poker operator, attracting a mere 0.6 percent of total players and having little effect on traffic to the site.
It appeared to be a relatively quiet week, with an overall increase in traffic of just 0.1 percent, and the top three sites remaining unchanged at Pokerstars with a 24-hour average cash player count of 20,400; iPoker 2,700 and Party Poker 2,500…the rest of the field trailing at least 700 players short of the lowest leader.
The year-on-year stats continue to depress – overall traffic down 22 percent, with even the three market leaders showing very substantial declines – Pokerstars down 26 percent; iPoker down 36 percent; and Party Poker down 44 percent.