Recent
media releases have informed about PokerStars highest cash player traffic registered
over the last weekend, but many people still wondering who’s right after Poker Stars.
Here’s the list of the top 3 online poker sites according to the traffic
registered during the first days of 2008.
1- Poker Stars:
The poker giants still in number one place after reporting that a total of 20.000
players logged onto the website during the weekend.
2 - Full
Tilt Poker: The site reported that a total of 10.000 players at real cash
tables over a 24 hour period.
3- Party
Poker – Even when the site has been doing all what is possible to gain more
customers outside the U.S, the online poker room still getting an impressive amount
of visitors. The numbers are not yeat released, but the site normally reports from
7500 to 8000 players during peak times.
The
remaining sites feature names such as UltimateBet, Absolute Poker and Bodog
Life, which are promising to come up in the next months due their aggressive
advertising. UltimateBet and Absolute Poker are twin poker sites run by
independent managements, but combined they would rank as the 6th largest online
poker traffics behind PokerStars, Full Tilt, PartyPoker.
Last year
Bodog gained a lot of attention after the loss of its domain and the legal
dispute that came after that. BodogLife main brain, Mr. Calvin Ayre is also a
well known character in the world of poker due its continuous apparitions in
reality shows and because his exclusive way of living. Absolute Poker was also in the public eye
after the cheating scandal unleashed by a poker player. The case maintained the
whole poker community waiting for an official answer due the involvement of
former Absolute Poker employees.