massive grow of online pokerz ?

Looking at the average traffic of Online poker sites poker has grown a bunch !

Pokerstars currently averages a traffic of 33K real money players
Full Tilt poker averages a traffic of 18K real money players

1 year ago

Pokerstars 18K average traffic of real money
Full Tilt 8K average traffic of real money

overall nowadays its quite freqent to see more than 200K users on Pokerstars or 120K users on FTP online.
1 year ago it was more like 130K / 50K ....

quite sick imo

but games are getting harder...variance...impossible regs at nl25...

Games actually seem like they've gotten softer since summer. Maybe its because of the seasons.

On January 10 2010 14:08 Zep wrote: but games are getting harder...variance...impossible regs at nl25...

You dont need to think like this, nothing will good will ever come out of it. And I'm quite sure the regs at NL25 are not impossible to beat.

On January 10 2010 14:17 Maynard! wrote: Games actually seem like they've gotten softer since summer. Maybe its because of the seasons.

agreed about getting softer, but wonder if it has anything to do with people not being in the fear mode of "omg economy is collapsing, depression coming, save all money!" Things still aren't "good" but people aren't in panic mode anymore so maybe that's got something to do with the softer games.

Back to point, how does this affect the statement "games are getting harder to beat". I mean, if they've doubled the traffic it would seem like there is a alot more money in the game now, and not all players who start are going to make the games tougher.

quite a number of small sites lost good reputation, perhaps players left the shady sites and joined PS/FTP, traffic on UB used to be better than it is now on Cereus.(that could be scandal's fault, very interesting if the on other small sites grew)

ship it

NL25 REGS ARE AMAZING

nl25 regs are pretty sick no doubt

i dont know how anyone can think nl25 is hard to beat?!?

everyone sucks at poker, no one is good.

more and more ppl are turning into rakeback sne grinders thats whats going on.

too many people playing it like a set

The other day I was playing live, and this dude sat down at my table. He goes, "I play online--I'm NL25 reg." I just left--I knew immediately the table had just turned impossible.

25nl is serious business no doubt

ROFL, was going to make a 25 impossible joke but phexac stole the words from my mouf

On January 10 2010 15:20 LikeASet wrote: too many people playing it like a set

and

On January 10 2010 15:25 phexac wrote: The other day I was playing live, and this dude sat down at my table. He goes, "I play online--I'm NL25 reg." I just left--I knew immediately the table had just turned impossible.

hahahaha so good :D:D:D

Hello David,

Thank you for your email.

Yes, there are really over 300,000 players online!

The number of players listed online is simply the number of players who are logged in. As such, the same person is not counted multiple times if they are playing on more than one table.

If you have any further enquiries, please let us know. Best of luck and enjoy the games!

Regards,

Ian Y
PokerStars Support Team

concrescence - this is interesting cuz I thought that PS counted players multiple times (and so the increasing numbers were nothing to celebrate about)

if it really is people logged in, then yeah, it is gr8!