With the boom in poker’s popularity, just how big is it on the Internet? Does it matter? ePokerTraffic.com is helping answer that question with its online poker “traffic reports".
November 20, 2006 (Press Release) --
Los Angeles, California - How big has internet poker become? Should the size of an online poker room even matter to those thinking of giving it a try? ePokerTraffic (www.epokertraffic.com) has all the data, and argues that size is indeed the most important factor.
With the recent boom in poker’s popularity, many people are curious about just how big online poker really is, but until now no one was keeping track. ePokerTraffic, launched last month, has filled that void by providing online poker “traffic reports” with current accurate counts of the number of active players and tables at all the major online poker sites.
Dave Dale, a founder of ePokerTraffic, believes these “traffic reports” are essential for anyone considering playing poker on the Internet. "There is simply no question that bigger is better when it comes to online poker. The larger sites have far more games to choose from, more variety, and are safer – both in terms of keeping your deposits safe and in guarding against cheating and collusion. Although some of the larger sites that had recently become public companies have withdrawn from the United States market since the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA), there are still plenty of legitimate trustworthy sites left with sufficient resources to make sure players are treated right," says Dale.
ePokerTraffic currently monitors and provides its “traffic reports” for the 17 largest online poker rooms. Although that may at first blush seem inadequate, given that there are literally hundreds of online poker rooms; according to Dale, it covers nearly all of the online poker market.
"Many online poker rooms are members of the same poker “networks”. There may be a hundred or more poker rooms at different web addresses, all on a single network sharing the same servers. When a player logs into one member poker room, he or she is actually playing with people who have logged in from any number of the other member sites. Often players do not even realize this. Since each of these poker rooms adopt the entire network’s player numbers as their own, we only need to monitor one representative poker room for each of the poker networks to get accurate player and table counts for all of that network's affiliated sites. We are able to effectively cover more than 99% of all online poker player traffic by monitoring just 17 online poker rooms,” explains Dale.
ePokerTraffic’s “traffic reports” are displayed in easy to understand tables that the visitor can sort by site name, number of players, number of tables, and when last updated. Comparing the poker rooms is made easy with bar graphs and pie charts.
Knowing the relative size of a poker room won’t make you a better a player, or guarantee you’ll win, but at least you’ll be a little better informed, and it just might keep your hard-earned cash safer.
With the recent boom in poker’s popularity, many people are curious about just how big online poker really is, but until now no one was keeping track. ePokerTraffic, launched last month, has filled that void by providing online poker “traffic reports” with current accurate counts of the number of active players and tables at all the major online poker sites.
Dave Dale, a founder of ePokerTraffic, believes these “traffic reports” are essential for anyone considering playing poker on the Internet. "There is simply no question that bigger is better when it comes to online poker. The larger sites have far more games to choose from, more variety, and are safer – both in terms of keeping your deposits safe and in guarding against cheating and collusion. Although some of the larger sites that had recently become public companies have withdrawn from the United States market since the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA), there are still plenty of legitimate trustworthy sites left with sufficient resources to make sure players are treated right," says Dale.
ePokerTraffic currently monitors and provides its “traffic reports” for the 17 largest online poker rooms. Although that may at first blush seem inadequate, given that there are literally hundreds of online poker rooms; according to Dale, it covers nearly all of the online poker market.
"Many online poker rooms are members of the same poker “networks”. There may be a hundred or more poker rooms at different web addresses, all on a single network sharing the same servers. When a player logs into one member poker room, he or she is actually playing with people who have logged in from any number of the other member sites. Often players do not even realize this. Since each of these poker rooms adopt the entire network’s player numbers as their own, we only need to monitor one representative poker room for each of the poker networks to get accurate player and table counts for all of that network's affiliated sites. We are able to effectively cover more than 99% of all online poker player traffic by monitoring just 17 online poker rooms,” explains Dale.
ePokerTraffic’s “traffic reports” are displayed in easy to understand tables that the visitor can sort by site name, number of players, number of tables, and when last updated. Comparing the poker rooms is made easy with bar graphs and pie charts.
Knowing the relative size of a poker room won’t make you a better a player, or guarantee you’ll win, but at least you’ll be a little better informed, and it just might keep your hard-earned cash safer.
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