Online Poker Juggernaut PokerStars Soars Into 2009
January 8, 2009
It’s no shocker that PokerStars leads the online poker industry in active, real-money player traffic. The online poker room has been doing that for quite some time now. PokerStars had an immensely successful year in 2008, however, and is soaring into 2009 on titanium wings!
The juggernaut of the online poker industry, PokerStars saw so much success in 2008, especially in the last quarter, that industry analysts are now reporting PokerStars to control a staggering 35% of the online poker market.
Dan Stewart, owner of PokerScout and long-time assessor of online poker traffic stated, “That market share is the highest it’s ever been for PokerStars.”
The online poker room consistently draws in excess of 100,000 active, real-money poker players at any given time. PokerStars currently holds a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for facilitating the most online poker players participating in simultaneous games at 151,758; as well as the largest poker tournament participation levels at 35,000. That’s much higher than even the WSOP has ever drawn.
The mounting success of PokerStars may pose a grave challenge to smaller online poker rooms in the new year as PokerStars continues to attract myriad poker fans to its site. Bigger names like Full Tilt Poker shouldn’t have too much to worry about as Full Tilt also saw extreme growth in the final quarter of 2008.
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