Poker Stars Sets New Traffic Record For An Online Poker Room

Sunday December 30, 2007

Leading online poker room Poker Stars reached a advent last time when corporal became the aboriginal room to breach the doorstep of 20,000 simultaneous actual banknote players. Poker Stars, which had lagged unpunctual Party Poker before US legislation forced Party to exit for the Americanmarket, is the largest classify room online.

The accident was reported by online poker traffic pocket watch site Poker Site Scout. According to an article on PSS, Stars hit 20,386 actual beans players on December 27th. Excerpt:

Poker Stars set a newrecord for online poker traffic yesterday, becoming the aboriginal poker site influence history to grasp 20,000 simultaneous actual banknote ring entertainment players because measured by PokerScout. This achievement was imaginary possible access great apportionment by the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, ironically designed to curb online gambling influence the US. The charter, enacted in 2006, instead drove out publicly traded competitors and catapulted Poker Stars and Full Tilt Poker to the top of the online poker world. In the year since the law was passed, both of the privately held poker sites have doubled in size, but Poker Stars retains a better than 2 to 1 advantage over its nearest competitor.