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03 7th, 2010
Between the LAPC and WPT Invitational winners, Isildur1 getting busy online and the start of the NBC National Heads-Up Championship there was nary a dull moment for poker fans.
As usual, we’re going to list some of the poker stories you might have missed as part of our ongoing Poker News in Brief feature.
This week we’re going to take a look at online gambling in Iowa, a WSOP all-star game, Roland de Wolfe winning a London tournament and more.
Legal Online Gambling in Iowa?
Iowa is the latest U.S. state apparently looking at legalizing online gambling.
Rep. Doug Struyk of Council Bluffs told the Quad City Times that 50,000 people in Iowa already participate in online gambling and the government could provide better protection for them if the industry was legalized and regulated.
Struyk’s proposal would regulate the practice through the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission.
If the proposal was to go through Iowa would become the first state in the country to allow online gambling.
Tiger Woods Turns Down Paddy Poker Deal
Many of Tiger Woods major sponsors have dropped him since his sex scandal broke, but at least one online poker room seem to have no problem with the golfer.
Ireland-based Paddy Power Poker reportedly offered the disgraced sports star a five-year deal worth $75 million to represent the site.
Although Woods has already turned the offer down, Paddy Power Poker has claimed it is planning on coming back with an even better offer in the future.
It’s not the first time a poker organization has offered a deal to a fallen sports star. Last summer the Asian Poker Tour invited Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps to its Macau event.
A picture of Phelps holding a bong surfaced on the internet in early 2009, which led to several sponsors dropping the multiple gold-medalist.
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Rolande de Wolfe Wins London Open
Full Tilt pro Roland de Wolfe outlasted 110 players to win the 2010 Mansion Poker Les A London Open last week.
De Wolfe overcame a final table of mostly unknown players to win the
Recently, gossip site TMZ reported that embattled professional golfer Tiger Woods, fresh off a highly publicized marital tiff, turned down a $75 million sponsorship offer from the online sports book, casino, and poker site Paddy Power.
As its name implies, Paddy Power makes its bread and butter off the Irish poker market. TMZ explained that the multi-faceted online outlet approached the 14-time major champion with an offer it thought Woods couldn’t refuse. TMZ recounted, “Tiger Woods just blew off a $75 million endorsement offer from an Irish gambling company – and that is how you know you’re rich.” The offer was reportedly for five years, but Woods turned down the lucrative proposition despite its long-term potential.
The news comes one day after five-time NBA champion Dennis Rodman became the official celebrity endorser of the Network site . Despite being dumped on the first round of negotiations, Paddy Power will apparently return to the bargaining table with another offer, according to TMZ. Paddy Power is a member of the massive iPoker Network, which is the fourth largest worldwide according to the traffic ranking site PokerScout.com. The network does not accept members from the United States.
Despite not accepting action from the populated North American nation, Paddy Power Poker could have used Woods’ recognition around the world to attract customers to its site. Woods has won tournaments across Europe, Asia, and Australia in addition to his domination on the links in North America. He’s arguably the most recognizable name in the world of golf.
In late 2009, disaster struck for Woods. A purported past of infidelity finally caught up to the golf superstar, leading to an infamous run-in featuring his wife Elin Nordegren, a Cadillac Escalade luxury SUV, a golf club, a fire hydrant, and a tree in front of his Florida home. As news of Woods’ crash spread around the internet like wildfire, major sponsors began questioning their relationship with the 34 year-old.
Among the first Fortune 500 companies to cut bait with Woods was Accenture, followed by AT&T, Gatorade, and Gillette. According to a study released by the University of California – Davis in late December, Woods’ extracurricular activities could have cost shareholders of associated companies between $5 billion and $12 billion. The study examined businesses including Accenture, AT&T, Electronic Arts, Gillette, Nike, Gatorade, TLC Laser Eye Centers, and Golf Digest. The study added that Woods raked in $100 million annually from endorsements, “more than any other athlete.”
Woods spoke to the media in mid-February about the incident and may return to golf. The Masters, which Woods has won four times, will kick off from Augusta National Golf Course outside of Atlanta on April 6th. He last took down the high-profile tournament in 2005.
Paddy Power Poker has a bevy of promotions taking place, including Cashpoint, whose format is similar to ’s Gladiator. Paddy Power Poker players who rack up 100 Paddy Points for 10 days or more during the month of March are eligible to win cash prizes. The site will take a player’s 10 highest earning point days during the month and match $1 for every 20 points earned on the lowest day. The minimum payout is $5 and players can also qualify for a $2,000 Cashpoint freeroll.
Other sites on the massive iPoker Network include bet365, CelebPoker, Chili Poker, Mansion Poker, Noble Poker, , , and . The publicly traded company Playtech owns and operates the network. Playtech is traded on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol “PTEC.”
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Last week, Congressman Barney Frank (D–MA) garnered another co-sponsor to his internet gambling bill, bringing the total number of co-sponsors, including Frank himself, to 66. HR 2267, the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act, would establish the regulatory and licensing framework for online gambling in the United States, moving internet poker out of the gray legal area that it has long been in and into the light of complete legality.
The new co-sponsor is Charles Wilson, a Democrat from Ohio’s 6th Congressional district, which starts in the Mahoning Valley in the north and runs 325 miles down the Ohio River. Cities in the district include Bridgeport, Canfield, Wellsville, Ironton, and Ohio’s first city, Marietta. National Journal Magazine released its “Voting Ratings” issue last week, labeling Wilson as a centrist. Out of the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, he ranks as the 192nd most liberal and the 239th most conservative. Wilson is the third Congressman from Ohio to co-sponsor HR 2267, joining fellow Democrats Steve Driehaus and Tim Ryan.
Below is the list of HR 2267’s co-sponsors, organized by state:
Alaska
Don Young (R)
Arizona
Raul Grijalva (D)
California
Michael Thompson (D)
George Miller (D)
Michael Honda (D)
Linda Sanchez (D)
Bob Filner (D)
Adam Schiff (D)
Lynn Woolsey (D)
Colorado
Jared Polis (D)
Ed Perlmutter (D)
Betsy Markey (D)
Connecticut
Joe Courtney (D)
John Larson (D)
Christopher Murphy (D)
Florida
Robert Wexler (D)
Alcee Hastings (D)
Hawaii
Neil Abercrombie (D)
Idaho
Walt Minnick (D)
Illinois
Luis Gutierrez (D)
Bill Foster (D)
Indiana
Andre Carson (D)
Louisiana
Charlie Melancon (D)
Massachusetts
James McGovern (D)
Barney Frank (D)
Michael Capuano (D)
William Delahunt (D)
Michigan
John Conyers (D)
Missouri
Russ Carnahan (D)
William Lacy Clay (D)
Nevada
Shelley Berkley (D)
New Hampshire
Paul Hodes (D)
New Jersey
Robert Andrews (D)
Frank LoBiondo (R)
John Adler (D)
Steven Rothman (D)
Bill Pascrell (D)
New York
Tim Bishop (D)
Steve Israel (D)
Peter King (R)
Carolyn McCarthy (D)
Gary Ackerman (D)
Joseph Crowley (D)
Jerrold Nadler (D)
Edolphus Towns (D)
Mike McMahon (D)
Charles Rangel (D)
Paul Tonko (D)
Eliot Engel (D)
Daniel Maffei (D)
Anthony Weiner (D)
North Carolina
Melvin Watt (D)
Northern Mariana Islands
Gregorio Sablan (D)
Ohio
Steve Driehaus (D)
Tim Ryan (D)
Charles Wilson (D)
Oregon
Earl Blumenauer (D)
Tennessee
Steve Cohen (D)
Texas
Ron Paul (R)
Ciro Rodriguez (D)
Vermont
Peter Welch (D)
Virginia
Bobby Scott (D)
Tom Perriello (D)
James Moran (D)
Washington
Jim McDermott (D)
Adam Smith (D)
While Wilson has not issued a statement regarding the online gambling bill, he likely feels that one major positive aspect of regulation and legalization is the potential tax revenue to be collected. In a recent article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Rep. William Lacy Clay (D–MO) gave part of his reasoning for supporting Frank’s bill. “We should not be so naive to think that we are going to do away with gambling by passing that law (the in 2006),” he said. “I think $42 billion (the amount of tax revenue estimated from online gambling over the next ten years) is a significant sum that the federal government needs to fund some of the programs that are worthy and that Americans benefit from.”
Added his colleague, Russ Carnahan (D–MO), “It’s the kind of thing that requires clear rules and regulations so that it functions well.”
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A total of 22 players remain in the L.A. Poker Classic, a stop on the (). 2001 () Main Event champ Carlos Mortensen leads the way with 1.67 million chips.
Mortensen sent Michael Woo to the rails in 23rd place. Woo pushed all-in on a board of J-8-4-3 with three clubs, flipping over pocket queens. Mortensen made the call and showed pocket jacks for top set. Needing to catch one of the two remaining queens in the deck on the river to stay alive, Woo watched as an ace hit, sealing his exit. He picked up $45,000 for his efforts in the $10,000 buy-in poker tournament.
Thirty minutes prior, Mortensen had doubled up through Raymond Dolan. Mortensen held pocket aces in the hand and Dolan held jacks. The hand boosted Mortensen to 960,000 in chips, kicking off “The Matador’s” last–minute surge to the top of the pack. Mortensen has two WPT titles under his belt. He won the Season 3 North American Poker Championship for $1 million and also came out on top in the Season 5 WPT Championship for nearly $4 million. He’s second all-time to with $5.26 million in WPT earnings and would become just the second three-time WPT event winner, the other being .
Mark Newhouse, who held the chip lead entering Day 4 on Monday, finished with the second largest stack at 1.31 million. Newhouse doubled up through Dan “Wretchy” Martin late in the day. On a board of 7-5-3-J-Q, Newhouse pushed all-in for 561,000, nearly the size of the pot, and Martin made the call, flipping up pocket kings for an overpair. Newhouse, however, showed J-7 of spades for a turned two pair, pushing his chip stack to 1.5 million. Martin, meanwhile, dropped to 500,000 after his aces were cracked, but finished the day with 684,000, good for seventh place on the leaderboard.
Also doubling up late in the day was UB.com pro and Poker News Daily Guest Columnist . The top female pro picked a prime spot to shove with A-K pre-flop, as Masa Kagawa called and showed A-Q. The flop came ace-high and no queen came for Kagawa, doubling Duke to 266,000 in chips. She ended the day at 241,000, the second shortest stack in the room next to John Cautela’s 219,000.
Ten-time WSOP bracelet winner remains in contention and doubled up on Monday with pocket aces against pro Hoyt Corkins’ pocket kings. The board came 7-7-6-9-8 and Chan moved to 450,000 in chips. He ultimately ended with 406,000, the 17th largest stack entering Day 5. Chan and Doyle Brunson are tied with 10 bracelets each, trailing only ’s tally of 11 for most all-time.
When play resumes today at Noon PT at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles, the blinds will be 6,000-12,000 with an ante of 2,000. The following 22 players remain in the hunt for the top prize of $1.8 million:
1. Carlos Mortensen - 1,669,000
2. Mark Newhouse - 1,308,000
3. Raymond Dolan - 1,229,000
4. Masa Kagawa - 1,129,000
5. Andras Koroknai - 1,002,000
6. Tri Huynh - 942,000
7. Dan “Wretchy” Martin - 684,000
8. Jean-Claude Moussa - 672,000
9. Steve Sung - 671,000
10. Jim Casement - 609,000
11. Tim Begley - 603,000
12. Gevork Kasabyan - 594,000
13. Jamie Brown - 552,000
14. Mari Lou Morelli - 456,000
15. Dylan Linde - 447,000
16. Bob Kairnes - 421,000
17. Johnny Chan - 406,000
18. Danny Fuhs - 379,000
19. Michael Kamran - 327,000
20. Connor Allisen - 324,000
21. Annie Duke - 241,000
22. John Cautela - 219,000
Each player left is assured a $45,000 payday, while the top nine will take home at least $100,000. Despite the tournament already being down to 22 runners, the final table will not take place until Thursday. Stay tuned to Poker News Daily for the latest WPT coverage.
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Despite an ongoing court battle to rid the state of 141 internet gambling sites, Kentucky’s House passed a bill taxing online and phone “advanced deposit wagers” on horse racing by an 85-8 margin. Now, the measure will be discussed in the Kentucky Senate.
Sites like TwinSpires.com, which is owned by the parent company of the Churchill Downs racetrack, operate legally in the state and allow residents to wager on the ponies online and over the phone. On Friday, Kentucky House Bill 368 passed by a 10:1 margin after Democratic Speaker Pro Tem Larry Clark brought the legislation to life. According to an newspaper, Clark asserts that up to $400,000 per year could be pulled down as a result of taxing online and phone bets just 0.5%.
One-third of the tax would go to the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, one-third would go to the track the bet was placed with, and the final portion would supplement the track’s cash prizes. Clark told the Louisville media outlet, “I think that it’s a way for us to advance the tracks as far as adding more purse money… so I think it’s something the Senate would look at. They talked about last session, when they did not want to do slots, finding more revenue for (tracks). This is one avenue that would find more revenue for them.”
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is two months away from hosting the annual Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville. The “Fastest Two Minutes in Sports” plays out on the first Saturday in May every year and attracts celebrities and high rollers from around the world. In the past, online poker rooms like UB.com have held promotions in conjunction with the gala.
TwinSpires.com caps online and phone bets at $2,500 per transaction and a minimum deposit of $25 is required. The site has a mailing address in Kentucky, but is licensed in Oregon. Last year, the Kentucky legislature ultimately failed to approve a similar measure, which would have taxed internet and phone bets at a rate of 3.5%, or seven times the amount of the current version of the bill.
The Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, led by J. Michael Brown, has been on an 18-month witch hunt against the owners of 141 internet gambling domain names, including those belonging to industry giants and . In September 2008, the State seized the rights to the domain names and sought their forfeiture before members of the internet gambling industry stepped in. The Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA) has led the charge on behalf of the 141 sites in jeopardy.
In October 2009, lawyers representing iMEGA, the Interactive Gaming Council (IGC), and several of the sites at risk pleaded their case in front of the Kentucky Supreme Court. A ruling cannot be handed down until March 18th at the earliest. Other possible release dates for the Supreme Court’s verdict are April 22nd, May 20th, June 17th, August 26th, September 23rd, October 21st, November 18th, and December 16th.
The Commonwealth charged that the 141 domains constituted “gambling devices,” a term that is traditionally reserved for physical objects like slot machines and roulette wheels that you’d find in an illegal underground casino. Judge Thomas Wingate upheld the State’s actions in an October 2008 ruling before the Kentucky Court of Appeals overturned it by a two-to-one margin in January 2009. During October’s Supreme Court hearing, State officials repeatedly noted that Kentucky’s legislature had not yet acted on the legality of internet gambling outside of horse racing.
The Courier-Journal added that Illinois and Virginia had taken similar approaches to taxing online wagers on horse racing.
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02 25th, 2010
“It’s really hard to describe, but it feels really good,” said Marchese, a Seton Hall drop out turned online poker pro who has moved his way up to some off the biggest games on the Internet since leaving school.
“It hasn’t really set in yet in terms of the money and the accomplishment. I’m kind of just letting it all sink in.”
Eric Blair, who actually finished eighth at Borgata, was the first player to exit Wednesday’s final table in Las Vegas when he shoved with sevens facing a Marchese raise.
Start-of-day chipleader Sam Stein pushed in over the top with ace-king and after Marchese folded, a king on the flop sent Blair out eighth again.
A veteran of 26 World Series of Poker final tables, including three wins, Full Tilt pro John Cernuto can now add a PokerStars NAPT seventh place finish to his resume.
Cernuto moved up from his short stack position to start the final table, but after getting all his chips in the middle pre flop with ace-five, he was outdrawn by Stein’s jack-ten.
Soon after, 2007 EPT Baden fourth-place finisher Tom Fuller saw his stack dwindle and shipped it in with jacks against a Daniel Clemente raise.
Clemente called with queens to send Fuller out sixth.
With more than a 2:1 chip lead on the nearest player to him and a little less than half of the chips in play, Stein appeared to be running away with the NAPT Vegas title.
His domination even continued when he five-bet shoved with jacks into David Paredes aces and hit a jack to rail him fifth.
Four-handed play went quite long with Stein finally losing the odd pot, but not the lead.
However, Marchese got healthy when Clemente shoved into his turned full house and the New Jersey native said it was then he felt winning was a distinct possibility for the first time.
After doubling once to stay alive, Yunus Jamal was sent packing fourth losing a race with tens versus Marchese’s ace-queen.
A few hands later, Marchese shoved with queens, Clemente called with ace-eight and missed to bow out third.
02 23rd, 2010
And while it is hardly chock full of big names, the final eight is an interesting mix of youthful talent on the rise and at least one veteran player who seen it all before.
The event began four short days ago with a whopping 872 players and all the fanfare live PokerStars tournaments have built a reputation for.
But as a field of top pros, Internet qualifiers and Las Vegas rounders taking a shot at the big time fell by the wayside, 22-year-old Sam Stein pushed his way into the chip lead.
Stein, who made the final table at the World Poker Tour’s Legends of Poker event this past August, will carry that chip lead into Wednesday’s final eight.
Now he’s hoping the experience of playing in front of the WPT cameras will pay dividends here at Venetian.
“I think there’s only one player that’s even been under the TV lights before and that’s ‘Miami’ John Cernuto,” said Stein.
“He’s an older guy and he’s been around the block, but he’s a short stack, so that’s good.
“The other guys are mostly online guys, they’re all good players and everyone is playing really well, but the experience of playing under the lights and how they’ll react to that, we’ll have to see. It’ll be a different game.”
As Stein mentioned, Cernuto is the most venerable player to earn a spot on the NAPT’s first final table.
Short stacked almost all day, Cernuto said the experience of an amazing 26 World Series of Poker final tables, three WSOP bracelet wins and a WPT final table certainly helped him stay patient.
“Experience has already paid off,” he said. “I’ve watched players with way better shots to win the tournament just give their shot away. They just gamble, gamble, gamble. I don’t know if it’s an ego thing, a testosterone thing or a youth thing.”
Regardless, Cernuto is the still the short stack going into the final and understands that these days, being the oldest player at the table doesn’t necessarily make you the most experienced.
“Experience does give you an edge, but I’m not necessarily more experienced than these kids,” he said.
“Every five years I’ve played poker they’ve done in three months on the Internet. So they may even have more experience than I do.”
Thomas Fuller will come into the final table third in chips and with a fourth place finish at EPT Baden in 2007 and more than $600k in career tournament earnings over five years as a pro, he’ll bring some experience with him as well.
Sitting third is law school grad and hedge fund employee turned cash game pro David Paredes, while Yunas Jamal, a Software engineer from nearby Henderson, Nevada with a few decent cashes on his part-time poker playing resume will come in fourth in chips.
Lurking dangerously under Jamal is 22-year-old Tom “Kingsofcards” Marchese, a regular at the $25/$50 cash games online who has played as high as $500/$1,000 with some the biggest names in the game.
Marchese, who hadn’t had much success in live tournaments before making the final table of the Borgata Winter Open Championship earlier this month, believes his nosebleed cash game experience is key.
“I think it really plays to my advantage,” he said. “A lot of people are concerned about the money. I don’t even know what I’d get paid now. All I know is that first is like $870,000. I thinks that’s a huge advantage when play tightens up.”
Rounding out the final eight is Eric Blair, who just missed a WPT final table making eighth at Borgata in last year and 37-year-old live pro Dan Clemente, who has earned almost $200k from live tournaments with buy-ins $1k an under throughout his eight-year career.
The final table will play out beginning at 2 p.m. PST and PokerListings will have comprehensive coverage on our throughout.
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02 23rd, 2010
There are reasons to believe a key senator is beginning to come around on the issue of online poker.
Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has long been thought to be on the fence with his legs swung over the side opposing Internet gaming. Though he’s still…
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Recently, Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, a Republican who has been a longtime proponent of making online gaming and poker illegal and a staunch supporter of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (), dropped his opposition to several of President Barack Obama’s nominees to the Treasury Department.
With the end of the hold by Kyl, three key nominees to the Treasury Department - Marisa Lago, Mary John Miller, and Charles Collins - passed through Senate confirmation hearings. Kyl’s ending of his opposition was not entirely related to online gaming, however.
Kyl, who wanted the UIGEA to take effect late last year and blocked Treasury appointments due to its delay, was a part of what some would consider to be a keen poker move by the Obama administration. Earlier in the week, Obama notified Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that he would use the Congressional recess period, which started today and ends on Friday, to make recess appointments of many of the nominees that currently face Senate approval.
This move, which has been used by the Oval Office to bypass Senate approval for nominees who were log-jammed by the opposition party, would in effect remove the Senate from having any voice in the matter. Facing a strong bet by the Obama administration, several Republican senators, including Kyl, folded their hands, dropped their opposition, and allowed the nominees to go through.
According to Dan Friedman, a writer with Congress Daily, the UIGEA might have had some effect on Kyl’s decisions. “My understanding is that Kyl placed the hold because he was upset at the delayed implementation of UIGEA,” Friedman told Poker News Daily.
Kyl has maintained his objections to online gaming since he was elected Senator from Arizona in 1994. Prior to 2006, Kyl frequently introduced legislation that would make it a criminal act to participate in online gambling and poker. While his efforts were never passed into law, in 2006 he was one of the chief proponents of a bill introduced by fellow Republican Representative Jim Leach of Iowa to make it illegal for financial institutions to process online gaming transactions. That bill would become the UIGEA and was passed as a rider on a critical piece of national security legislation in a final late night session in September 2006.
Although House of Representatives member Barney Frank (D-MA) has introduced legislation that looks to overturn the UIGEA and tax and regulate the internet gambling industry, the measure has not yet cleared committee. Frank’s Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act (HR 2267) has been held up by other pressing issues facing Congress and the Obama administration. It is also thought that many elected officials don’t want to take a stance on such a divisive issue during an election year.
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02 10th, 2010
Every Sunday, our friends at PokerScout.com release their Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update, which gives us a feel for the current trends in player activity around the internet poker industry. PokerScout monitors real money cash game player traffic at over 30 different online poker rooms and networks and ranks them according to their seven-day averages. Visitors to the site will notice that these numbers come in well short of what the poker rooms report in their lobbies. This is because tournaments and play money games are not counted. Players who multi-table, however, are counted multiple times; the traffic counts reflect the number of real money cash game seats occupied. For the first week of February, several poker rooms traded spots in the rankings.
The majority of the movement was in the bottom half of the top ten. The Network, home to Power Poker, Doyle’s Room, the brand new Unabomber Poker, and its flagship Cake Poker, jumped both the Microgaming Network and International Poker Network (IPN), climbing from tenth to eighth in the cash game traffic standings. As of Tuesday afternoon, there is little separating the three networks, as Cake Poker has a seven-day average of 2,250 players, while Microgaming and IPN are tied at 2,200. Microgaming, once one of the most popular networks for online poker, is comprised of almost 50 rooms, including Gnuf and . Boss Media’s IPN is headlined by the once independent Paradise Poker, as well as Yahoo! Poker and Poker Heaven.
Just above those three networks is the CEREUS Network, made up of and UB.com, switched places with , the former falling to seventh and the later bumping up to sixth. At a seven-day average of 2,500 and 2,450 cash game players, respectively, both a starting to feel the Cake Poker Network breathing down their necks.
Out of the bottom half of the top ten, only Cake and CEREUS accept players from the United States.
Elsewhere in the rankings, the Everleaf Network continues to move since merging with the Universal Poker Network, moving up another spot to 18th. The launch of Victory Poker is also possibly giving the network a boost, as it is offering attractive bonuses and to attract new customers.
PokerScout.com named as its standout performer, as it saw its cash game traffic increase 25%, likely because of new promotions.
At the top of the rankings, there has been no movement for the fifth straight week. still dominates everyone, with 32,600 cash games players on average. Poker is next at 16,600, followed by at 5,400 and the iPoker Network at 4,850. Overall, PokerScout reported that online poker traffic increased just slightly from the previous week after falling for three weeks straight.
Compared to the same time a year ago, the most notable gainers in traffic were Full Tilt (68%), PokerStars (43%), and the Cake Poker Network (42%). The iPoker Network (23%) and Svenska Spel (20%) were the most notable losers since the first week of February.
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