Party Poker's promotion called Pokerfest will pay out a total of $2.4 million in guaranteed tournaments. We’re now into the fourth year of the Full Tilt saga where some American players are still waiting to receive their funds.

The overall cash game online poker traffic numbers fell for the fifth consecutive time. PokerStars has reaffirmed its place as the biggest poker site boasting more players than the next 10 most popular poker sites.

Winamax and Pokerstars have shared dominance of the French online poker market but PartyPoker and iPoker have been making some good gains lately. More Full Tilt repayments set to be made soon.

It’s been five years now since Full Tilt introduced the poker world to its innovative new form of poker called Rush Poker, and soon other sites were coming up with their own similar versions of this format.

Due to the success that Full Tilt is currently having with their promotion called Gold Rush, they have now extended it to Feb. 1. PokerStars’ Italy site has started off 2015 looking to recapture some of the traffic it lost in 2014.

The worldwide online poker cash game player count dropped by 1% this week, which wasn’t unexpected due to the holidays having people busy with celebrating and having less time to play poker.

Things were very stable this week - PokerStars has reaffirmed its place as the king of online poker. PokerStars boasts more cash-game players than the next 10 most popular poker sites combined.

The worldwide online poker cash game market dipped by a total of 7% this week, giving back most of the 10% gain it delivered the week before.

Gus Hansen and Viktor Blom were told they will no longer be representing Full Tilt. PokerStars’ cash game traffic numbers have been declining due to new sit 'n go lottery format called Spin & Go.

Players from New York State have been clamoring for a while for the government to move on regulating online poker. PokerStars saw a decline in cash game traffic for the second week in a row.