2014 wasn’t a particularly banner year for online poker in the United States. Will 2015 be a better year? Well it certainly holds the promise for that.

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.

After 11 consecutive weeks of decline, the overall market finally posted a gain this week, up a healthy 2%. 9 out of the top 10 poker sites experienced a gain.

Online poker traffic fell an additional 1% this week, an improvement from last week’s decline of 3% but the seventh week in a row that overall traffic has gone down.

For US Citizens, playing online poker is now, and always has been 100% legal. There is no federal law that prohibits US players from making online poker accounts and playing for real money online.