The worldwide poker market erased their losses of 3% last week by posting an identical gain of 3% this week, in spite of 8 out of the top 10 online poker sites seeing a decline. The boost was mostly driven by a nice increase by Poker Stars.

While online poker traffic was down for the eighth week in a row, this time it only fell by a miniscule 0.1%, so that’s pretty close to virtually unchanged this time.

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.

Online poker traffic worldwide continues to drop, this week seeing it decline by 4%, a significant amount. This is the fifth week that the market has seen a decline in traffic.

Online poker traffic overall experienced a drop for the third consecutive week, although this week the decline was only by a half a percentage point, so this isn’t particularly meaningful.

Online poker in France continues to outperform the market, led by Winamax.fr, which continues its climb up the rankings and is now up to 4th place overall, riding the wave of its billionth hand promotion.

Online poker traffic rose 1% this week, ending the streak of three consecutive weeks of decline. Traffic is still off 13% from where it was this time last year.  Poker Stars continues to enjoy a huge advantage over the pack.

The worldwide online poker market continues to grow year after year. There are literally hundreds of online poker sites to choose from and where you play does matter, and matters a lot actually.

PokerStars is the world's largest online poker room and is the pinnacle of the online poker industry.
At peak hours, PokerStars can have over 300.000 players online.

"Kid Poker", Daniel Negreanu may be the most recognizable face in poker today. He currently has $14.3 million in live tournament winnings and has four WSOP bracelets.