Weekly Update - U.S. Online Poker Market, Russia Expands Its Poker Black List
View From The Sky
Worldwide internet poker traffic fell by a further 2% this week, a reasonably significant dip, making this the tenth week uninterruptedly that traffic levels have fallen. 7 in the top ten poker sites saw a loss of profits of traffic, with 3 of which posting a gain.
So in spite with the size of the drop it wasn’t as broad based as it may happen to be. Compared with now last year, situations are down by 10%, that's significant but is often a lesser amount than we are already seeing lately.
Full Tilt Poker continues to retain third place overall for the strength with their "Build Your Bonus" promotion. They have widened their lead over third and fourth place now in reality and in addition narrowed the gap together and second place 888 Poker. Their sister site in first place, Poker Stars, continues to have almost 10 times the traffic of someone else though.
The Lights Go Out In Gibraltar
Gibraltar will not be an important country overall, and the truth is may be one from the world’s least significant overall, but this sure isn’t the truth in the world of internet poker.
A power outage hit Gibraltar for some hours on Sunday, producing several popular internet poker rooms going offline for some time, and causing iPoker’s numbers to suffer that day as several of the skins were involved. Party Poker took the worst from it, being down for any total of 13 hours, and forcing the cancellation of several planned events that day.
Decline of New Jersey Market Starts To Level Off
After 90 days of steady decline, the regulated poker market in New Jersey is showing signs that the falloff might be slowing down at least. Overall traffic only declined by 3% immediately, very little higher than the worldwide average decline of 2%.
This probably won't look too exciting but it is actually a lot better than what they are actually seeing there lately. The question is what level do they really wind up settling at, as well as in spite of the losses being smaller this week we have likely not seen underneath quite yet.
As poker traffic declines, a loss of momentum is observed, as some players might not exactly see things as busy enough to get worth their trouble playing, which results in further declines and may become a vicious circle. So the participants in the market aren't any doubt hoping that individuals don’t’ see even more of this.
U.S. Federal Legislation Turns In The Other Direction
For several years now, bills enacted in Congress to appear to manage poker online have suffered with the lack of overall support needed for these to possess chance to pass. The current bill sponsored by Congressman Joe Barton is suffering the same fate and is more likely to fail at the same time.
However, the anti-internet gambling coalition is starting to flex its muscles and it is looking to get legislation of its own passed, especially to take a look to counter the growing amount of states that are considering regulating on-line poker.
The attempts are led by billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson, who's vowed to invest anything to oppose online gambling. With the recent eliminating limits on campaign contributions, he could are able to complete this.
While Adelson is afraid that gambling online will reduce his casino business, fellow casino owner Steve Wynn is just not looking to get involved for another reason. He feels the potential market for regulated gambling online is simply too small to make use of.
If gambling online is anywhere as lucrative as Adelson fears, you would think it would be better for him to participate in on the bonanza in lieu of fight it, nevertheless for whatever reason he remains hell bent on opposing it.
Russia Expands Its Black List Of Poker Web Sites
Russia has taken further steps to avoid its residents from playing internet poker, since they recently expanded their set of blacklisted poker domains. The list now includes a huge selection of poker websites, including some with the biggest names in the commercial.
Russian internet service providers are complying, as they are required to perform, and poker players in Russia are reporting that they are no longer able to access web sites. However, several major providers, including Poker Stars, carry on and serve the market, as individuals who have already downloaded the software program are certainly not prevented from playing as of yet.
Poker Stars is also telling their Russian players that their settlement is safe, this appears being a less drastic move than the one taken by U.S. authorities during Black Friday. Only time will tell though where all this ends up.
View From The Sky
Worldwide internet poker traffic fell by a further 2% this week, a reasonably significant dip, making this the tenth week uninterruptedly that traffic levels have fallen. 7 in the top ten poker sites saw a loss of profits of traffic, with 3 of which posting a gain.
So in spite with the size of the drop it wasn’t as broad based as it may happen to be. Compared with now last year, situations are down by 10%, that's significant but is often a lesser amount than we are already seeing lately.
Full Tilt Poker continues to retain third place overall for the strength with their "Build Your Bonus" promotion. They have widened their lead over third and fourth place now in reality and in addition narrowed the gap together and second place 888 Poker. Their sister site in first place, Poker Stars, continues to have almost 10 times the traffic of someone else though.
The Lights Go Out In Gibraltar
Gibraltar will not be an important country overall, and the truth is may be one from the world’s least significant overall, but this sure isn’t the truth in the world of internet poker.
A power outage hit Gibraltar for some hours on Sunday, producing several popular internet poker rooms going offline for some time, and causing iPoker’s numbers to suffer that day as several of the skins were involved. Party Poker took the worst from it, being down for any total of 13 hours, and forcing the cancellation of several planned events that day.
Decline of New Jersey Market Starts To Level Off
After 90 days of steady decline, the regulated poker market in New Jersey is showing signs that the falloff might be slowing down at least. Overall traffic only declined by 3% immediately, very little higher than the worldwide average decline of 2%.
This probably won't look too exciting but it is actually a lot better than what they are actually seeing there lately. The question is what level do they really wind up settling at, as well as in spite of the losses being smaller this week we have likely not seen underneath quite yet.
As poker traffic declines, a loss of momentum is observed, as some players might not exactly see things as busy enough to get worth their trouble playing, which results in further declines and may become a vicious circle. So the participants in the market aren't any doubt hoping that individuals don’t’ see even more of this.
U.S. Federal Legislation Turns In The Other Direction
For several years now, bills enacted in Congress to appear to manage poker online have suffered with the lack of overall support needed for these to possess chance to pass. The current bill sponsored by Congressman Joe Barton is suffering the same fate and is more likely to fail at the same time.
However, the anti-internet gambling coalition is starting to flex its muscles and it is looking to get legislation of its own passed, especially to take a look to counter the growing amount of states that are considering regulating on-line poker.
The attempts are led by billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson, who's vowed to invest anything to oppose online gambling. With the recent eliminating limits on campaign contributions, he could are able to complete this.
While Adelson is afraid that gambling online will reduce his casino business, fellow casino owner Steve Wynn is just not looking to get involved for another reason. He feels the potential market for regulated gambling online is simply too small to make use of.
If gambling online is anywhere as lucrative as Adelson fears, you would think it would be better for him to participate in on the bonanza in lieu of fight it, nevertheless for whatever reason he remains hell bent on opposing it.
Russia Expands Its Black List Of Poker Web Sites
Russia has taken further steps to avoid its residents from playing internet poker, since they recently expanded their set of blacklisted poker domains. The list now includes a huge selection of poker websites, including some with the biggest names in the commercial.
Russian internet service providers are complying, as they are required to perform, and poker players in Russia are reporting that they are no longer able to access web sites. However, several major providers, including Poker Stars, carry on and serve the market, as individuals who have already downloaded the software program are certainly not prevented from playing as of yet.
Poker Stars is also telling their Russian players that their settlement is safe, this appears being a less drastic move than the one taken by U.S. authorities during Black Friday. Only time will tell though where all this ends up.