Poker Sites Competition

In a recent poker site popularity statistics, Pokerstars.com leads the net poker market with 25000 'Real Cash' players. It is far ahead of nearest competition Full Tilt Poker which has about 15000 'real cash' players. Full Poker Tilt has seen a decline in the number of players in the first few weeks of February. From 20000 average 'real cash' players the numbers have fallen to around 15000 players. This is not an excellent sign for the site and there is some catching-up that needs to be done. PokerStars has moved way ahead with average numbers as high as 35000 'real cash' players from 25000. However, there is a clear sign that the Top 2 poker sites are way ahead of other online poker sites. There's lots of features which attract players to these 2 sites. A number of them are 100% bonus and giant number of players, tables and tournaments to pick from.
A number of the other sites that have less than 10000 'real cash' players are Party Poker and ipoker. Recently iPoker was losing ground and the average number of players had dropped to around 4700 but recently the numbers have began to pickup indicating better performance of the site. The list of poker sites that are active is long but as they go down the list the number of 'real cash' players reduces dramatically. The performance of a poker site depends on promotion strategies, usability, user interface, tournaments, bonuses as well as a host of other factors.
The list of net sites which have over 1000 players include Ongame which has about 5000 players, Cereus which has around 2000 players, International at very 5000 and MicroGaming Network about 3000. With newer technologies making the launching of poker sites much simpler, the competition among poker sites is set to increase. However, the major chunk of online poker revenues will continue to stick with the leading sites. Poker sites not very reveal their earnings but the top sites generate millions of dollars in gambling funds. Online poker and gambling is illegal in the United States and as a result the bankrolling of funds has come down drastically. If online poker becomes legalized in the United States one will certainly see a immense upswing in online poker revenues.
In the rating list Cake Poker, Entraction, Pacific Poker and Svenska Spel are a number of the other names. A number of the sites accept US players but lots of among them do not, given that online betting is illegal in the USA. Online poker is becoming popular in Europe, Latin The united states and Asia and they are seeing lots of launches happening in these regions. With the US still undecided on the issue operators are taking a look at other destinations where online poker is legal.