The Restoration of America’s Wire Act has now been introduced in both the US Senateand House of Representatives, causing at least a little bit of concern in the poker world, but that does not mean that efforts to legalize online poker in individual states has stopped.

It was only a week ago that the online poker player pools of Nevada and Delaware were mergedin the United States’ first interstate online poker compact, but the change is already paying dividends for the First State. According to PokerScout’s Weekly Scouting Report, the effect the merger has had on cash game traffic has been […]

Over the past 18 months, the story of Lock Poker has continued to get worse. This week in its Scouting Report, PokerScout has presented some information to show just how far Lock Poker has fallen in the poker community.

According to this week’s PokerScout Scouting Report, the coming year will be a pivotal one not only for Russia, but also for online poker worldwide. “Players from the Russian Federation currently comprise a significant portion of total traffic on many of the largest poker sites,” the PokerScout report stated. “But if the Russian government has […]

PokerStars is into the second week of its December Festival, a month-long celebration in which at least $15 million in cash will be handed out across a wide variety of game types. Usually, poker room promotions focus on just tournament players or just cash game players, but this one has something for everybody. The first […]

As you probably know by now, PokerStars, the largest online poker site in the world, bumped the rake in its cash games, tournaments, and sit and gos. The cash game players most affected are high-stakes grinders, those who prefer Heads-Up No Limit Games. PokerStars doubled the maximum rake to $1 for all No Limit games […]

This week, the popular Scouting Reportfrom PokerScout took a look at SEO from the major non-US online poker sites. In other words, when a prospective customer searches terms like “poker,” “online poker,” “holdem,” and “free poker,” how do the major sites stack up? And, is there a correlation between SEO visibility and liquidity? Does a […]

The secret is out: Lottery Sit and Gos are popular. They caught on quickly when they were introduced by Winamaxin July 2013, again when they were launched by iPoker earlier this year, and yet again when Full Tiltand PokerStars.es got on board more recently. But they officially hit the prime time when PokerStarsrolled out its […]

We all know that PokerStarsrules the roost in the online poker world in terms of cash game volume. It has been at the top of PokerScout‘s cash game traffic rankings for years and shows no signs of coming close to relinquishing that spot any time soon. With a seven-day average of 20,000 cash game players, […]

This week, the cash game traffic monitoring site PokerScoutreported mostly negative news about the state of the online poker industry in its latest Scouting Report. Cash game traffic fell 1% from the week before and, compared to the same time last year, traffic is down 8%.

According to the PokerScout Scouting Report, the last four years have shown a shift in player preferences on PokerStars in terms of the stakes they play. Looking at levels that range from $0.01/$0.02 to $2/$4, the shift has shown a predominance toward lower-stakes play. From 2010 to 2013, play at $0.02/$0.05 showed an increase of […]

Lottery-type sit and gos are the new big thing in online poker, the next wave of games to attract casual players after fast-fold tournaments. To review, lottery sit and gos are short-handed, hyper-turbo, single-table tournaments with small buy-ins ranging from $1 to $10. Typically winner-take-all, they feature randomly drawn prize pools that are announced once […]

On Sunday, the World Cup final between Germany and Argentina played out from Brazil. Football fans from across the world tuned into the match, which – spoiler alert – saw Germany win 1-0 in extra time. As you might have guessed, many poker players, especially those in Germany and Argentina, were glued to the game. […]

According to the Weekly Scouting Reportpublished by the cash game traffic monitoring site PokerScout, the 2014 FIFA World Cup is depressing internet poker traffic around the world.

In December 2013, the Pennsylvania Legislature authorized a study of the condition of the state’s gambling industry as well as what may be in store for the future. Econsult Solutions was tasked with this challenge and has now released its report.