PokerStars Extends Cash Game Market Lead as Rewards Trial Enters Final Month

PokerStars has widened the gap with GGPoker in the cash game traffic rankings as it is about to enter the third and final month of a new trial of its rewards program. The global online gaming giant has been locked in a battle with the upstart since the early summer.

GGPoker Network has been growing its cash game traffic dramatically over the last couple of years, and dethroning PokerStars has been on the radar since the beginning of the year. In June, it finally happened: After 15 years at the top, PokerStars was knocked off its perch.

But the battle was far from over. The pair traded places multiple times in July and in early August PokerStars regained the lead. Since then, the gap has only widened.

Today, PokerStars enjoys an average of 5700 concurrent cash game players at its tables on its primary dot-com poker network, while GGPoker sits at around 5300, according to the latest data tracked by independent industry monitor GameIntel and available exclusively to all subscribers on the PRO Data platform.

And, while that is a difference of only 6%, it is the widest gap between the two in three months and a bigger lead than GGPoker ever enjoyed when in pole position.

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