Wednesday, 12 January 2011

• Huge Traffic on PokerStars

  When trying to decide on the best US poker sites, nothing should be more important to you than traffic. If a lot of people use one particular poker site, then you can expect a lot from it, but high traffic is also awesome for an additional reason. The higher the total number of players, the higher the number of really poor players, and we all know bad players are where the money is. As I have said in past entries, PokerStars is a top notch pick because they have a fantastic player base. It has the best volume in internet poker, at times reaching over 250,000 players logged on.
  
  Sunday is easily the best day of the week to log in to a PokerStars download. PokerStars.com schedules tournaments with staggeringly large prize pools on Sunday, such as the Sunday Million, which draw crowds of poker players to the site. Tournament players turn out in force, sometimes well over 150,000 at a time. The volume of these tournaments encourages ring game players to log on as well, so even if you only collect PokerStars rakeback from cash games, Sundays are going to be one of your highest traffic days.
  
  If you're only playing the big Sunday tournaments, then your schedule has already been decided for you. If you want to play cash games to clear one of your bonuses, though, you need to know at what times to play. PokerStars enjoys a boost in traffic each day at 2pm ET, which is sustained right through until 10pm ET. This trend seems to hold true for most days. Like the other US friendly poker sites, however, players tend to play slightly later on weekends than on weekdays.
  
  The vast majority of players on PokerStars.com favor tournament play, with tournament traffic being consistently high and often reaching over 150,000 users signed in. Ring games are also very well populated, with an average of nearly 30,000 players usually found on the site and that number rising higher than 40,000 at peak times. Like all the best Mac poker sites, No Limit Texas Holdem is most players' game of choice, but the site also has a solid amount of Limit Holdem and Pot Limit Omaha traffic. The site even has enough traffic for other rarer games such as Razz and Draw.
  
  Whether you play MTTs or cash, check out PokerStars every Sunday or whichever days you have time between 2pm ET and 10pm ET. During these peak hours you shouldn't have trouble finding that you are at one of the top Texas Holdem sites on the Internet.

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