This article lists the poker networks in size order from the biggest networks to the smallest – I’ll update this article every few months with the latest figures, so make sure you bookmark The Poker Bonus Network Today!
While the two biggest poker sites of all are stand-alone sites, many of the popular poker networks feature heavily in the top rankings for poker traffic. Best of all, by playing on a poker network you get the benefit of players from all sites involved.
This article lists the biggest poker networks, using the most up to date data available. While we do not differentiate tournament from cash game traffic, all of these number are for ‘real money players’. It would make no sense to exclude the bigger stand-alone poker sites in our listing – so I have put them in. This list is from Fall of 2010, I’ll update it every 3 months minimum, so do bookmark this page now.
#1 Pokerstars 180,000 Pokerstars Review
#2 Full Tilt Poker 85,000 Full Tilt Poker Review
#3 Party Poker 70,000 Party Poker Review
#4 iPoker Network 67,500 iPoker Network Information
#5 Everest Poker 23,500 Everest Poker Review
#6 OnGame Network 22,000 OnGame Network Information
#8 Boss / IPN 17,250 Boss Media Network Info
#7 Cereus Network 17,000 Cereus Network Information
#8 Microgaming 12,000 Microgaming Network Information
#9 Cake Network 11,500 Cake Poker Network Information
#10 Pacific Poker 10,000 Review Coming Soon!
#11 Merge Network 8,000 Merge Poker Network Info
#12 B2B Entraction 6500 B2B 24h Network
#13 PKR Poker 6000 PKR Poker Review Coming Soon!
As you can see from this list, there is a huge difference between the biggest sites and the rest. Since most of the players (65% to 80% depending on the site) are tournament, rather than cash game fans this translates into a major difference in the promotions, give-aways and special offers that the networks can offer.
We also need to bear in mind that there are dynamics within the list from month to month and within the year. Sites move network fairly frequently, especially where the mid-sized networks are concerned. Cake and Merge Networks are great examples of new sites joining (and bringing considerable player pools) with them in recent times.
Promotions and events also affect players, an example of this the running of the ‘World Championship Of Online Poker’ at Pokerstars might easily give them a boost of several thousand players each September.
Astute readers will have noticed the absence of Bodog Poker. I do not cover this room anywhere on my network for personal reasons, and so will not be adding them to this list either – sorry!
To conclude we need to ask – Is the biggest also the best when it comes to online poker sites? This question is answered in our section on the Best Poker Networks – check it out now.