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Full Tilt Poker player traffic dropsPlayer traffic at FullTilt Poker has been on a rapid decline as measured by their cash game traffic according to the stats found on Pokerscout an independent poker traffic stat tracking site.

The once popular poker room Full Tilt, find themselves occupying the number four spot in global poker traffic stats since being reopened under the control of PokerStars.

When FullTilt Poker reopened back in November 2012, albeit without their USA players, they immediately catapulted back to their original second place spot that they had occupied prior to closing and it certainly seemed like Full Tilt  were back on track to maintaining steady traffic flow once again, however this traffic was short lived as many players simply cashed out their funds (USA players can only cashout now) and moved on to greener pastures including the likes of PartyPoker, 888 Poker and iPoker (Titan,Winner).

To a large extent, FullTilt Poker have created their own demise by offering players below par bonuses and thinking along the lines of PokerStars management who offer little in terms of player rewards.

One could always argue that PokerStars deliberately intended to crash Full Tilt Poker, doing so would surely improve their own position in the market with less competition.

PokerScout Current Traffic rank (7 day average):

  1. Pokerstars – 23,600
  2. PartyPoker – 3,300
  3. iPoker (Winner, Titan) – 3,200
  4. Full Tilt Poker –  3050
  5. 888 Poker – 2,450

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instant play Poker games and mobile Poker appsWe have compiled a summary of which online poker rooms offer instant play poker versions of their software; it covers most of the poker games we offer on our site.

Instant Play Poker provides users with an alternate version of the poker room client that requires no download and permits them to play directly from a browser.

The main advantage of poker instant play software is that it supports far more operating systems than the standard poker client usually allows. Instant Play poker is playable from Mac’s, Linux and all versions of Windows OS directly from the player’s favorite browser.

There are some disadvantages of playing instant play poker in that usually the game lacks certain features found in the full downloadable client versions of the software.

Due to the recent surge in popularity of poker mobile apps, we have included mobile poker apps to the list too, we believe in time the mobile poker app market will become a major player in the poker industry especially seeing that latest smart phones with Android OS / IPhone OS can run flash based poker games.

Several poker rooms like Full Tilt Poker have already identified this ever increasing mobile poker trend and are getting in early on the poker mobile action with the launch of their Rush Full Tilt Poker mobile app, but others like PokerStars are sadly left behind. Come on PokerStars get your act together, where is your PokerStars Mobile game or even a PokerStars instant play version?

Portability and accessibility are the major driving forces behind the demand but on the other hand playability seems somewhat dampered at this early stage.
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