One of the world’s leading online poker site sets a new record of affluence with over twenty thousand simultaneous players. Poker Stars.com reported 20386 players playing at the same time. Available records at the site suggest that this is the first time that over 20 000 real money ring game players have taken action at the same time.
Many experts see an contradiction with it was going to be a tough year for the industry, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was designed to downsize online gambling in the US by banning financial transactions with online gambling companies, is at least partially responsible for the phenomenal Poker Stars achievement.

The law, enacted in 2006, resulted in an exodus of respectable and publicly traded competitors from the American market and catapulted the international PokerStars and competitor Full Tilt Poker to the top venue spots of the online poker world. In the year since the law was passed, both of the privately held poker sites have more than doubled in size, but PokerStars retains a better than 2 to 1 advantage over its nearest competitor.

The previous market leader, PartyPoker, reached an all-time high of 16 960 players in 2006 before being forced out of the US market by the UIGEA. PartyPoker saw its traffic cut in half and now sits in third place in the PokerScout rankings.

Indications that PokerStars would hit the record books were clear on December 22 this year, when several poker surveillance sites noted that  Poker Stars traffic had topped out at over 19 900 players, already a record in the history of online poker.

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