What today seem poker rooms online? What is the health of the poker rooms since April 15, when the black friday?

 
First thing to note, the total traffic is quite surprising. A site like PokerStars has between 100,000 and 290,000 players players in the strongest time is Sunday afternoon, the day of the big tournaments. This top 3 in terms of traffic is PokerStars, PartyPoker and iPoker.

 
PokerStars

 
Besides the fact that U.S. players can not attend this room, nothing has really changed at PokerStars. The traffic has dropped so low that more or less attentive to detail the players will not even notice. The room continues to offer promotions, tournaments are numerous, the traffic is excellent (the best of all sites), the software continues to improve and it is very easy to make deposits / withdrawals. A withdrawal of $ 2,500 PokerStars E-Check usually takes 24 hours to reach its final destination, or your bank account.

 
PokerStars has made ​​an arrangement with the U.S. Department of Justice to continue to operate around the world, except the United States. They paid the fines and are back today legally. According to the latest news, everything is fine for this poker room and no threat is coming to PokerStars.

 
For information purposes only, if you plan to go to the United States in the coming months, it is not advisable to try to connect to your account when you're at Uncle Sam, even using a VPN ( Virtual Private Network) or other hocus-pass.

 
To look good in the eyes of the U.S. DoJ, PokerStars has a very serious struggle against offenders who would still like to play poker from the United States. You may be French or Canadian citizens, but the fact of playing online poker on American soil is prohibited. If you do not get caught, good for you, but if you get caught, severe sanctions will be applied; Your account will be frozen until the end of the study of your case and your money could be confiscated.

 
Also here is a testimony from a member on this subject: http://forum.pokercollectif.com/poker-general/39085-pokerstars-doj-vpn-account-locked.html

PartyPoker

 
PartyPoker has taken place which has always been one of Full Tilt Poker is one of the 2nd largest poker room. Traffic on PartyPoker is still about one tenth of the traffic on PokerStars, which corresponds on average to 14,000 players.

 
Party still offers interesting promotions and the poker room is very safe. The software is nice to use and cashouts are relatively quickly. Since PartyPoker withdrew from the U.S. market in 2007 with the passage of the UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act), this room is not in conflict with the U.S. DoJ and its chances of being granted a license to States States the day when online poker becomes legal (hopefully) are very large.

iPoker

 
iPoker has several poker rooms that CD Poker, Titan Poker, Poker 770 ChiliPoker, William Hill and other venues. If the average traffic is 14,000 PartyPoker players, the average traffic on iPoker is 6548 players.

 
The network does not accept U.S. (some networks accept) and several interesting rakeback deals available for players who want to play. No short-term threat is planned for this room, besides the fact that there are more of "bots" (robots) present in this room. We do not yet know if the network has taken adequate measures to prevent the recent outbreak of these robots, but say they disturb several regular site.
Recently, Titan poker site introduced "back bets" on its website.

Ongame

 
The Ongame network is getting better and better. His current average traffic similar to PartyPoker and rakeback deals are excellent. Again, Ongame refuses U.S. players which is a good sign for the future (we do not yet know what the consequences for rooms that still accept U.S. despite current laws).

 
By cons, currently, yet many critics are addressed to Ongame network. Many people experience recurrent problems of software stability. Others find that the cashout is slow.

PokerCollectif would like to hear about these facts. Do you have problems stablity when you play on the Ongame network? What is the normal time for your cashout?


If you still do not have an account on this room and would like to open one, you can do so by taking advantage of a deposit bonus of 100% up to $ 2500 using this link: Bonus Ongame 100 %.

Merge

The Merge Network has recently seen its traffic increase by 15%. This increase is partly due to the fact that the network accepts U.S. players so far. As mentioned above, we have no idea of the consequences of this new policy. In the event that the United States would legalize online poker in the image of France, licensing (in France licenses are granted by the ARJEL), we imagine that the culprits such as Merge network does will not issue a license urgently. For this reason, PokerCollectif not suggesting his players to keep large amounts in their poker account on the Merge network sites.

The Merge network stopped accepting U.S. changed its policy this week.

To date, the networks that accept U.S. are: Merge, Bodog, Cake, Everleaf, Yatahay, First Fidelity, WSEX, Atlantis and Legendz. You will notice that even the largest networks (which have more to lose) do not take this risk.

Cereus

The Cereus Network (Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet) is now (as there is of it over 6 months ago) very strongly discouraged. The network traffic is now almost zero and cashout are not dying in one-legged turtle. On PokerCollectif and forums twoplustwo example, some selling slices Cereus $ 1,000 for $ 100. Despite this windfall, buyers were not lining up at the doors, far from it. The network is on the decline, and despite their deposit bonus of 150%, nobody will suggest you to go play.

Ironically, on their home page, Absolute Poker ask you: "What do you do with your money?" The real question should read: "What have you done with our money?"

Space games (Loto-Québec)

The young poker site Loto-Québec has not been as successful as hoped. By cons, let us say, indulgent and it is still very young and the desire to improve is real.

The average traffic is about 500 players, which is very little. By cons, if the future allows other provinces to join Space-Games, things could change.

This week, we announced LadyLuck (unspecified) that the software remake a beauty in the coming weeks. Hopefully these improvements are enough to seduce Quebec poker players.

For now, the main negative points on the software are: too low traffic, unstable software (table closes randomly, as was the case on the Boss network using the same software) and promotion unattractive (no rakeback).

In terms of positives include the degree to improve the software, having a spokesman listening to our needs (LadyLuck representing space-Games is a regular member of our forums and will bridge between space-Games and members PokerCollectif) and the safe side of the room.

Space-Games is a poker room 100% legal and the opportunity to even enter your fund is non-existent. Withdrawals are also quickly. You do not have to wait two months before you receive your cashout.


Discuss this news on the forums PokerCollectif: What's happening on the different poker networks (Merge, Ongame, Cereus, etc)?

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