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Traffic: Overview in September
In September, the overall growth of dot-com cash games traffic increased by 3.4% and the number of players has exceeded 21,000, which hadn't been seen since June.
Among TOP-5 growth of traffic was observed in all but PartyPoker. The market leader PokerStars has managed to increase traffic by 1.7% thanks to its mini-WCOOP and WCOOP series.
888poker marked with the strongest growth - more than 7%. In August, 888 experienced traffic decrease due to lack of global promotions. However, with such promotions as Super XL and Expect the Unexpected their traffic went up quickly.
iPoker Network has outrun MPN, not having in its arsenal strong promotion (except of Fireworks Missions). IPoker's traffic grew more than by 6%.
But PartyPoker's traffic decreased by 1.6%. All their efforts were focused on Powerfest which was successful. As for Gladiator, it is to gain the momentum.
Finally, MPN network closes the big five. It gave way to iPoker in a competitive struggle, although the network has seen a slight growth in the last month.
The segregated markets, particularly France and Italy, marked double-digit gains in traffic (17.6% and 10.7% respectively).