Casino City's iGaming Pocket Directory - 2013 Edition

POKER Visit iGamingPocketDirectory.com for more information. 71 Sponsored by The new fractured marketplace has created opportunities for new poker rooms in France, Italy and Spain to compete with PokerStars, PartyPoker and other large online poker rooms. In France, Winamax has emerged as France’s most popular online poker room, averaging 1,620 cash game players per day according to PokerScout.com. In fact, Winamax has grown so quickly that it is the eighth-largest poker network in Europe, even though it doesn’t accept players outside France. In Italy and Spain, PokerStars has maintained the dominant market position they hold throughout the rest of the world. PokerStars.it is the largest poker network in Italy and the fifth-largest in Europe, according to PokerScout. But Lottomatica.it and Totosi.it have made the International.it network second in Italy. The PeoplesNetwork. it, comprised of more than 20 online poker rooms, is third in Italy. PokerStars.es is the largest poker network in Spain and the sixth-largest in Europe, according to PokerScout. 888poker.es is second in Spain. And Partypoker.es is third. While new opportunities have opened up in France, Italy and Spain, PokerStars has built up a sizable market edge in the remainder of the marketplace. POKER INDUSTRY OVERVIEW