Full Tilt drops to fourth for cash game traffic
Isle of Man and Malta licensed operator overtaken by PartyPoker and iPoker.
Full Tilt Poker has fallen to fourth place for worldwide cash poker liquidity, according to the latest figures from Pokerscout.
It is the lowest the site has ranked since being relaunched under the ownership of Rational Group in November, despite last week seeing the introduction of new formats Irish poker and five card stud.
According to Pokerscout, Irish poker accounted for 3% of FTP’s cash game traffic in the days after its launch, with five card stud contributing a smaller proportion.
The news comes one week after the operator’s inactive dot.fr site had its licence officially revoked as Full Tilt’s former French business Rekop Limited was placed into liquidation.
The decline, while not as steep as the 13% drop seen in one week in December, comes in spite of Full Tilt launching its Malta-licensed dot.eu site to players in a number of EU member states in recent months.
PartyPoker’s rise to second follows the migration of bwin players to the main platform from Ongame in December, though pro forma revenues from the vertical fell 17% year-on-year in bwin.party’s most recent financial figures.
The operator’s partner Zynga is poised to debut its own real-money poker offering, ZyngaPlusPoker, in the first half of this year.
iPoker’s rise up the rankings, meanwhile, comes after the Playtech-owned network added Betfair’s poker offering earlier this year. The operator joins Betclic Everest and Dusk Till Dawn among the new additions to the network in recent months, while the software provider hopes to welcome Ladbrokes following the announcement of a partnership with the London-listed business last week.