PokerStars Traffic

When trying to decide on the best US poker sites, the site’s traffic should be a top priority. Clearly if there are a lot of players in a poker room, then that suggests it has a certain level of quality, but decent traffic is also important for an additional reason. The more players online, the higher the number of really poor players, and we all love fish. Like I've discussed in past articles, PokerStars is a top notch pick because they have the traffic situation well under control. It offers the largest player pool around, at times reaching over 250,000 players logged on.

Sunday is easily the best day of the week to use a PokerStars download. PokerStars holds tournaments with staggeringly large prize pools on Sunday, such as the Sunday Million, which draw crowds of poker players to the site. The tables are always thriving with tournament players, sometimes well over 150,000 at a time. The traffic that these events bring to the site also entices ring game players to the tables, so even if you're collecting PokerStars rakeback from the cash games, Sundays are going to be one of your highest traffic days.

If you're only playing the big Sunday tournaments, then your schedule has already been decided for you. If you want to play cash games to clear one of your bonuses, on the other hand, you should plan your schedule around the traffic. PokerStars enjoys a boost in traffic each day at 2pm ET, which is sustained right through until 10pm ET. This is the case on pretty much any day of the week. As with the other US poker sites, however, the traffic can dip off slightly earlier on weekdays and slightly later on weekends.

The vast majority of players on PokerStars play mainly tournaments, with tournament traffic never too low and often reaching over 150,000 users signed in. Ring games are also never short of players, with an average of nearly 30,000 players usually found on the site and that number rising higher than 40,000 at peak times. Like all the best Mac poker sites, No Limit Texas Holdem is most players' game of choice, but the site also has a solid amount of Limit Holdem and Pot Limit Omaha traffic. The site even has enough traffic for other rarer games like Stud and HORSE.

Whether you prefer tournaments or ring games, log on to PokerStars every Sunday or whichever days you have time between 2pm ET and 10pm ET. In these time slots you should easily see that you are at one of the top Texas Holdem sites on the Internet.