In accordance to a recent report, two the most popular on-line poker rooms, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, today control a tremendous 60% of the overall industry. When you undestand that the on-line poker industry consists of about five thousand operators, those are some rather impressive numbers for just two united sites.

This week independent poker tracking site, PokerScout announed that an overall enlargement in on-line poker traffic is 0.2%. But it seems that while the traffic itself is staying quite invariable, a great number of gamblers are changing there preferance from smaller poker rooms to these two giants in poker world.

In the end of 2008 PokerStars and Full Tilt were already claiming a half of the entire market share. Being the two biggest and the most popular on-line poker rooms in on-line poker business, both accepting the USA gamblers, it was just a matter of time before their share in this business rose to 60%. In other words, every six gamblers from ten from all over the world play at either Full Tilt Poker or PokerStars.

It doesn’t mean that this news bring inauspicious tidings for the rest poker rooms which take part in the on-line poker industry. Current year have shown a weighty increase in overall gambler traffic, even for the less famous opponents. But while these two giants saw a collective rise rate of 68%, the other on-line poker rooms share an entire rise of about 12%.

Notable growth is markerd for several other popular poker communities, such as Bodog, Everest Poker, Party Poker and the OnGame Network. Recently they were considered children in a world of mature poker sites. But today their popularity has already aged them past adolescence.

The USA gambler adoption cannot be the only motive that attracting so many new gamblers to PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. These two poker giants have more comparative advantages which help them to exceed in. PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker have the greatest on-line poker competition schedules for starters.

Paying attantion to the two communities’s biggest weekly events as an example, we can clearly undestand the advantage. PokerStars is in the lead here, with a weekly $1.5M GTD or PokerStars Sunday Million in other words. Full Tilt Poker’s greatest weekly is the Sunday $750k GTD. The nearest opponent here is Party Poker, with a $300k GTD each week.