People Playing Online is Up

With the economy the why it is, I wasn't sure how online would fare. In the last month I've notice a uptick in players. Wasn't sure if I was right or not, so I went on MarketPulse to see. There graph diffidently shows a up tick, especially at PokerStars. I guess there is alot of people with nothing else to do.

Or a lot of people with nothing to do and trying to make an extra buck or two with online poker. Just have to be careful to make money, rather than waste it...

also.. Full tilt must have made some changes with the credit card acceptance.. because few days ago i used my regular visa credit card that used to rejected and i made a deposit with no problem... maybe more people are having no problem depositing money with their credit cards... ?

Glad to hear it! I'll have to give mine another try. They haven't allowed a deposit using visa for a few months.

I'm in Canada, and I've been using my Visa for deposits for over a year with no problems. I guess they made it easier for American players to use the CC too. Good to see. I never trusted those third party poker Emoney things. Two years ago I had about $300 in some site called edeposit or some shiit, the company went under with no notice and poof, bye bye money. CC is definitly the way to go, as long as you take into account the interest you have to pay to Visa on every deposit you make, and don't go deposit happy just 'cuz it's one click away.

As far as the uptick goes, it makes sense. Lots of people with lots of time on their hands. This is good for the better players among us, as these new players are using some of their last dollars to try to score, and thus IMO will play a little more wrecklessly trying to make somthing happen. Same thing with the lotttery. Why try to save money, cut back on luxury items when you can just buy a ticket to the big score? This mentality applies to the players that are putting their last few dollars of disposable income into online poker. Good for better players, but bad for most people in general.

The more people that get laid off the more people that will be playing. The biggest traffic increase will be midday.