GGPoker Already Surpassing PokerStars in Numbers

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I logged in today in the morning and to my surprise I saw that GGPoker had ~11k more active players than pokerstars (~26k vs ~37k),

At 18:55 CET I checked again and looks like GGPoker has 80291 active players 64256 on PokerStars.
https://i.ibb.co/8dLmjWp/ggnum.png
https://i.ibb.co/nzmK75d/psnum.png

To be honest, I didn't expect GGPoker to surpass PokerStars as the most popular platform this quickly.

Do you think GGPoker is "stealing" players from PokerStars? If yes, what do you think are the reasons the players are switching rooms?

Personally, I've played much more on GG than PS lately.
I think the PokerStars is superior when it comes to software quality and reliability, despite what I've heard being advertised from GG ambassadors. For instance, if I have a network issue, PS will automatically reconnect when the network is fixed; in GG I've had to re-launch the client every time after getting disconnected.
But GG definitely looks more fun, and the emoji faces make the game more enjoyable.

Rake wise, since I play on the micro-stakes, GG has ~8% rake for MTTs vs ~11% on PS. That's a factor too.
 
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I play both from time to time, but mostly PS recently
GG is fun and nice, but PS provides more quality as you said, even though I do get much more bad beats on PS than on GG, like significanlty
 
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Let's see the numbers after the wsop is over,,, :wavey:
 
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No matter how many people come to the city, it is important how many of them will stay there.:)
 
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Thanks for info, the MTT rake is really a good argument to play more on GGPoker in the future!
But Stars still has better software and many other factors.
By the way, a website called pokerscout has the player numbers of all online poker rooms all the time.
 
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it will get better. if even the best are pokerstars, not for long. multiple portals are competitive. unibet, party poker, gg poker / natural8
 
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