WPT Global is to seize an opportunity to fill a gap in Poland’s online poker market following PokerStars’ withdrawal from the region.
As PokerStars announced it was exiting another market, WPT Global was sitting pretty in second place on the poker site rankings table, according to PokerScout.
PokerStars was once the global leader for the online poker industry, commanding more than 70% market share, but now GGPoker has taken that crown and WPT Global now has the second highest seven-day average cash game traffic metric.
This is incredible for a platform that launched in April 2022. Less than three years to go from nothing to being the main opposition to GGPoker for cash games. Obviously the World Poker Tour branding has helped enormously here.
WPT Global has overtaken PokerStars in the global cash game traffic rankings, the latest figures from Game Intel, available on the PRO Data platform, reveal.
Poker Industry Pro reported:
“By the seven-day average, WPT Global’s concurrent cash game traffic today averages just shy of 2600 players, ahead of its rival, which sits at 2500. The pair switched paces on February 18 and there has been a 100-200 seat gap between the two since then.”
In fact, the first time WPT Global hit second place was in May 2024, with the pair of entities trading places for a few months until PokerStars appeared to have been beaten into third place at best.
WPT Global Seizes the Moment
So, with all of this momentum behind WPT Global, it looks like a great move to capture another significant slice of market share.
Within days of PokerStars putting out its announcement, WPT Global was advertising for a social media manager in Poland with the aim of putting out quality content and advertising campaigns into a market that was worth as much as 5% of PokerStars’ total traffic.
The legal situation in Poland remains one of poker’s many grey areas. Sports betting platforms can apply for a license but no framework exists for online poker.
888, PartyPoker, and PokerStars are now all gone, with GGPoker, true to form, sensing it must do everything the right way by exiting and then coming back licensed with a .pl domain.
WPT Global is going places right now and is definitely one platform to watch for the future. With clear success on the cash game front, can they use the company’s experience in the tournament world to finish the job? We’re sure that they can.
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