Online poker traffic records in 2008 | IXGAMES
New record for overall Internet poker traffic
Online poker got off to a fast start in 2008 -Â as several rooms and the industry as a whole experienced record highs of real-money simultaneous players in the opening days of the new year. January 7’th, the total combined real-money peak traffic of online poker rooms exceeded the previous record of 95,000 poker players, a high that had been set only days earlier. 
Individual rooms and networks that saw records broken this week included OnGame - Everest - International Poker Network and PKR. Ongame hit the symbolic mark of 10,000 poker players at peak for the first time, and industry giant PokerStars.com surpassed their own record with a monster tally of over 23,000 on January 6th. Recommended Poker Sites: Full Tilt Poker  Carbon Poker  Intertops Poker