We are a month into the new year and the biggest leap by a poker site within the top 10 in terms of places gained finds Bodog/Bovada landing in fourth place in player traffic after starting 2015 in seventh place.

Bodog currently averages 1,700 ring game players on its tables, a 21% increase over the 1,400 average on January 1. Remember in late 2011 when Bodog was widely criticized after announcing its anonymous tables concept and Recreational Poker Model? Those critics have disappeared.

Another large increase in player traffic in the last 30 days occurred at no. 2-ranked 888poker, who gained 12.5%. PokerScout.com reports that 888 currently enjoys a seven-day average of 2,700 players, up from 2,400 thirty days ago.

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