When trying to decide on the best US poker sites, nothing should be more important to you than traffic. Clearly if there are a lot of players in a poker room, then you can expect a lot from it, but decent traffic is also important for a further reason. The more players online, the more bad players there are amongst them and, let's face it, we all love fish. As I have said in previous entries, PokerStars is a great choice because they have the traffic situation well under control. It boasts the highest volume of all online poker sites, sometimes with over 250,000 users online.

There's no better day of the week than Sunday to log in to your PokerStars download. PokerStars hosts tournaments with staggeringly large prize pools on Sunday, such as the Sunday Million, which results in a massive amount of site traffic. Tournament players turn out in force, sometimes well over 150,000 at a time. The traffic that these events bring to the site also entices ring game players to the tables, so even if you only collect PokerStars rakeback from cash games, Sundays will still feature among your highest traffic days.

If the guaranteed prize pools on Sundays are all you're interested in, then your schedule has already been decided for you. If you want to find the juiciest cash games around, however, you should plan your schedule around the traffic. PokerStars reaches high traffic each day at 2pm ET, and maintains this volume until 10pm ET. This trend seems to hold true for most days. Like the other US friendly poker sites, however, players tend to play slightly later on weekends than on weekdays.

The vast majority of players on PokerStars.com play mainly tournaments, with tournament traffic being consistently high and often reaching over 150,000 simultaneous users. Ring games are also never short of players, with an average of nearly 30,000 players usually found on the site and that number rising higher than 40,000 at peak times. Like all the best Mac poker sites, No Limit Texas Holdem is most players' game of choice, but the site also has a solid amount of Limit Holdem and Pot Limit Omaha traffic. The site even has enough traffic for other rarer games like Badugi.

So, tournament or cash game player, log on to PokerStars every Sunday or whichever days you have time between 2pm ET and 10pm ET. In these time slots you shouldn't have trouble finding that you are playing on one of the top Texas Holdem sites around.
 


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