Poker Information Site Ranks

Top 25 Non-Cardroom Poker Websites

Top Poker SitesAny traffic ranking estimates are inaccurate, and some are more inaccurate than others. Alexa, for example, has been around a long time, despite its extremely inaccurate, easily manipulated rankings. Many sites even promote themselves by having employees use the clunky spyware known as the Alexa toolbar (which is entirely what Alexa bases rankings on). This becomes readily apparent if Alexa says most website visitors come from some non-likely country (like Sweden), or if many visitors go to password-protected subdomains. Novices may look at Alexa, but experienced professionals pay it little attention. Imperfect, but much more accurate ranking outfits are Hitwise.com, Compete.com and Quantcast.com. (See the tables below.)

Accessing Hitwise data scales upwards from $20,000 for a year. Data from Compete.com and Quantcast.com is free. The first major disclaimer is all these numbers are US traffic only, which means that the traffic numbers for multi-language sites like pokernews.com, playwinningpoker.com, pokertips.org, poker-babes.com and cardschat.com are significantly lower than they really are, and that the real market share for the English-only sites is lower than it appears -- because the multi-language sites are more popular than they appear, and because one-language sites like pokerlistings.de or poker.fr are basically not counted at all.

The Hitwise data below is averaged over the entire year of 2007, while Compete.com and Quantcast numbers are current for the timeframe stated on the table.

Forums rank better with Hitwise because the same visitor is counted many times, while Compete.com and Quantcast count a visitor once a month regardless of how many times he or she visits a site. Compete.com seems to also consistently favor forums over non-forums compared to Quantcast, which makes that the main difference between their numbers. Rogue sites making glitches via pop-ups or other tactics are discarded.

Finally, some choices of what to include as "poker" sites was arbitrary. Hitwise has "poker" and "gambling directories" categories, but what they do and don't include is inconsistent. Cardrooms are not included here. Sites listed at the end of the article were not included for various reasons.

The estimates below are the best information available. Click the links in the upper right of this page to go to pages where most of the listed sites are discussed in further detail.

Cardplayer.com 77,505
Worldseriesofpoker.com 73,603
Playwinningpoker.com 61,177
Twoplustwo.com 59,944
PokerPages.com 57,845
Pokernews.com 42,665
Pokerlistings.com 42,355
Sharkscope.com 39,051
Poker.com 38,816
Pocketfives.com 35,888
Worldpokertour.com 32,448
Bluffmagazine.com 31,874
Launchpoker.com 24,962
Officialpokerrankings.com 23,249
Flopturnriver.com 23,162
Cardschat.com 21,628
Fullcontactpoker.com 18,913
Learn-texas-holdem.com 16,418
Pokertips.org 16,307
Parttimepoker.com 13,479
Homepokergames.com 13,398
Texasholdem-poker.com 12,652
Poker-babes.com 12,617
Pokertracker.com 12,504
Neverwinpoker.com 12,028

--Below Top 25 --
Poker.net 11,031 (for March)
Thepokerforum.com 10,578
Pokerstrategy.com 10,397
Internet-poker.co.uk 10,079
Pokersourceonline.com 9,587
Calculatem.com 9,246
Tightpoker.com 9,143
Allvegaspoker.com 9,044
Pokerplayernewspaper.com 8,577
Pokerworks.com 8,547
Thehendonmob.com 8,272
Pokerjunkie.com 7,801
Cardrunners.com 7,456
Internettexasholdem.com 7,240
Holdemgenius.com 6,699
Everypoker.com 6,390
Pokersyte.com 5,420
Compatiblepoker.com 5,142
Findpokerpal.com 4,836
Pokerroad.com 4,003
Europeanpokertour.com 2,820
Poker.about.com (not able to be ranked)
Wickedchopspoker.blogs.com (not ranked)

Playwinningpoker.com 96,554
**Cardplayer.com 85,226
Pokernews.com 66,637
Poker.com 61,337
Sharkscope.com 59,322
Worldseriesofpoker.com 51,997
Launchpoker.com 47,294
Pokerlistings.com 44,281
Pokerpages.com 40,285
Officialpokerrankings.com 40,117
Twoplustwo.com 39,536
Bluffmagazine.com 38,582
Worldpokertour.com 36,532
Wickedchopspoker.blogs.com 36,163
Poker.about.com 35,982
Fullcontactpoker.com 32,906
Pokersourceonline.com 32,543
Poker.net 31,564
Thepokerforum.com 30,336
Pocketfives.com 29,995
Flopturnriver.com 28,995
Neverwinpoker.com 24,312
*Thehendonmob.com 22,050
Cardschat.com 20,328
Allvegaspoker.com 19,555

--Below Top 25 --
Pokertips.org 19,545
Learn-texas-holdem.com 18,942
Homepokergames.com 16,298
Poker-babes.com 16,261
Texasholdem-poker.com 15,991
*Internettexasholdem.com 13,258
Pokerworks.com 12,996
Pokertracker.com 12,280
Holdemgenius.com 11,888
Cardrunners.com 11,828
*Pokerplayernewspaper.com 11,291
Tightpoker.com 10,930
*Parttimepoker.com 9,951
Everypoker.com 8,376
Findpokerpal.com 7,838
Internet-poker.co.uk 7,796
Calculatem.com 6,318
Pokersyte.com 5,939
Compatiblepoker.com 5,055
Pokerjunkie.com 3,428
Pokerstrategy.com 2,744
Europeanpokertour.com <2,000
Pokerroad.com <2,000

Cardplayer.com
Sharkscope.com
Pokerpages.com
Pocketfives.com
Twoplustwo.com
Poker.com
Worldseriesofpoker.com
Pokerlistings.com
Playwinningpoker.com
Fullcontactpoker.com
Bluffmagazine.com
Worldpokertour.com
Pokernews.com
Officialpokerrankings.com
Amateurpokerleague.com
Allvegaspoker.com
Poker.net
Cardschat.com
Flopturnriver.com
Texasholdem-poker.com
Pokersourceonline.com
Homepokergames.com
Thepokerforum.com
Pokertips.org
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Neverwinpoker.com
Launchpoker.com
Poker-babes.com
Compatiblepoker.com
Cardrunners.com

*These sites have placed the Quantcast.com pixel on their site's pages so their numbers also include a global traffic number, but their US numbers are listed here for consistency (and that is how Quantcast.com shows their overall rank). Also, the addition of the pixel no doubt significantly increases the visitor count for sites that have it, and the number is likely quite accurate.

**The Quantcast.com page for Cardplayer.com reveals an interesting detail of why they rank higher on Hitwise and Compete.com. Notice in the lower left media.cardplayer.com is shown separately. media.cardplayer.com would rank about #20 when tracked separately, but of course that would be silly because media.cardplayer.com is displayed on Cardplayer.com pages (some pictures are hosted on the media.cardplayer.com subdomain). So, Quantcast.com not counting hits on those images is sensible. A few other sites have separate subdomains mentioned in the lower left, but in all cases Quantcast.com says 100% of those people also visited and were tracked to the parent domain -- i.e., Pokerpages.com, Twoplustwo.com, etc. So they seem to be doing a good job of offering detailed information, but not mistakenly counting people as "unique" twice (or more)

Sites that could potentially have been included:
- Pokerplayersalliance.org, is a political site not a game one.
- Casinocity.com, Pagat.com, and Lasvegasvegas.com have primarily non-poker related traffic.

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