Last week PokerStars introduced Spin & Go and it was enough to cause a 9% decrease in cash game traffic this week. US prosecutors are seeking to extradite Calvin Ayre and three other Bodog officials.

Full Tilt is on a mission to expand their casino game offerings and they have just added the live dealer format to it. Meanwhile PokerStars have introduced casino games to their Spanish brand.

PokerStars broke out a new promotion called the Summer Daily Challenge. Full Tilt has implemented Rush Poker week. Swiss officials expressed an interest in moving toward regulated online poker.

Winimax’s Expresso sit and go format, which they rolled out a year ago, is really starting to catch on lately, and as is often the case with new poker formats, other sites are copying it.

New Jersey is now looking at granting a license to the new ownership, to finally allow PokerStars to come to America officially. Full Tilt is also looking to expand and they have just applied for a license to operate on the Italian market.

Canadian online gaming company Amaya Gaming has just agreed to pay the massive sum of $4.9 billion to purchase Rational Group, the Isle of Man company that owns Poker Stars and Full Tilt Poker.

Online poker traffic dropped a further 3% this week, adding to the 2% that was lost last week, as PokerStars gave up further ground to resettle back in to their levels before there recent big promotion.

After 11 consecutive weeks of decline, the overall market finally posted a gain this week, up a healthy 2%. 9 out of the top 10 poker sites experienced a gain.

Online poker traffic fell an additional 1% this week, an improvement from last week’s decline of 3% but the seventh week in a row that overall traffic has gone down.

Online poker traffic worldwide continues to drop, this week seeing it decline by 4%, a significant amount. This is the fifth week that the market has seen a decline in traffic.