BetMGM Back on Top in Ontario Online Poker – BetMGM Ontario wrestles the lead from PokerStars as the market grows to an all-time high. BetMGM Poker Ontario has retaken pole position in the Ontario online poker market, demonstrating that the operator has no plans to cede the market lead to PokerStars without a fight, the latest cash game data reveals.
In the week beginning August 1, BetMGM Poker Ontario — which also includes the brands partypoker Ontario and bwin on its network — reported an average of 212 concurrent cash game seats filled at its tables, according to data tracked by GameIntel and available exclusively to pokerfuse and PRO .
This put it ahead of PokerStars Ontario, which reported 198 average seats filled.
BetMGM’s numbers were enough to take a 47% market share, marking the operator’s best single week in Ontario since launching there four months ago — and the highest single weekly figure for any operator since market opening. BetMGM Back on Top as PokerStars’ First Series Ends
This will be a welcome return to the top of the pack for BetMGM, which has been neck-and-neck with PokerStars in Ontario for more than a month. The last time pokerfuse checked in on the Ontario cash game market a month ago, BetMGM was still narrowly holding on to the market lead with 146 cash seats on average — a hair’s breadth ahead of PokerStars’ 145.
As predicted at the time, Flutter’s online poker room overtook the BetMGM Poker network in Ontario soon after. Indeed, throughout July, PokerStars kept ahead of its rival, peaking at 201 concurrent cash game seats in the last week of the month, an all-time high for a single operator in the regulated market.
Still, BetMGM stayed in lockstep, reporting its all-time traffic high of 196 in the same month. Data provided by GameIntel PokerStars enjoyed a boost thanks to the Ontario Platinum Series (OPS) — not only the operator’s first tournament series but the first run by any operator in the regulated Ontario market.
The OPS was a win for operator and players alike . It was an ambitious series, with […]
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