PokerSiteScout, which reports on traffic to online gaming sites, has an interesting graph displaying the early reaction to the recent Neteller arrests.
Bodog and Full Tilt appear to have taken a shot to the chops, with the number of peak players down more than 27 percent and 23 percent in a week-over-week comparison of January 12-14 versus January 19-21, 2007.
The figures for changes in the average number of players is not as bad as peak numbers, but even there, Bodog is down nearly 25 percent while Full Tilt shows a drop-off of more than 20 percent.
Industry leader Poker Stars shows a loss of 13 percent during peak periods, while Ultimate Bet, Tain Network, World Poker Exchange, and Action Poker Network all showed a peak player reduction of between 12 and 17 percent. Microgaming Network, which has a lot of European-facing sites in its group, showed a drop off of only 6.3 percent. Absolute Poker fared even better, losing just slightly less than 2 percent.
Of the European sites, which include Party Poker and Ongame Network, none reported a drop of more than 4 percent, with Everest gaining more than 4 percent during peak periods and 8.4 percent in the average number of players.
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