The summer of 2011 was very marked in the spring of 2011 with the "Black Friday" this factor that led to many changes in online poker. On this summer traffic in online poker rooms worldwide fell 3%. The "Merge Gaming Network" grew 4% based on news of reopening to the U.S. market that has not happened yet, also the Bodog Cake Poker Network and have been catching up since Black Friday.
The poker room market leader continues to be PokerStars the only real competitor that they have at the moment is the network iPoker.