Victory Poker Where Are You? Early Numbers Show Promise for Cake
Victory Poker was supposed to be migrating to the Cake Online Poker network on Wednesday September 1, 2010. As of Wednesday evening, the VictoryPoker.com URL led us to a dead page. By late night Wednesday, the Victory Poker migration appeared to be complete. A message suggested that Victory Poker players could download the new client at 9 pm EST.
Victory Poker had announced a lavish party in London that featured Playboy Playmate Sara Underwood in a cage.
Some preliminary numbers for Everleaf, the poker network Victory is leaving, show a 24 hour peak of 745, a weekly average of 385, and the current number of players as of press time 9 pm EST at 236. Everleaf does accept U.S. customers so one would expect the peak traffic period to be during the evening hours. By comparison Cake had 1154 players at 9 pm EST.
Gambling911.com has predicted that Victory Poker, a company which markets more aggressively than the brunt of its competitors, could allow Cake Poker to overtake Pacific Poker, Everest Poker’s French arm and Svenska Spel, all of which rank a mere 100 to 200 “real cash” players more on average than Cake. Victory’s player base should be enough to push beyond that number.
And Victory Poker players will now be able to take full advantage of Cake’s fantastic September online poker promos that include a shot at $30,000 and a Gold Card Reward Program where ring game players can earn randomly released Gold Cards for every hand they are dealt. Players collect these cards until they choose to redeem them in one of Cake Poker’s daily Gold Card tournaments.
Patrick Flanagan, Gambling911.com
