{"id":779839,"date":"2020-06-02T16:15:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T14:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/unprecedented-popularity-of-online-poker-during-covid-19"},"modified":"2025-04-28T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T21:12:09","slug":"unprecedented-popularity-of-online-poker-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/poker-popularity-covid-19-years-old","title":{"rendered":"The extraordinary popularity of online poker during COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-762175\" src=\"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pokerstars-sunday-million.png\" alt=\"pokerstars sunday million\" width=\"810\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pokerstars-sunday-million.png 810w, https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pokerstars-sunday-million-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pokerstars-sunday-million-768px-427px.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pokerstars-sunday-million-120px-68px.png 120w, https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pokerstars-sunday-million-336px-188px.png 336w, https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pokerstars-sunday-million-216px-120px.png 216w, https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pokerstars-sunday-million-700px-389px.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During the coronavirus pandemic, one of the \u201c<strong>Sunday Million<\/strong>\u201d tournaments held at the PokerStars room set a record and <strong>collected an $18.6 million prize pool<\/strong>. This tournament became one of the largest online poker tournaments in history. The top four players shared a $3.67 million prize.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Best online poker rooms:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class='widget-card placeholder--card'\n     data-source-gql='https:\/\/guru-back.refactoring.dev.gggroup.media\/graphql\/affiliates'\n     data-source-widgetjs='https:\/\/staging--widget-affprojects.netlify.app\/widget.js'\n     data-shortcode='widget-card'\n     data-shortcode-text='[top-poker-rooms-for-post]'\n     data-props='{\n\"show_more_button\":true,\n\"show_more_button_text\":\"Show More Bookmakers\",\n\"show_more_text\":false,\n\"show_less_text\":false,\n\"vpn_notification\":true,\n\"show_more_items_amount\":null,\n\"scrollable\":\"always\",\n\"violet_bonus_text\":true,\n\"ab_testing_show_more_button_rework\":true\n}'\n     data-queries='{\n\"type\":\"TOP-Poker\",\n\"limit\":10,\n\"mobile_limit\":10,\n\"show_new\":1,\n\"button_text_type\":\"TOP\",\n\"language\":\"en\",\n\"project\":\"PM\",\n\"page\":1\n}'\n     ><\/div>\n<p>Overall, the prize pools of tournaments held at both PokerStars and other poker rooms significantly increased during COVID-19. <strong>GGPoker hosted the largest online poker tournament series in history.<\/strong> From May 3-31, a total of <strong>over $100 million was distributed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-762176\" src=\"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GGPOKER-WSOP.jpg\" alt=\"ggpoker wsop super circuit\" width=\"1000\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GGPOKER-WSOP.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GGPOKER-WSOP-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GGPOKER-WSOP-768px-319px.jpg 768w, https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GGPOKER-WSOP-288px-120px.jpg 288w, https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GGPOKER-WSOP-700px-291px.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The popularity of online poker increased not only in Europe but also in the USA and Australia. <strong>In New Jersey, a total of $79.9 million in poker buy-ins was made in April.<\/strong> This figure was more than double that of April 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Australia, interest in online poker <strong>increased by as much as 43%<\/strong>, including the fact that twice as many new poker players registered on poker sites as usual.<\/p>\n<p>The search traffic for online poker <strong>also significantly increased on the Google platform<\/strong>. It reached heights not seen in many years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Synchronizes perfectly with online poker&#39;s cash game traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pokerindpro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@pokerindpro<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GameIntelReport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@GameIntelReport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1yWGKjNozi\">pic.twitter.com\/1yWGKjNozi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anuj Arora (@anuj2212) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anuj2212\/status\/1267400047001362432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Gradually, quarantine in most countries around the world is coming to an end, so it seems that the popularity of online poker will return to normal. People will be able to play not only in online rooms but also in real casinos or tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/naujienos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the coronavirus pandemic, one of the \u201cSunday Million\u201d tournaments&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7774,"featured_media":762175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1655,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized-lt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7774"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779839"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092215,"href":"https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779839\/revisions\/1092215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}