Victory Poker, which currently makes its home on the Everleaf Network, will soon be leaving for the more populated Cake Poker Network, a source who wished to remain anonymous told Poker News Daily. CalvinAyre.com published a story on potential landing spots on Thursday, adding some fuel to the speculation.
Victory Poker officials may be opting for a network with a larger player base in order to offer a wider variety of tournaments and cash games. The Everleaf Network, which boasts a family of sites that includes Everleaf Poker, Minted Poker, and Poker4Ever, ranks as just the 22nd largest worldwide in terms of real money ring game traffic according to PokerScout.com. Over the past seven days, the Everleaf Network has hosted an average of just 370 cash game players. Its traffic is on par with that found on win2day.
Contrastingly, the Cake Poker Network is the 16th largest worldwide in terms of real money ring game players. Despite being just six spots higher in the PokerScout.com traffic rankings, the Cake Poker Network averages 840 cash game players, more than twice as many as the Everleaf Network. The Cake Poker Network includes rooms like Cake Poker, DoylesRoom, Only Poker, Power Poker, Red Star Poker, and Phil Laak’s Unabomber Poker, which launched earlier this year.
Both the Cake Poker Network and Everleaf Network accept players from the United States. A story that appeared on Thursday on CalvinAyre.com detailed a possible move for Victory Poker: “Victory Poker CEO Dan Fleyshman has publicly promised to make ‘an exciting Victory Poker announcement’ at his birthday party in London September 1st, Dan has been spending an usually large amount of time in Vancouver over the past month, and two major poker networks – Cake and Merge – have offices in Vancouver.”
Victory Poker’s team of sponsored pros includes Antonio Esfandiari, who co-starred with Laak on MOJO’s prop betting show “I Bet You.” The two remain close friends, but whether Laak’s involvement with the Cake Poker Network was a factor in the move of Victory Poker remains to be seen. Other Victory Poker pros include Keith Gipson, Brian “tsarrast” Rast, Andrew “good2cu” Robl, Dan Bilzerian, former Playboy Playmate Sara Underwood, and poker coach David “The Maven” Chicotsky.
Other sponsored pros of Victory Poker include Lee Markholt, Paul Wasicka, Alec “traheho” Torelli, James “Andy McLeod” Obst, and former World Poker Tour Player of the Year Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little. Joe Navarro and mind coach Sam Chauhan also work with the site.
One of Victory Poker’s more distinctive promotions involves one lucky player each week battling against a site pro. On the line is a $500 cash prize and the opportunity to play for the jackpot goes to the winner of Victory Poker’s weekly rake race. The heads-up event takes place at 23:00 server time each Tuesday night.
A small thread on TwoPlusTwo focused on the CalvinAyre.com story, with one poster asserting, “I hope Victory does move, particularly to the Merge Network.” Poker News Daily can independently confirm that Victory Poker will indeed head for the Cake Poker Network instead of the Merge Gaming Network, whose flagship site is Carbon Poker.
Stay tuned to Poker News Daily for the latest developments in the rumored departure of Victory Poker from the Everleaf Network.
Too bad you left out the best room on the Everleaf Network which is RaiseandFold Poker Room. No one on that network comes close to doing what they do for us players. Too bad they are just a gem in the rough right now. Not sure why those other rooms get mention. Look at pokerscout and see the reviews.