There were plenty of reasons for online poker to sink during last year, the UIGEA, the legal accusations against companies related to online gambling in the U.S., several allegations of cheating by online poker players and some nations in Europe making the impossible to ban online poker. But the online poker industry kept growing and expanding across the globe. The recent report of traffic records in several online poker sites is an indication of the recent One of the indicators of the up scaling success of online poker in the recent months.

Online poker sites such as CelebPoker, Poker Stars, Bodog Life Poker, PKR, Mansion Poker, Full Tilt Poker and some others didn’t wait too much to recover and increase their respective traffics. Money can also show how popular the online poker has become among players. The large amounts of money offered by the online poker rooms in constant basis keeps the general interest focused on the running tournaments and events organized by the sites. In November, Mansion Poker announced its intentions to increase its monthly Grand Tournament from $300,000 to $500,000 after attracting a record 627 players on the previous edition. By December, the site was announcing that it had reached the point where it was hosting more than $11 million in guaranteed tournaments each month.

Titan Poker applied similar techniques and by the end of 2007, it also was announcing more than $10 million each month in guaranteed prize pools. As players sign up for the Sunday Million at PokerStars and more cash games offered in several sites such as Betfair Poker of Full Tilt Poker, online poker doesn’t seem to be pointing to a slowdown in 2008.