The Top 5 online poker sites and networks have changed so much over the last decade but has since seemed to stabilize after Black Friday.

One of the constants for the most part of the decade has been PokerStars leading the way since 2006 when PartyPoker withdrew from the US market after the UIGEA was introduced.

Full Tilt has since fallen from the list of top 5 online poker sites and focused on online casino games which now includes a Liver Dealer casino. Amaya Gaming acquired The Rational Group, the company which owns both PokerStars and FullTiltPoker, under new ownership the online poker giant hopes gain first position in the regulated poker market in the United States.

888 and bwin.Party were amongst the first to start operating in New Jersey, 888 also provides it’s software for the official WSOP poker site which operates in New Jersey and Nevada. 888 also operates the All American Poker Network and provides software for the Delaware Poker Network which features three online poker sites.

The iPoker Network of more than forty online poker sites keeps their current position in 3rd place with only a few hundred players difference between 2nd place poker site 888poker.

Top 5 – Online Poker Sites and Networks in 2014

The eGR Operator Awards 2013 took place at The Roundhouse in London on 25th November, the awards ceremony rewards excellence in e-Gaming each year.

888 won Operator of the year 2013, Best Poker Operator 2013 as well as Best Casino Operator 2013.

888Poker has won Best Poker Operator for three consecutive years at the EGR awards and will no doubt be celebrating their achievements in the online gaming industry.

More than 700 online gaming operators were included in the nominations with awards given out for several categories including: poker, casino, sportsbetting, bingo, mobile products and many more.

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New Jersey poker sites have launched their software in a testing phase to be complaint with regulation before the official launch of their operations.

So far only a few land based casinos should be approved for the soft launch these include: Golden Nugget Casino, Caesars Interactive Entertainment, Borgata Casino, Tropicana Casino, Trump Plaza and Trump Taj Mahal.

The Atlantic City casinos will be using popular online casino & poker platforms as the backbone of their operations namely: BwinParty, 888, Betfair, Amaya, GameSys, Ultimate Gaming and Bally Technologies.

The poker sites are accepting player registrations and giving testers a limited amount of free poker cash to players before they launch.

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Wynn have entered into a partnership deal with 888 Holdings and the All American Poker Network to offer legal online poker in the USA.

888 will offer the casino and poker software for Wynn Interactive, a similar deal which 888 have with Caesars Entertainment and the new WSOP online poker software which launched recently.

Wynn Interactive have applied for online gaming licenses to operate in Nevada as well as New Jersey with plans to offer regulated online poker in states where poker is legal.

The All American Poker Network was created by 888 Holdings earlier this year, the poker network will be exclusively for US poker players.

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