Delaware Poker sites will soon join with Nevada to share player pools, this is expected to increase the amount of games available with more players at the tables.

The new partnership will be a step in the right direction as the current set-up of state-by-state separation was not attracting enough players.

Nevada and Delaware governors Brian Sandoval and Jack Markell signed the deal this week to form a partnership for online poker in the two states.

Both states will still have their separate gambling laws and will only share player pools at regulated and approved online poker sites.

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It’s been a strange year for poker especially online poker with the industry turned upside down on Black Friday. Online poker traffic has decrease by 31% as a result of an unstable US market.

Not all online poker rooms suffered a loss in traffic, CarbonPoker and Merge Gaming Network experienced an increase of traffic up to 76%.

Notable Poker players for 2011 include: Erik Seidel new leader on the poker all time money list, Phil Hellmuth, Ben Lamb (Player of the Year) and Pius Heinz (2011 World Series Of Poker Main Event Champion)

Read more for the top poker articles and major event winners of Poker 2011.

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