GG Poker Network: How Asian is it?

GG Poker Network: ratio of players from different countries

Since the GG Poker Network client displays country flags according to the players' IP addresses, we can check the number of players connect from different regions. To do this, we will first determine which countries can be considered "Asians." It's important to note that the poker approach will be slightly different from the geographical one.

We will consider Asia only Southeast Asian countries: China, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and others. Other regions will be as follows:

• Middle East: Israel, Turkey;
• Europe: Germany, Slovenia, Hungary, United Kingdom;
• Russia and former USSR (except the Baltic States): Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Asian republics such Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan;
• America (Canada, Argentina, Brazil), and Australia.

We gathered data on the main formats of cash games (NLH, PLO, fast-fold poker) in European time so that you can trace the dynamics in changing the participation of individual regions during the day on GG Poker Network. 

12:00

Region/Format	NLH	PLO	R&C
Asia	120	89	88
Middle East	16	26	19
Europe	32	39	141
Former USSR	81	23	166
America and Australia	16	13	3

15:00

Region/Format	NLH	PLO	R&C
Asia	91	130	120
Middle East	27	25	19
Europe	109	53	179
Former USSR	105	46	168
America and Australia	2	4	25

18:00

Region/Format	NLH	PLO	R&C
Asia	151	132	145
Middle East	29	48	33
Europe	131	114	193
Former USSR	92	38	191
America and Australia	7	10	42

21:00

Region/Format	NLH	PLO	R&C
Asia	113	77	103
Middle East	44	47	39
Europe	89	62	191
Former USSR	122	56	228
America and Australia	15	18	49

00:00

Region/Format	NLH	PLO	R&C
Asia	50	51	65
Middle East	43	39	44
Europe	103	94	229
Former USSR	93	44	171
America and Australia	11	19	56

It is worth mentioning that for some time a group of players from a particular country dominated strongly (>50%) the connections of an entire region:

• Asia — China;
• Middle East — Israel;
• Former USSR — Russia.

What conclusions can be drawn from the traffic data?

For a long time, GG Poker Network can no longer be called an Asian network; the players from this region belong to one of three roughly equal groups, which account for the vast majority of cash game traffic: former USSR and Europe;

• The peak in the number of players from Southeast Asia countries falls at noon (the best time to play against them) or in the early evening (European time);
• The most "non-Asian" game is fast-fold poker;
• GG Poker Network is becoming one of the main sites to play online poker from Israel, which has always preferred Omaha tables;
• The only region where GG Poker network can increase its presence is in America; so far, players from this region can only be seen at fast-fold poker tables;
• After China, Russia is the country with the most players on the GG Poker Network.

Despite the expansion of the networks, players from Asia (mainly China) remain the main asset of the GG Poker network; this can be evidenced with the launch of special formats (6+ Hold'em) and tournaments played in Yuans.

In 2020, we can expect an increase in the share of players from the western region on GG Poker skins, while the network continues to develop in Asia.

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