I decided tonight to take a look at how it's going for the US legalized poker market.

Quick summary:





The details:

There are 5 states where online poker is legal:
Nevada: WSOP.com only (shares player pool with NJ/DE)
Delaware: WSOP.com only (shares player pool with NV/NJ)
New Jersey: WSOP.com (shares player pool with NV/DE), Pokerstars NJ, PartyPoker NJ
Pennsylvania: Pokerstars PA only
Michigan: Pokerstars MI, BetMGM MI

Here's how each are doing, listen by average/peak in number of cash players, followed by market population:
Pokerstars MI: 425/1011 (10m population)
Pokerstars PA: 350/879 (13m population)
WSOP.com (all): 220/416 (13m population)
PartyPoker NJ: 85/180 (9m population)
Pokerstars NJ: 80/284 (9m populaiton)
BetMGM MI: 32/129 (10m population)


BetMGM is new, but so far it's landed with a complete thud.

But even the best of the bunch -- Pokerstars Michigan -- is only averaging 425 players, and rarely hits over 1000.

We really need a big state to enter the legalized online poker market.

California has 40 million people, Texas has 29 million, Florida has 21.5 million, and New York has 20 million. If these four states got on board, that would be 110 million more people into the overall legalized player pool, which is currently at just 36 million, and no more than 13m in any single market.