On February 1st of this year Victory Poker entered the online poker industry by joining the Everleaf Gaming Network. It was one of the biggest new launches for an online poker room in recent memory. There was buzz all over poker forums about what players and affiliates could expect. The Everleaf Gaming player traffic broke record after record and the network looked as if they were on their way to explosive growth. There were even rumors that Victory Poker had bought the network. It would seem now that those were simply rumors.

About three months ago Everleaf Gaming's traffic peaked. Since then there has been a steady decline. This may be one of the reasons that Victory Poker announced this week that after only seven months on Everleaf Gaming they would be moving to the Cake Poker Network on September 1st.

Cake Poker's Network has been suffering a decline is player count as well. Within weeks of PlayersOnly and Sportsbook.com leaving the network half of their traffic vanished. While much of the traffic left with the exiting skins some of the loss can be attributed to the shrinking player base, a side effect of a shrinking network. When games start to dry up players start looking elsewhere.

It is estimated that Victory Poker could bring several hundred players to Cake Poker with a database of thousands to market their new network. This is great news for Cake Poker after a string of bad news in 2010. It is possible that the Cake Poker Network's traffic could grow by 10-20% overnight.

Existing Victory Poker rakeback players will be moved down to 33% rakeback to conform with Cake Network rules. The good news for players is that the formula will move from contributed to dealt. The bad news for affiliates is that now promotions, bonuses and deposit fees will be deducted from affiliate MGR.