A+ for Traffic
When looking for the best US poker sites, nothing should be more important to you than traffic. If one site has particularly high traffic, then you can expect a lot from it, but high traffic is also awesome for one other reason. The higher the total number of players, the more bad players there are amongst them, and we all know bad players are where the money is. As I have said in previous entries, PokerStars is a top notch choice because they have the traffic situation well under control. It has the best volume in internet poker, peaking at over a quarter of a million users.

No day of the week is better than Sunday to take advantage of a PokerStars download. PokerStars hosts tournaments that shouldn't be missed on Sunday, such as the Sunday Million, which draw crowds of poker players to the site. The tables are always thriving with tournament players, sometimes well over 150,000 at a time. The traffic that these events bring to the site also entices ring game players to the tables, so even if you prefer getting PokerStars rakeback from cash games, Sundays will still feature one of your biggest days.

If the guaranteed prize pools on Sundays are all you're interested in, then you already know when you're going to be playing each week. If you want to find the juiciest cash games around, on the other hand, you should plan your schedule around the traffic. PokerStars enjoys a boost in traffic each day at 2pm ET, which is sustained right through until 10pm ET. This trend seems to hold true for most days. As with the other US friendly poker sites, though, weekday traffic lessens slightly earlier than weekend traffic.

The vast majority of players on PokerStars.com play mainly tournaments, with tournament traffic being consistently high and often reaching over 150,000 players logged on. Ring games are also never short of players, with an average of nearly 30,000 players usually found on the site and a very impressive 40,000 users during peak hours. Like all the best Mac poker sites, No Limit Texas Holdem is most players' game of choice, but the site also draws a good amount of Limit Holdem and Pot Limit Omaha traffic. The site even has enough traffic for other rarer games like Badugi.

So, tournament or cash game player, log on to PokerStars every Sunday or whichever days you have time between 2pm ET and 10pm ET. During these peak hours you are guaranteed to find that this is one of the top Texas Holdem sites around.