Commenting on its poker results, a company statement said: "Poker remains a challenging vertical due to unfavorable wider market trends. Revenues [are] down 19 percent in the half compared to the same period last year, although already from a very low base." In 2012, the Playtech owned iPoker Network split into two tiers, one catering for recreational players and the other for skilled grinders. The aim was to increase the network's overall liquidity, but the plan seems to have failed and a few weeks back the iPoker Network decided to combine its poker rooms once more. Casing point, before implementing its tier-system there were 2,900 players on the network at any one time, but it is now showing 1,350 cash players over a 7-day period, currently placing it number four on PokerScout's global traffic ranking, behind PokerStars (15,500), 888poker (2,100), and Bodog (1,600).