According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the regulated Nevadaonline poker sites hit $1 million in combined revenue in June, the first time that’s happened since the market launched last year. The number was $1.037 million in a month, to be exact.

The annual World Series of Poker took place in May, June, and July at the Rio in Las Vegas, lifting the number of potential customers in the state. The three Nevada online poker sites – the Caesars-backed WSOP.com, the Station Casinos-affiliated Ultimate Poker, and South Point-affiliated Real Gaming – only require that a player physically be located in Nevada in order to play. Thus, out-of-towners were more than welcome to fire up the virtual felts.

According to the Review-Journal, the influx of bodies proved highly beneficial for the state’s regulated online poker sites: “Caesars Interactive Entertainment said website traffic increased upward of 40% in June, when the majority of the tournament’s 65 bracelet events took place… Special promotions also drove players to WSOP.com.”

WSOP.com officials told PocketFives that the site qualified “several hundred” people for the WSOP live series in Las Vegas.

The stakes could get even higher in 2015. This year marked the first full WSOP for WSOP.com, which launched late last year in between the WSOP and the November Nine. One analyst told the Review-Journal, “I expect Caesars Interactive likely learned quite a bit during this past month in terms of how to effectively cross-market, drive new player traffic, online-offline tournaments, etc… We expect the incremental impact to be even bigger next year.”

According to PokerScout, WSOP.com carries a seven-day running average of 100 real money ring game players in Nevada, about 25% less than its counterpart in New Jersey. The next busiest site in Nevada, Ultimate Poker, has an average of 60 cash game players. Therefore, WSOP.com owns about two-thirds of the cash game market in Nevada.

There has been a considerable amount of discussion recently about the pending compact between Delaware and Nevada, which would require a common backend or brand in order to take effect.

All three of Delaware’s online gambling sites use 888‘s software, but 888 does not have an established brand in Nevada. To solve that problem, late last week, Nevada officials approved a plan that would allow WSOP.com to network with a forthcoming 888-powered Treasure Island site. The Treasure Island site and WSOP.com would then compact with Delaware’s player pool.

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