A few days ago the American authorities froze $33 million US dollars in transactions from American poker sites. PokerStars traffic went down with 7% because of this when Full Tilt and Cake Poker's traffic increased instead.
The player traffic at PokerStars decreased with 7% during June due to the trouble with American authorities who froze all transactions from American poker sites. How much money and players PokerStars has lost because of this, we can only speculate in right now.
PokerStars problems were good for some sites
Many poker sites have increased their traffic thanks to the problems PokerStars has had. For example the traffic at Full tilt and Cake Poker has increased with around 3% each.
Full Tilt solved the problem fast and increased their traffic
Even though Full Tilt's players also were affected by the frozen money transactions, Full Tilt were quite well prepared for something like this to occur and they quickly found new payment methods so their players could continue transferring money.
