While PokerStars continues uncontested as the world's largest online poker network, the iPoker Network has managed to regain second place, new numbers from PokerScout reveal.

The analysis from independent tracking site PokerScout is based on cash game traffic at peak hours from the individual networks.

PokerStars has been dominating the global market for years already, and increased its numbers further by 2.5 percent over the last week, the latest update reveals.

Meanwhile, PartyPoker dropped from second place after spending eight weeks as number two, only to see the iPoker Network take over.

The two networks have been going neck-to-neck as the world's third-largest poker network up until Black Friday when Full Tilt Poker was eliminated from the equation, making the race for second place instead.

iPoker took the spot in August, then lost in October to PartyPoker, but is now back as the world's second largest poker network.

Seen over the course of the last year, overall poker traffic decreased by 29%, PokerScout says, with the shutdown of Full Tilt Poker and the CEREUS Network as the main explanation for the decline.

However, the Entraction Network has also seen numbers dwindle by 43% as well as International Poker Network traffic has decreased 34%, adding to the drop altogether.

The biggest gainers in year-over-year traffic numbers, in turn, are 888poker, up 78%, the Merge Network, up 71%, and Bodog, up 61%.