When trying to decide on the best US poker sites, one of the most important things to consider is traffic. Clearly if there are a lot of players in a poker room, then it must have something going for it, but good traffic is also awesome for a further reason. The higher the total number of players, the more bad players there are amongst them and, let's face it, we all love fish. Like I've discussed in previous articles, PokerStars is a top notch pick because they have a fantastic player base. It offers the largest player pool around, at times reaching over 250,000 players logged on.

No day of the week is better than Sunday to take advantage of your PokerStars download. PokerStars.com holds tournaments with some truly excellent guaranteed prize pools on Sunday, such as the Sunday Million, which get huge quantities of players logging onto the site. There are always plenty of tournament players, sometimes well over 150,000 at a time. The volume of these tournaments also entices ring game players to the tables, so even if you prefer to receive PokerStars rakeback from cash games, Sundays will still feature among your busiest days.

If the guaranteed prize pools on Sundays are all you're interested in, then it's always clear what times you'll be playing. If you're trying to play the softest ring games possible, though, you need to know at what times to play. PokerStars tends to experience a marked increase 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, however, weekday traffic lessens slightly earlier than weekend traffic.

The bulk 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 nearly 30,000 players on average to be found on the site and that number rising higher than 40,000 at peak times. Like all the best Mac poker sites, No Limit Texas Holdem is most players' game of choice, but the site also has a solid amount of Limit Holdem and Pot Limit Omaha traffic. The site even attracts enough players for rarer games such as Razz and Draw.

Whether you prefer tournaments or ring games, log on to PokerStars.com every Sunday or whichever days you have time between 2pm ET and 10pm ET. In these time slots you shouldn't have trouble finding that this is one of the top Texas Holdem sites on the Internet.