Guys – DUH! 
I reread the release, I kep wondering how uniques got in all the replies and I also got some PMs – I am correcting the mistake – it’s HITS and not Visits. Thanks for being persistent, CAPpers. I can still correct the press release. 
And FYI it’s 65.45 Hits/Visit and 32.1 Pages/Visit. ( people spend time poking around) The interesting thing about it is that 91.1 % of visits (yes, visits) are from bookmarks and address, only 3 % are from search engines, and the rest is from other sites.
After ruling divine in google with hundreds of #1 spots that never budged, about a year ago google decided to banish us to google hell, and I never figured out why. Just about at the exact same time yahoo decided they loved us. There isn’t all that much traffic from yahoo compared to google, but it’s enough to sustain growth and infuse enough new visitors to keep us moving right along.
You really can’t compare message boards with portals, message boards have a naturally high return visit rate. A good message board also has a lot of viral promotion, people telling people.
Gamesandcasino is unusual in that it has the stats and viral promotion resembling a message board more so than a portal.
Believe it or not, I am kinda happy that we went to google hell. There is life after google for a quality site. Not to say that life with google wouldn’t be even better, but to me relative independence from search engines makes for a much more solid foundation to work from. I am not nearly as stressed about things since this happened. I feel a lot safer now. I always thought without google there would be no life for me online.
Re. statistics from google, Alexa, quantcast, and all the others, they interestingly all dropped like a bomb when google sent us to hell. You can see it in alexa long charts. They seem to all be somehow connected to google exposure. I have no idea how they get their info, but apparently that is a big part of it.
Be that as it may, I have to apologize for the error in the press release and thank everyone for waking me up to it!