Online Poker History

Come to think of it, the Online Poker can still be considered as something new considering the fact it really started during the year 1998, but just boomed during the year 2002. The very first online room for Poker that was established is Planet Poker and it was released during the same year that online Poker was born. After this room, Paradise Poker came next on the list and it was released in 1999; in fairness to this particular poker room, it is still considered as one of the best rooms today. This is probably because of the fact that it has a really great software at its helm, numerous advertising campaigns, a wide range of audience ,these factors really helped in bringing the online Poker game to a higher level. When the year 2001 came, other rooms were developed and they started to be used by other people as well; these rooms are Poker Stars, UB and Party Poker.

It was quite sudden how the trend of online poker gaming started to become popular during 2003 when actual poker games started to air in the different television channels in the United States. For instance, World Poker Tour was first shown on Travel Channel in the month of March during 2003. When the show got the highest rating in the history of Travel Channel it was already confirmed that Poker is really in demand. As a matter of fact, even World Series of Poker got a lot of coverage from one of the most popular sports channel: ESPN.

The popularity of this game was proved again through an event during 2003 at the main event of World Series of Poker called No Limit Hold that produced the highest turnout in history and the most surprising part is that the internet contributed to the historical turnout of the even. However, that record was immediately broken in World Series of Poker during 2004 because the players reached a total of 2,600; these players played for the total pot money amounting to 5 million dollars.



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