The Explosion in Popularity of Online Poker

The popularity of online poker in the past two years, increasing at a tremendous pace - an increase of as much as 2000%! Besides the obvious fact that poker - is an intriguing game and popular entertainment , the main reasons for this stunning growth - the flexibility and speed of the game online, which you can start at any point on the globe 24 hours a day and seven days a week .

Poker as a sport has received impressive support for the launch of the media c television show World Poker Tour in 2002, and after the online amateur player Chris Moneymaker (Chris Moneymaker) won the final of the WSOP in 2003. As the game of poker is tense spring, interest which are increasingly more players online, thanks to which events the WSOP and WPT is now broadcast weekly multi-channel TV primetime. These show, in turn, attract more players wanting to try their hand at poker. In general, online and offline poker is very conducive to mutual development. Few people remember that offline poker as a sport was in decline in 2000 (!) Year, and most casinos were forced to close their poker rooms.

Games for money online poker began to be held in 1998 on the Planet Poker, the popularity of online poker has grown slowly but steadily to the point where Paradise Poker took a dominant position in the market. Major leap came when the game entered agressinye marketing programs Pacific Poker and broadcast TV World Poker Tour event in 2002. In 2003 alone, the volume of online poker players has increased by 500 %. Due to this tremendous growth, in 2004 the total revenue in the online poker industry has made one billion U.S. dollars.

Online Poker - a very lucrative business for the already -established poker rooms, but competition in the market is also heating up. This is beneficial to the players. Online poker rooms are now spending more money on advertising and also provide players with great benefits, best bonuses and many other super- attractive promotions.

Business development of online poker has become very profitable for offline casinos, which began to rediscover poker rooms. Today, many players start to play online, and then take part in domestic tournaments and casinos around the world.

Particularly attractive to the growing number of players is the fact that any decent player can in a short time to start to compete and even outperform the best poker players in the world. This is due to the short-term luck factor. In many games, mostly experienced players win; as you have probably already seen poker - a game of skill, and the best players always win. But thanks to the information on our website you can minimize your losses quickly.