Besides the massive flood of new players in 2003-2006, the first poker networks like Ongame, Microgaming Poker Network aka Prima & Cryptologic were founded. The history of online poker would probably be much different if Chris Moneymaker didn’t win the ME in 2003. Celebrities saw the opportunity to become ambassadors of online poker sitesand the perfect storm was ready. There was no intervention from the US government for easy deposits and withdrawals at USA friendly poker sites at this time. The dream of making a name for oneself by playing poker tournaments was born. Player traffic at online poker rooms saw a big spike and player pools were filled with people who wanted to follow in Moneymaker’s footsteps. The result of the World Series of Poker title won by Moneymaker? He walked home with $2.5 million in prize money and internet poker boomed in a big way. Chris Moneymaker was the first WSOP champion to win a bracelet after qualifying online.Īll the Main Event action was aired on ESPN and millions of viewers saw Chris fight his way to the win against several professional poker players. This is exactly what happened when an accountant from Tennessee won a satellite to qualify for the WSOP $10k ME in 2003. Imagine a scenario where anybody could take on the top poker professionals by qualifying through a satellite tournament to the World Series of Poker Main Event and taking it down, just after televised poker with visible hole cards became a thing. 2017-2021 Mobile poker apps become popular and online games start to move into smaller private poker clubs.2014 PokerStars becomes the largest publicly traded company in the online poker industry with a takeover bid of $4.9 billion.2012 First state-regulated online poker games offered in Nevada & Delaware.2011 Black Friday events occur with domains of Absolute Poker, Full Tilt Poker, and PokerStars seized by the FBI.2009 The largest cash game pot in online poker history so far is played on Full Tilt Poker by Viktor Blom and Patrik Antonius.2006 UIGEA is put in place in the United States, US-facing operations closed down by Party Poker, PacificPoker & Bwin.2002-2006 Party Poker dominates the market, amount of new online poker rooms explodes.1991-2001 Launches of the early online poker sites Paradise Poker, UltimateBet, PartyPoker & PokerStars.
1998 Planet Poker offers first internet poker for real money.1994 The first poker game between humans is is played with text-based IRC-Poker.Important milestones in online poker history include: With the first two decades, there have been plenty of ups and downs in the poker industry, both in popularity as well as scandals. With that in mind, internet poker has been around for a relatively short time. Different formats of live poker have existed for around two centuries.
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