Bradley Chalupski made his first deposit onto an online poker site in 2009 and has been paying rake and following the poker scene ever since. He graduated from the Seton Hall School of Law with a J.D. in 2010.
It wasn’t that long ago that the poker game of choice in rooms across the nation was mostly 7-card Stud High. And even if Hold’em was known to players, it was treated more as an object of reverence than as a game to be played on a daily basis.
What happened? What’s really stopping online poker in the United States? And more importantly, is there any chance that something will change in the future and launch that next poker boom that we are all hoping for?
Spoiler alert: while it may suck to have these things happen to you, it can be equally as hilarious to watch them happen to someone else.
The House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has passed an online gambling regulation bill - HB 2150 - that will be sent to the state’s Senate for approval.
The UK is a hotbed for online poker - not only does it host one of the world’s most enthusiastic players pools, it’s also home to a lot of the world’s leading gaming regulators. So what will it mean for poker players now that the UK has decided to leave?
Nothing is quite as intriguing as watching someone do something ridiculous, all in the name of action and money.
Boasting a player base that has millions of daily users, Zynga Poker is the world’s largest online poker room. Since the play-money only site launched in 2007, approximately 350 million players have sat down at its virtual felt.
Attention spans in the internet age are notoriously fleeting, and it seemed as though poker was destined to be nothing more than a fad that was replaced by the next big thing.
Jasmeet Kaur only learned about the arrangement after her husband’s creditors began to harass her as they looked to “collect” – something that can only be described as a breathtaking level of audacity.
No other film captures that degen lifestyle many of us fantasize about in quite the same way. And of course, in many ways, Rounders is just that - a fantasy.
In Q1 of 2016, Stars’ Revenue from poker games was 11% lower than during the first quarter of 2015. Amaya attributed some of this change to currency exchange rate fluctuations.
The silent hope was that the re-launch would bring the shift that we have all been waiting for in a post-Black Friday world. PokerStars would put online poker back on the map in the United States.
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