With the latest developments in technology, it's no surprise that online poker has become one of the most popular games on the Internet and the number of people that play this game is growing bigger and bigger every year. But it wasn't always like this. Until the 90's, poker, a game that has been around for more than 200 years, was still played in traditional casinos.
After 1994, the new technology and the Internet allowed the appearance of online poker and this new concept revolutionized the market of online gaming. Now, you don't have to go out to enjoy your hobby, especially if it's late in the night and you're very tired after a long day of work. Besides, it doesn't have to be night to play this game. You can do it whenever you have some free time on your hands.
The first online poker website appeared on the market in 1994 and was developed by a company called Microgaming. At first, people were reluctant to invest their money in something so new and extravagant, so the game didn't start to be popular until four years later. It had an online poker room known as Planet Poker, but not so many people entered it in the first years. After 1998, the industry went through some drastic changes. In 1999, a new game called Paradise Poker entered the market and was very successful. The next year, in May 2000, Poker Spot appeared and offered for the first time an online poker tournament.
After 2004, the online poker industry boomed as more and more people started to realize that they could just as easily play the game in their own houses and win money very easily, whenever they had the time to play. New companies started to design better and more realistically looking software. Noble poker and Full Tilt Poker were introduced on the market soon after this and the online poker industry revenues skyrocketed.
As more and more people started to enjoy playing the game online, the jackpots and the stakes become higher and higher. If you want an example on how much this industry evolved in such a short period of time, Paradise Poker was bought in October 2004 by a company named Sportingbet for more than 300 million dollars. Today, we have a very large variety of different websites that host poker rooms and the services keep getting better as the technology evolves.
The online poker industry has the advantage of offering more benefits than the traditional poker games, and everything can be done from your own house in a matter of minutes. You have higher stages, a convenient way to get in an online poker room and the benefit of winning more money very easily. Online poker was to traditional poker like cellular phones were to normal old phones. Not a lot of people had the money or the status to go to a traditional casino to gamble. Now, everyone can relax and enjoy this wonderful game, an, why not, even win some extra money.
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