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HISTORY OF PLAYING ONLINE POKER
2011-02-08
The games of poker played on the Internet are called as online poker. This has brought a drastic increase in the poker players in the whole world. It was stated that the revenue generated through playing online poker went from $82.7 million in 2007 to $2.4 billion in 2005. Playing poker in the usual brick and mortar casinos can be intimidating for the beginners plus many of the traditional casinos do not offer the game of poker, as it is tuff to get profits from it. The cost of running a casino room is also very high. The traditional casinos make more money by terminating poker rooms and adding more of slot machines.
It is advantageous for the casinos to let the people play online poker, as it is very cost effective. It does not take much space like in the normal casino to add another poker table in the online casinos. The online casinos also offer the clients an option to take low risks by betting less amount of money. It even provides the poker free roll tournaments, which are usually attractive for the beginners and less wealthy clients.
It can be often risky to play online poker as the online versions are mostly open to some kinds of frauds most significantly collusion between two players. But they have collusion detecting abilities that is not there in the traditional casinos. The online poker security team can look at the hand history of the cards played by any player and can easily make out where the colluding players can simply fold their ands without letting the people know about their strength of holding. The IP addresses of players are also checked by the security team on the site to prevent players of playing from the same household and from the same tables.
The first time when free online poker was played was in 1990s in the form of IRC poker. The first online poker card room was Planet poker that offered real money games. It was on January 1, 1998 when the first real money online poker game was played. The face of Planet poker was declared in October 1999 and it was author Mike Caro. The various online poker sites offer many features to attract the new players. One of them is the service of tournaments known as satellites, which gives the players the chance to enter real life poker tournaments. Chris Moneymaker got the entry to the 2003 world series of poker through one of such tournaments called as PokerStars. He brought a shock wave in the world of poker by winning the main event. The 2004 World Series got as many as three times the players that came in the year 2003. It also known that four players in the WSOP final table got their entry through an online card room. Greg Raymer like Chris Moneymaker won his entry at the PokerStars online card room.
To play online poker can be different from the traditional poker because of the difference in legal perspective. However many of the issues remain the same. Online poker is legal and is played in many nations in and around Caribbean Sea and most importantly United Kingdom. In the US, the North Dakota House of Representatives passed a bill to legalize online poker in the nation in February 2005. The requirements of the legalization of poker were that the online poker operations must testify themselves in front of the state by physically locating their operations.
It is not at all difficult to play online poker as the software for its support is available on the Internet. Most of the online poker service providers give incentives to the players in the form of bonuses. These bonuses are given after a certain number of raked hands are played. Some of the card rooms even have VIP rewards for their regular players. So we see how online poker is as great as real poker.
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CASINO AND POKER ROOM LAUNCH FROM DOMGAME
2010-11-11
New casino and poker room targets players in central and eastern Europe
Domgame, operated by Entraction Operation Ltd, has launched an online casino and poker room that caters to Russian, Polish and soon Hungarian players.
The casino features games from Net Entertainment; hosts weekly blackjack, slots and roulette tournaments; and offers players a progressive jackpot pool while the poker room, part of the Entraction Network, hosts tournaments including online qualifiers for the European Masters of Poker.
GERMAN VICTORY IN ENGLISH POKER OPEN
2010-09-16
Quoss takes GBP220 650 home to Germany
The English Poker Open tournament concluded in victory for German player Fabian Quoss this week, rewarding him with a first prize of GBP220 650 and the George Trophy.
Quoss beat a total of 192 entrants in the NLHE event, which carried a stiff GBP3 750 buy-in and was played out at the Palm Beach Casino in Mayfair, London.
Quoss faced a final table that comprised Sebastian Crul, Mathew Frankland, Felipe Ramos, Andrew Brennan, Brent Lehring, Mark Norman, Salman Behbehani and Stephen Chimelski after three days of tough action to thin out the big entry field.
Big names that fell by the wayside included Phil Laak, Thorston Schafer and Liv Boeree
The game reached a climax when the composition of the heads up was decided by the elimination of third placed Mathew Frankland. The resulting confrontation between Quoss and Sebastian Crul was brief but exciting, with the German dominating the game to leave Crul with the runner up's prize of GBP129 000.
$3k HORSE - Ivey Wins It All
2010-07-06
The event number 37 at 2010 WSOP was the $3,000 buy-in HORSE. The event commenced on 19th June, 2010, and the total pool prize was about $1,319,280, and Ivey won the bracelet with handsome prize money of $329,840.
Now, let us take a closer look at the final players, the main hands placed, the prize money involved, and the event highlights.
The $3k HORSE started with 25 outstanding players involving several preceding bracelet winners, cutting down to sixteen players, and finally the heads-up game between Phil Ivey and Bill Chen.
Phil Ivey looked great in the heads-up game, full of confidence and control. He never took the game easy and he gave a hard fight to several tough opponents in the line-up.
Final players
The final players for the event were Phil Ivey and Bill Chen, and Phil Ivey bagged the event title, the admired WSOP bracelet, and good deal of cash. You don’t really expect the likes of Phil Ivey to win the event title against Bill Chen, who fought his way to the very end.
Ivey had got the momentum going from the beginning of the tournament, and he finally ended up winning the $3k HORSE title.
Ivey entered the heads-up with the fall up against the finest technical exemplars in the game of poker. He ran over his final opponent Bill Chen. Bill Chen certainly had not missed a betting value by picking pot after the pot.
Bill Chen's supporters cheered him to get his hands on the victory, but it was Phil Ivey's day, who won whopping prize money of $329,840 and the runner up Bill Chen had to go home with $203,802, and second place finish.
Main Cards
The betting went all the way through 5th street. Chen had a strong heads up in A-2-5-6-7 and Ivey had A-2-3-5-6 a superior hand compared to Chen. Bill Chen was bit unlucky and Phil Ivey finished the game in style hitting four in order to complete nuts on river.
Bill Chen had the early advantage over his 3rd and 4th opponent with the Aldridge on the J♥ T♦ 2♥ board and with good combination of J♠ 9♣ 8♥ 6♠ to end as top pair and open-ender. But, it was not enough to outsmart Phil Ivey who won the bracelet and the prize money of $329,840
Final Winner- Phil Ivey
After the dust settled, it was Phil Ivey who came out as the winner of the #37 event- $3k horse comfortably over his opponent Bill Chen. This is one of the master class performances by Phil Ivey.
Phil Ivey played the game consistently, all the way throughout the tournament. He went on to face great pins in order to understand the degree of the game. Phil Ivey won his eighth bracelet and one can expect a lot more from this promising poker star.
Ivey revealed that "I never doubt myself," and he collected the plaudits and the bracelet from an enthusiastic rail.
Summary
In a heated battle involving 5 different games of Omaha-8, holdem, stud, razz, and stud-8, that involved 478 players and a $1,319,280 prize pool, Phil came out triumphant at last, and the final hands were -
Chen: A-5-2-7-6-7-10
Ivey: 3-5-A-6-2-7-4
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TRIBAL GAMBLING AND ONLINE POKER (Update)
2010-01-19
CNIGA chairman calls for unity as tribes discuss the implications of legalised online poker in California
The 15th annual 15th annual Western Indian Gaming Conference of Californian Indian gambling operators (see previous InfoPowa report) kicked off this week with Daniel Tucker, the chairman of the California Nations Indian Gaming Association, urging unity.
The Desert Sun reports that a smaller than usual gathering began discussions on one of the key items on the agenda - the consequences of legalised online poker in California.
The tribes have been polarised since last year, when the Morongo Band of Mission Indians and four Californian card rooms formed an alliance to try to get exclusive legislation introduced legalising Internet poker in the state.
Tucker said the goal of the conference was to build consensus on Internet poker issues, saying the federal push to legalise online gambling in general could threaten the economic livelihoods that the tribes have worked to build over the last 25 years.
"Your involvement is essential,'' he told delegates.
Consensus building began in earnest, prompting former state Sen. Jim Battin to predict an Internet poker bill could be put before California lawmakers sometime this (2010) year.
“It will only work if there’s one front,’’ he said.
Morongo chairman Robert Martin explained why his band had taken the initiative last year. The state-wide effort began as a way to derail a move made last fall when Congress threatened to tack a piece of “damaging Internet poker legislation” onto the federal health care bill, sensing it was “steaming ahead like a greased locomotive.”
With federal lawmakers acting as if they'd "found a $40 billion pot of gold" for the federal treasurer, Martin said the Morongo felt rapid action was needed to keep Congress from robbing tribes of their ability to successfully compete in the online marketplace.
"Steps had to be taken to protect financial interests against erosion from off-shore companies and Las Vegas corporations,’’ Martin said, adding that the threat has not gone away.
"We rushed to Congress to beat back a bill that would have restricted our participation,'' Martin said. "That is why we were simultaneously working in Sacramento on our own California Internet poker legislation."
The Desert Sun reports that despite Martin's explanation, questions loomed large over exclusivity protections for tribes, compact protections, impacts to existing casinos and the relationship struck with California card rooms.
Martin said that the Morongo’s postponement of their initiative to legalise online poker has enabled everyone to "step back to get better acquainted with the issues."
It’s also been flagged as a potential budget bail-out, one delegate commented. “With the budget deficit being what it is, this bill holds potential to advance if revenue sharing strings are attached," he said.
As InfoPowa went to press the discussion was continuing, with some off topic debate on whether the media should be excluded from the deliberations, a suggestion made by the head of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians tribal council.