It’s rooted in those early web days of unlimited potential and eye-searing design.
Online poker’s growth has slowed considerably, but continues today in the US and worldwideĪs with most new things, especially on the Internet, online poker history has humble beginnings that few paid attention to.The UIGEA in 2006 and Black Friday in 2011 were huge setbacks in online poker history.Party Poker dominated market share from 2002-2006, PokerStars has since.The mid-2000s saw an explosion of new sites and thousands of new players thanks to unregulated freedom.Other early sites included Paradise Poker, UltimateBet, Party Poker, and PokerStars.The first real-money games with dedicated software came in 1998 with Planet Poker.The first recorded games of poker done online took place in the mid-1990’s with text-based free games on IRC.When will I pass that up? The answer: never A feature about online poker history gives me the chance to do a cheesy Photoshop of poker mixed with meme stereotypes.
