Playing Internet Poker Again

This blog has been launched to help people learn how to play Internet Poker Again. A few years ago it used to be very easy to play online poker and everyone was doing it. Currently it is not hard to play for real but it is quite different then it was in the beginning.

In 2002 an amateur won $2.5 Million in the $10,000 WSOP Main Event and the online poker craze followed. Since then the prize money has exploded and first prized in 2008 will be $9.2 Million.

In late 2006 you could find numerous tables on multiple sites. There were also a few different online payment processors to help you deposit and withdraw money. In October 2006 this changed quickly with the passage and signing of the Safe Ports Act. Attached in that bill was the Internet Gambling Enforcement Act 2006 (H.R. 4411). Effectively, American financial institutions are banned from processing any transaction with an online gambling operator.

This caused a chain reaction of events, including poker sites disabling access to American customers, and payment processors doing the same. Internet poker went from a huge craze to a fraction of it previous size very quickly. Meanwhile the WSOP Main Event keeps growing demonstrating that interest in poker is still there.

Even before this legislation passed, I had greatly reduced my online poker playing time, and I was never able to get started again until recently. When I started, I had to figure out things like how to deposit money. Fortunately the players still have the same skill level as they did before so I went back to winning and had to figure out how to withdraw as well.

In the next few posts I want to share that information with you. Together we can help build the online poker craze again.