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The history of online poker is relatively brief compared to the history of the game itself, but already, online poker has changed the face of the game.

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Poker was not all that well known 12 years ago, when the first small rooms began to offer a basic playing site online. In the present day, poker is a huge industry online, with thousands upon thousands of players logging into poker rooms every day. Not long after the first room opened online, PartyPoker opened it’s doors to players. They quickly became the leading competitor, and set about outstripping their rivals in much of what was offered. To this day, PartyPoker remains a great poker room, but it has to be said that bigger names have overtaken them in terms of renown.

The past decade has seen online poker rooms opening up one after another, to the point where it could now be argued that the industry has become somewhat flooded with online operators. Even so, the demand for poker still appears to be expanding, along with the games popularity, and so a mass of online poker room closures is very unlikely.

Instead, many poker rooms are thriving, and offering their own answer to the WSOP in the ‘WCOOP’ series, and have continually offered bigger and better tournaments over the past few years. The history of online poker will be an interesting one as it has brought the game to the masses, in such a way to alter the face of the game forever. Let us hope that despite the success of the online game, it never completely eclipses the need for the live game.