The History of Online Poker

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The history of online poker begins with the history of poker in general. The game of poker has been around for thousands of years with origins all over the world, from China to France to Persia and Spain. However, it wasn't until 1834 that the game of Poker with the name of "Poker" was officially recorded. Jonathan H. Green wrote about "the cheating game" which was played on Mississippi riverboats. This game was played with only twenty cards, but evolved into modern day poker.

Poker is a game that is coordinated by gambling laws and regulations and is mainly played in casinos and card rooms. However, it has recently become available for play in online poker rooms. The introduction of poker to the Internet has increased the popularity of the game a huge amount, but it didn't start out so simply.

The history of online poker began in 1998, when the first online poker room was opened. Planetpoker.com was the first website in the history of online poker and as the first it had many obstacles to overcome. One of the main problems was trust-after all they had to build peoples' trust in order to get them to play with real money on their site. They also had to work out software that would be user friendly and realistic. However, once they worked out these problems it was a smooth ride.

Seeing the success of planetpoker.com many online poker rooms followed suit and now, as the history of online poker continues there are hundreds of places available to play the game of poker online.