Online poker has now drastically grown because of the comfort it offer when playing. Players need not to travel just to play their favorite poker game. With just a simple click of their mouse, they are already in the poker room of their choice and can instantly start to play.

Because of online poker, more and more people are now into online poker gaming and it causes for a dramatic increase of poker players worldwide. According to the Christiansen capital Advisors, online pokers revenues grew from $82.7 million in 2001 to $2.4 billion in 2005 with in between year’s revenue of $1.4 billion in 2004.

Running a traditional poker room is a lot expensive compared to an online one. With an online poker room, adding an addition poker table need not a lot of space unlike in a brick and mortar poker room. In addition, online poker room are offering as low strakes as 2 cents and sometime they offer poker free roll tournaments that attracts many beginners to join in.

Online poker rooms are prone to various types of fraud, especially the thing called collusion between players. However, online poker rooms have collusion detection abilities, which is not available with brick and mortar casinos.

Online casino started in the form of IRC poker during the late 1990s, and it was Planet Poker who was the first online card room to offer real money games and was dealt on January 1, 1998.

Major online poker sites offer various feature to attract new players, which includes tournaments called satellites wherein winners got the chance to enter into the real-life poker tournaments. Chris Moneymaker was known for his win to the 2003 World Series of Poker and this win was through the tournaments offered by Poker Stars. His win of the main event causes some shock in the poker world. The 2004 WSOP tournament players became three times more than in 2003.

When it comes to legality, online poker is legal and is regulated in many countries that includes several countries and out of the Caribbean Sea and most especially those countries in the UK. The North Dakota house of representatives in the United States has passed a bill in February of 2005 to legalize and regulate online poker.

In the world of online poker, famous players are developed each day. Doyle Brunson is just one of them and is now one of the legends in the world of online poker.