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April 15th, 2011 was a dark day for online poker players in America, for more reasons than one. Yes, American players lost access to their player accounts and their favorite poker rooms, but the greater impact has been on Internet poker resources. Poker sites and forums are suffering. Traffic is low, content is old, the sites themselves stale, and some even hosting dead links.
In light of the changes brought about by Black Friday, OnlinePokerRealMoney.com plans to provide an oasis of unique and up-to-the-minute information for all things online poker related.
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After Black Friday, sensible poker players care about which methods of depositing and withdrawing funds are safe and secure. If you’re an online poker player with money tied up because of a frozen bank account, then you understand why such things matter more than anyone. Our readers are responsible adults. They value their freedom. They want to make sensible decisions about their funding choices, and the information on this site is meant to help them make those decisions.
The legal situation related to Internet poker isn’t just changing in the United States, but things are changing rapidly in the USA. Some states are legalizing Internet poker. The cases against Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars are working their ways through the court system. Lobbying efforts continue. OPRM promises to keep you up to date on those legal challenges and changes. If you need to know more on legal poker rooms for US players, then visit www.legaluspokersites.com
But OnlinePokerRealMoney.com doesn’t limit itself to just reporting on United States poker law. You’ll also find news and information about changes in the laws in other countries as they relate to online poker. The world has over 200 different countries, each of which offers unique legal situations related to cash-based card games and gambling. Changes in those legal situations are newsworthy, and you can count on our brand to bring you the latest and most accurate information.
OnlinePokerRealMoney.com is exactly what the name says. We want casual visitors to know who we are and what we do right from the start. Rather than make money sending you to poker sites that pay us to advertise for them, we want to build up our own loyal team of poker fans by connecting them to sites we trust, sites that we play at, and sites that are unlikely to owe them money due to being shut down.
Let our poker wisdom be your poker wisdom. How hard is it to find unbiased details on poker online? It’s much too difficult, and this leads to much chin-scratching and gnashing of teeth among poker players. Months of frustration have left poker players the world around with a rash and a bad taste in their mouths toward real money online poker play.
Look to OPRM.com for reviews of the best online poker sites where you can play poker online with real money. Soon, we’ll have lists and information on legitimate poker sites, what countries do and don’t restrict play at those sites, the best promotional and bonus deals, and everything else a poker player who wants to spend real cash could want to know.
For an idea of what the future of online poker worldwide could look like, look at what is happening in Nevada. It looks like online poker is going to be fully regulated within that state’s borders. According to gaming insiders in Nevada, online casino gambling will be next. Wagers on sports and horse racing can’t be far behind either.
The goal of these regulations is to ban offshore poker sites and move online gaming in-country or in-state so that local governments can benefit from tax revenue.
Other countries and territories are along for the ride. Italy is moving towards regulated online gaming and poker nationwide, with Germany and Spain close behind.
Can the United States pull off something similar? We at OnlinePokerRealMoney think so.
There is talk of intra-state regulation all over the place, including in Washington, DC where real progress has been made toward full regulation of online gaming. The worldwide economic downturn is actually good news for online poker fans who want to play the game they love with their hard-earned cash - governments need income, and poker players need a place to practice the sport they’ve grown good at.
The way it is now, all gambling revenue from American players is leaving the country untouched. A handful of American-friendly poker sites still operate offshore to counter the UIGEA law passed 5 years ago. That UIGEA legislation was tucked inside a can’t-fail anti-terrorism law that had far more to do with safe industry in the post-9/11 world than online gaming.
What will it take to counter-act such a nasty law?
Time will tell. Hopefully, it will look something like what’s going on at the state level across the USA.
What will happen to American poker players without more regulation? They will eventually be squeezed out of the market entirely. Some players, those who make a career of playing poker online with real money, will be forced to leave the country altogether, a prospect the American government can’t possibly be excited about.
OnlinePokerRealMoney.com will be a clearinghouse for all things online poker: news, reviews, details, inside information, and advice on playing the game we love to play.
OnlinePokerRealMoney.com will host material from guest writers, people who have paid their dues in the online poker world, maintained player accounts through the darkness of Black Friday, and those poker pros who want to help other gamblers find legitimate action.
OnlinePokerRealMoney.com will not grow stale. Too many sites are live right now studded with outdated information, dead links, and promotional offers that have long since fallen by the wayside.
OnlinePokerRealMoney.com will give us the opportunity to share what we know with our online poker family.
We are just a few days away from 2020, and it's time to summarize the 2019 results of the online poker industry. Although online poker is still considered in critical condition, many events occurred this year, and several trends were defined that led us to think that poker is well-alive around the world.
Throughout its entire history, the online poker industry has always developed following some fundamental principles:
In 2019 we could add the massive development of the real money poker apps market and record-breaking MTT events played on some sites.
If you visit our website regularly, you'll find that almost all our content is aimed to dissect the above points and familiarize players with the market dynamics. So, what events we highlight in 2019?
In 2019 we were forced to stop our cooperation with PokerStars, which for many years has been the only existing poker room for many players. In short, we did not agree to change our policy regarding other poker rooms offered on our site to continue our partnership with PokerStars.
Of course, Stars remains as the largest online poker room in terms of traffic, and any development related to them was interesting to our readers and deeply impacts the overall gaming industry:
Once upon a time, PokerStars was considered not only the largest online poker room but also the best one. Unfortunately, over time, it has increasingly become a site for recreative players with almost no interest for regular players, especially when considering promotions and new formats.
To help our grinders look for a new home, we made benchmarks of PokerStars with its main competitors for the three most important formats of the moment: 6-max, fast-fold poker, and Spin & Go.
GGPoker Network consolidated its position as a market leader in 2019; in fact, Good Game was the only public and top network that was able to significantly increase its players' share and even beat the record set last year!
According to PokerScout, precisely one year ago, GGPoker Network boosted 1,100 connections on average, and now the number is 1,500, a growth of 36%!
Unlike PokerStars, GGPoker Network reached our headlines thanks to its promotions that guarantee more money every month (for January 2020, the network already announced promotions for over $700,000).
Only two news was similar to PokerStars and GG Poker Network:
We also covered some unique events related to the Good Game Poker Network in 2019:
And in preparation for the incursion into new markets (most likely France and Spain), GGPoker Network left 13 countries in November 2019.
In 2019 Rob Yong became the public face of partypoker. The British businessman owner of Dusk Till Dawn Casino was appointed as partypoker partner, and he made public a roadmap with partypoker plans to improve the players' experience.
Changing the format of hand histories and banning HUDs and support software can be considered as the main event that occurred at partypoker in 2019. On June 17th the new era started and in the first month the traffic drop almost 10%, but in the following months, it recovered slightly.
In November, Yong himself confirmed that hand histories would be available for download and even contacted software developers to release updates and make compatible tracking software to perform after-session reviews.
In our blog, partypoker was highly commented due to different news:
For 2020 we can expect many changes with the migration of two iPoker skins to the partypoker network: Coral and Ladbrokes.
We recently shared a complete overview of the Winning Poker Network development in 2019, so we invite you to read our article.
In short, WPN smashed records with massive tournaments, and as Phil Nagy told us, poker is only good when it's big, and surely, Winning is preparing for a #good4poker 2020.
The fate of iPoker in 2020 is deeply linked with the MPN closure. We invite you to read our detailed analysis in this article.
In terms of traffic, in 2019, iPoker lost almost 8% of players.
Out of the sight of PokerScout, the poker app industry developed highly in 2019 (we will talk about the Chinese market later). Regarding real money poker apps, we highlight:
Right now, we offer access to almost 40 clubs in three poker apps. At the end of 2019, the traffic in these applications is as follows:
Stakes | Tables |
NL10$-60$ | 125 |
NL70$-150$ | 73 |
NL175$-250$ | 41 |
NL300$-500$ | 36 |
NL600$-1K$ | 18 |
NL1,5K-5K | 8 |
PLO10$-60$ | 97 |
PLO70$-150$ | 66 |
PLO175$-250$ | 39 |
PLO300$-500$ | 27 |
PLO600$-1K$ | 23 |
PLO1,5K-5K | 11 |
In 2019 we witnessed the rise and fall of PokerMaster, the undisputable leader, after the Chinese authorities closed about 300 bank accounts linked to club owners; this created a hostile environment that led to PokerKing Asia to expulse overseas players and Red Dragon Poker to close for a while, although the last one re-opened a few months ago.
But, China is still a profitable market with incredibly soft games, and new sites like PokerTime were introduced into the market.
Of course, even in an article as extensive as this one, we have not been able to cover all relevant topics related to online poker in 2019. Still, it gives a general idea of the state of the industry and what we can expect in 2020. Our blog will cover all the relevant news as usual!
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