It seems like we are living in truly wondrous times – at least poker-wise. The world of virtual gaming has grown by almost scary percentages over the last three years. with thousands of online poker sites in existence and practically a dozen poker-sites-newborns are uploaded daily. Whether it’s all the celeb’s showing interest in the pokergame
or all the regular Joe’s discovering online poker – or maybe it’s a new generation
already Internet friendly
that are joining the online poker forces all around the world – we don’t know. What we do know is that this is a force to Be reckoned with.
Although we can definitely see a rise in all the Internet poker scene – there is a rise in the physical poker world too. For example – in the year 2002 a total of 631 poker players signed up for the WSOP (World Series of Poker)
a few years later in 2005 a surprising total of 5
619 poker players signed up for the WSOP. A growth that is nothing less than amazing.
How come poker became so popular? well
our not very educated guess is that there’s a slow movement from the poker games played at home to the online platform and from there to any poker-pro competition. The winner of the 2005 WSOP Joseph Hatchem came from that exact neighborhood. He was not born a poker pro
nor did he dedicate most of his life to poker – his father is no online gambling genius – he was just like you and I. A poker loving dude – who discovered he’s actually good at it. That’s the beauty of poker in a nutshell – it allows anyone to become a poker god. All you have to do is to play – and play and play – until you are good enough to play with the poker pros – and who knows maybe you’ll be the 2007 WSOP grand winner.
–
2010 World Series of Poker Day 47: Jorgensen leads
Mizrachi close behind
Leading the 78 remaining players in the race for the November Nine at the World Series of Poker on Day 7 will be Danish poker pro Theo Jorgensen. After ending Day 5 near the top of the leaderboard
the Dane was able to stay strong throughout Day 6…