The world of online poker as we knew it during the ‘boom’ of the mid-2000s has changed beyond recognition, and that’s something many within the poker industry are proud of as the game has sought to move with the times and remain relevant.
It seems like a lifetime since accountant, Chris Moneymaker scooped the World Series of Poker Main Event jackpot in 2003, inspiring a generation of new poker players to play online and in brick and mortar casinos. Fast forward well over a decade and the poker industry is working hard to educate poker enthusiasts in new ways. The poker economy has had to contend with the abandonment of the US poker market by all of the leading brands, which saw millions of amateur and professional poker players in the States left without an online network to play on.
