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There have been several crucial steps taken in the past few months that suggest online poker may be removed from the ‘banned for your own good’ list it currently resides on. With our poker friendly President, and with the PPA pounding the pavement around Washington, as well as continuing its grass roots campaigns across the country, legalized online poker may be a real possibility sooner than expected

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Online poker has hit a major crossroads over the last couple years, trending toward a seller's market. The shift away from a buyer's market began in 2006 when whispers began of the US Government attempts to ban online poker.

The head of online poker was effectively cut off in October 2006, when Party Poker (the #1 online poker site at the time) decided to ban US players from it's site. Party's decision was followed by similar action from dozens of sites, many of them top rakeback and bonuses sites.

NBC will broadcast the Poker version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire”. With a million dollars at stake, this new poker reality show is sure to bring more US citizens close to the game of poker.
The show, which has been titled “Face The Ace”, will pit amateur qualifiers in heads up NL Texas Hold’em battle against some of the top poker players in the world.

It seems even the very conservative leaning Fox news is coming around to the benefits of legalizing online poker. Not one of the hosts is hostile about the possibility of legalized online poker.

A while back I wrote a piece about making the transition from the online game to playing live poker. This article is the follow-up to that one, focusing on live players making the switch to online poker.

The reasons I call online poker a fast food chain are:

I've read at least 100 poker books over the years, and they've been filled with an abundance of useful information. However, I've also found some great poker insights from books written on other subjects. Here is my list of the top 5 non-poker books... For poker!

It seems every year there is an increasing number of players with nicknames like “RaSZi”, “WhiteLime”, and “OMGClayAiken” popping up on the leaderboard of big tournaments. Actually nickname is a bit of a misnomer; screen-name is the actual term. You see these players all made their bones in the world of online poker, and are now parlaying their online success to live play.
One needs to look no further than the $40k NLHE