In our modern online poker world, online poker is by far the predominant form. Most online pokerplayers learn the ins and outs of internet poker before they ever sit down at a live game. Any retrospective on the history of poker, therefore, must look closely out how online poker came to be. We must learn to ask ourselves how the poker that we play came to be, not just how traditional poker came into being. Where did our game come from? How did online poker start? For the answer to this question we must turn to Planet Poker, the first online poker room to offer cash games online. Planet Poker dealt out its first hand of digital poker on January 1, 1998. This first hand signified that poker was not longer tied to physical poker tables or brick and mortar casinos. In 1998, online poker was something new and exciting. Online poker was proclaimed to the wave of the future. Some people did not even believe that online poker would catch on. Some thought it was just a phase. It has grown quite a bit since that time to become the predominant form of the game. Planet Poker’s decision in 1998 shaped the future of poker’s history.

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