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Archive for November 28th, 2008

Pokerstars Texas Holdem: Online Poker Fraud

by Double Trouble

In the poker business, we saw a huge increase in activity over the last few years. Business people are making good money during this poker boom. Let’s take a look at the ways people are cashing big checks in the poker world.

Before we look at that, let’s look at why this boom has happened. We can identify three distinct events that have caused the growth in people hitting the poker tables. Okay, listed chronologically, this is what took place that created the increase in poker activity.

The first event was in 1994 when polish poker player, entrepreneur, Henry Orenstein developed, and patented, the know how for the “hole card cam”. With this invention the audience gets to know the hole cards that the players have as the hand is played. The first appearance of this invention occurred in 1997 on an English poker telecast.

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