Poker Boom Or Poker Gloom?

2007 has been a tough year, especially for the online poker world. But not just online poker everywhere has been taking a battering from the authorities. Yet still time and time again poker keeps taking the hits and coming right back, stronger and more resourceful.

The United States has tried it's hardest to stop online gambling and lets face it freedom of choice. Just a few months ago Doyle's Room Poker announced it was opening it's markets back into the United States. Hallelujah, justice? Of course. And I hope many more follow suit.

International advertising, the restrictions have gotten harder as the European Community, and others, have placed more and more restrictions on gaming sites. Some even taking steps to ban advertising for all but those who meet the strictest criteria.

So yes as in any industry there is always some gloom, how you come through it is a mark of character.

Poker tours and events have gotten bigger, more varied, entering new markets and overall, more exciting. Events being screened live via webcasts, attracting huge global audiences have seen tours like EPT and WPT add more events to their circuits and now with the arrival of the APPT (Asia and Pacific Poker Tour) poker and its professionalism is now available to anyone around the globe.

Poker sites have announced drops in profits since the loss of the US Market but these drops have been minimal and offset with new ventures. So it looks like the boom is set to continue for sometime into the foreseeable future.

Good luck in 2009

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Source by Kev Smith