10 best events of the decade in poker. Part Two
Building the new year and decade last week began with a review of the ten events of the decade in poker, thanks to a couple of articles from the boys in Poker News Daily . We stayed in the review at number six, so we’re going today to end the list with the five most important events of the decade.
5. Expanding beyond poker USA
Until the mid-decade, poker, especially tournaments live, were a largely American pastime. With the advent of European Poker Tour in 2004, this changed. The EPT poker led to a new audience and made the poker boom to expand even further.
Luca Pagano, the most successful player of the EFA – CardPlayer.com photography
Not surprisingly, the first memories that many Spanish players have come from poker broadcasts on Eurosport from the first seasons of European Poker Tour .
As of today no longer only have the European Poker Tour , is also the Asia and Pacific Poker Tour, the Latin American Poker Tour, Poker Tour Russian, etc, etc, etc.
4. The biggest challenge to date poker, UIGEA
The steamroller that online poker had become suddenly found himself with a blow in 2006. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) looked like the end of online poker, and somehow it which was a big change.
The Boards’s strongest moment came when a second plane stopped working with Americans, and new giants will soon emerge, with PokerStars to the head.
But not only in online poker will notice the change, including the main event World Series of Poker had missed the past three years the share it had in 2006 with Jamie Gold’s victory.
3. Poker comes to television
A decade earlier was impossible to watch poker on television. The main events of the World Series of Poker 2000 and 2001 were recorded and issued on a documentary on the Discovery Channel. And this was the only poker that could be seen.
All that changed when ESPN decided to do something more like the broadcast of sporting events by acquiring the rights to the WSOP 2002. In 2003 it began issuing previous events as well as increasing the coverage of the main event. And with the booming Moneymaker effect all was shot.
Now, with programs like High Stakes Poker and Poker After Dark, the presence of poker is tremendous, even in our country where we can see poker every week, with many celebrities participating in the programs of PokerStars .
2. Establishing the World Poker Tour
Before we talked about the expansion of poker. The creation of the World Poker Tour in 2002 to simulate the international golf circuit was another turning point. The idea was to bring poker to exotic places as well, beyond the typical playgrounds of the United States.
In addition this initially issued by the Travel Channel, which made the short list of high cost tournaments – exotic locations – a television consiguieses exaggerated popularity ratings.
Despite the ups and downs the WPT on today remains one of the three major world tours and made many gamers very famous characters worldwide.
1. The birth of online poker
Has anyone had any doubt what the biggest poker event of the decade?
In 2000 the presence of online poker rooms was almost zero, and practically none were really popular. The creation of more wards and rooms made initially came the realization that you could play poker online.
The improvement of technologies, especially the reliability of the network did the rest. Today the online poker is stronger than ever, there are hundreds of poker rooms and hundreds of thousands of players worldwide.
Without going any further, none of us would be here now if not for online poker. The most important event of the decade poker and would not surprise me that .
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