Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
gaming licences
gaming licences to many of the world's online casinos and poker rooms.[1][2] This is an attempt to keep the operations of licensed online gambling organisations fair and transparent. In the late 1990s, online gambling gained popularity.
Internet gambling websites
Internet gambling websites had increased from just 15 websites in 1996, to 200 websites in 1997. A report published by Frost & Sullivan revealed that online gambling revenues had exceeded $830 million in 1998 alone.[2] In the same year the first online poker rooms were introduced.[1][2] Soon after in 1999, the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act was introduced, meaning a company could not offer any online gambling product to any U.S citizen. This did not pass.[1] Multiplayer online gambling was also introduced in 1999. This was the first time people could gamble, chat and interact with each other in an interactive environment.[citation needed] In 2000, the first Australian Federal Government passed the