Online Poker in 2001

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Back in 2001 where online poker started to be popular, was that time reliable or were the platforms rigged? Has online poker always been reliable?
 
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Back in 2001 where online poker started to be popular, was that time reliable or were the platforms rigged? Has online poker always been reliable?
It was popular in 2001?? Well I wouldn't know about that I was 11 back then 🤣
But I can imagine that it caused a lot of frustration in players when they lost connection because someone was on the phone lol.
Got the dial in sound in my head xD
 
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It was popular in 2001?? Well I wouldn't know about that I was 11 back then 🤣
But I can imagine that it caused a lot of frustration in players when they lost connection because someone was on the phone lol.
Got the dial in sound in my head xD
I must be wrong!! Hahaha But I read in some article that poker started to become popular in 2001.
 
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I must be wrong!! Hahaha But I read in some article that poker started to become popular in 2001.
Well you must be (so) wrong then cause in 2001 internet pretty much did it's first steps and back then social media almost didn't exist at all (apart from maybe some forums perhaps and so on) ...
 
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I think in 2001 poker was unknown to the majority of the world's population and online poker should be unreliable.
 
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I must be wrong!! Hahaha But I read in some article that poker started to become popular in 2001.
We need some old guy.. @jaymfc when did online poker become popular 😁
 
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To be fair to @Fernando Lopes , 2001 was about the time that sites like UltimateBet and pokerstars were popping up and gaining traction. It didn't technically explode in popularity until 2004 like @najisami said.
 
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Well first online Rom was in 1998. (Planet poker)
partypoker and Pokerstars starts in 2001 but Paradise Poker was the big site.
Big boom was moneymaker in 2003 and WPT startes in TV shows
 
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I think it was more likely around 2004 right after that Chris Moneymaker WSOP win.
You are correct. Moneymaker started the ball rolling for a lot of new hopeful players.
Thinks jumped after his win, it was 2003 .:):):)
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We need some old guy.. @jaymfc when did online poker become popular 😁
I got your old guy hanging ;)

but I got into poker in 1876, guy next to me got shot in the back of the head
while holding two pair, aces and eights, they called him wild bill.

and who could forget Chris Ferguson winning the 2000 WSOP, what a guy.

oh you said ONLINE poker, it's hard not to get off track these days :rolleyes:
but this happened in 2003

 
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Like others said I don't think online poker was too popular in 2001, at least not in our country (I'm also from brazil). But I started to play a couple years after 2001, in 2006. In my opinion online poker was reliable in 2006 as it is now. If I don't trust the rooms, I would not play online poker. There were cases of cheating (like Absolute Poker superuser case) and others online poker scandals (like Full Tilt) at that time. But unfortunately we still see cases of online poker cheating still happening nowadays.
 
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I had an old account, one of my first at Paradise Poker, this was back in the early 2000s. Paradise Poker were in direct competition with both Pokerstars and party poker that opened up around the same time. Paradise joined Sportingbet after a few years and they focused on their sportsbook instead,

This is a screenshot of how the table looked like. Very nice design actually when you think about this was back in 2002.

paradise-poker-first.jpg
 
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I had an old account, one of my first at Paradise Poker, this was back in the early 2000s. Paradise Poker were in direct competition with both Pokerstars and Party Poker that opened up around the same time
Well first online Rom was in 1998. (Planet poker)
2001 was about the time that sites like UltimateBet and PokerStars were popping up and gaining traction
Hey guys, no one mentioned the first site I signed up to, I think it started some time before paradise, party and stars. It's pacific poker and it's still going, but under a different name : 888poker.
 
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oh you said ONLINE poker, it's hard not to get off track these days :rolleyes:
but this happened in 2003
Oh man ! Some nostalgia right there. I remember Sami Farha getting destroyed 😅😂, Moneymaker was unstoppable...
 
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I think in 2001 poker was unknown to the majority of the world's population and online poker should be unreliable.

Phil Helmuth won his first WSOP bracelet in 1989. Poker has always been popular where I live & some of these earlier WSOP main events were televised.

Online poker was BOOMING in 2005 and by 2008 it was amazing!
 
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Back in 2001 where online poker started to be popular, was that time reliable or were the platforms rigged? Has online poker always been reliable?

What would've given you the impression that poker sites were rigged back in 2001?
When I started online poker (2007) it felt much safer then vs. how it feels now.
 
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Here in argentina apenas llega el teléfono. cqsi nadie knew about the online porker.
 
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I played at PS around 2004-2007. It Was very save. But there were a lot of Limit Holdem games at that time
 
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I wish I had a time machine to play online poker back in 2001. When people would fold KK to a fourth raise.
 
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Phil Helmuth won his first WSOP bracelet in 1989. Poker has always been popular where I live & some of these earlier WSOP main events were televised.

Online poker was BOOMING in 2005 and by 2008 it was amazing!

Yes, well poker gained global popularity thanks to the internet, so many new players that maybe never heard of WSOP or Helmuth suddenly could try out this "new game" . I have to admit that I never heard of Helmuth until I started playing online , but I live in Europe and poker and gambling was restricted in my country.
 
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Hey guys, no one mentioned the first site I signed up to, I think it started some time before paradise, party and stars. It's Pacific Poker and it's still going, but under a different name : 888poker.
Pacific Poker opend in 2002, so you were a bit late to catch the poker fever ;);)
 
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Like all applications, they are always exposed to attacks without prior warning. For example, in pokerstars a few years ago I went through similar problems of cyber attacks, but over time these problems have been solved, in addition, applications and online poker rooms always maintain Safe your data and your money, personally I have never had a bad experience regarding these issues.
 
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Pacific Poker opend in 2002, so you were a bit late to catch the poker fever ;);)
Oh I see. And you must be right because I remember opening that account in early 2004.
 
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