Online Poker
From SI410
The rise of online poker has been evident in the last two decades, much of which is due to Chris Moneymaker. In 2003, Moneymaker entered an $86 tournament on Pokerstars and came in first place with the reward being a spot in the $10,000 World Series of Poker(WSOP) main event. He eventually won this tournament and $2.5 million. This led to a boom in the online poker industry as by 2006, the field for the WSOP main event increased ten-fold and there were more than 38 million tournaments hosted by Pokerstars.[1] There are numerous big name sites that command thousands of players daily, such as PokerStars, Partypoker, and Americas Cardroom.