Poker Abounds

Even with the US crackdown on online slot machines and poker playing, there are more sites popping up daily that poker players would love. However, if you live in the United States you cannot legally play them. Over the past few weeks, just as laws have been getting stricter and stricter – the number of sites has expanded drastically.

Playboy Gaming is one of the biggest as of late, and many were saddened to learn that they could not actually play on the site legally. Some say the fact that Playboy is willing to start their own site just shows that eventually all of this will turn around and online slot machines and poker will be legal again. They say that big names like them are just proof that the day is coming.

GNUF.com is another large group that has built a reputation of a successful online gambling – they tout themselves as a mix of MySpace and Vegas. People can play the slot machines or poker games, upload photos, blog, debate other customers, etc. all from the same site.

Virgin Games has gotten into the mix with their online gambling site being brought from the same people who brought you music and airlines – all with major successes. The site was launched Super Bowl week in a cross marketing move that put the other sites to shame. They already have more than 5000 players and the site hasn’t even been up for three months yet.

Many of the sites can only be played by non US residents, but one site – PokerStars – has left itself open to US residents so that they can play. It has become the largest poker room in the world, with more than 20,000 money playing customers at its peak times. The site was only doing about half of that business before the UIGEA was passed.

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