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The Poker Mirror editorial staff are continulally playing at a range of online poker rooms to provide an up to the minute review of the best places to play poker online. All the rooms featured on this site offer a good user experince and a secure environment to play online. We also keep a look out for the best sign up bonuses and game variety.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Online Poker Room Boom

The Online poker Room business is booming like never before. The recent succesful flotation of Party Game andt is associated Party Poker business has mean't that Online poker is now regularly featured in the business sections of srious newspapers as well as the more familiar teritttory of internet features.

As the size of the online poker room industry has grown , so the number of poker players who make a living by playing in online poker rooms has exploded. Ladbrooks poker, the largest online poker room in the UK recently reported that £19 million per day ($35 million) was being staked in Britains Online Poker Rooms.

As online poker rooms have prospered so have online poker room players. The top names can now expect to make as much money from the game as the big names in other sports such as football and motor racing. One of the new breed of Online poker superstars is Erik "The Salmon" Sagstrom. Erik reportedly earnt over $1 million playing online poker in 2004 alone. At the same time Britain;s very own Dave "Devlifish" Ulliott eclipsed stars such as Paula Radcliffe, Stephen Hendry and Phil Taylor by earning a new record of $600,000.

In every continent on the planet men and also a growing number of women are carving out lucrative careers from the online poker world. So if you fancy telling the boss to stick his performance targets and starting out as a poker professional try checking out the Poker Mirror poker professional guide

Is Online Poker Legal ?

There is something of a question mark about the legality of online poker in the US.
This has been a point of contention for the industry as a whole and has come into particular prominence with the recent flotation of certain online poker rooms such as Party Poker.

The honest answer to the question is that no one is really sure just at the moment. Certainly people who oppose gambling in general would like to see online prohibited. However there are many who say that as poker is a game of skill rather than chance that it should be excluded from legislation banning gambling from the internet in the same way that such cases are made for skill games such as Zuma.

As for the chances of being prosecuted for playing poker online, Professor I.Nelson Rose one of the world's leading authorities on gambling law is on record as having said "No ethical lawyer would ever tell you to brealk the law. But I have not found one reported case in the history of the United States and Canada , of a player being arrested for making a bet on the internet."

However the tide of political opinion in Washington as in other centres of power is forever moving and opponents of online poker can attack the game at it's vulnerable points by trying to stop the use of credit card transfers and other forms of electronic account funding.On the other side of the debate In the US supporters of online gambling such as John Conyers Junior have been looking at ways of making internet gambling completely legal and regulating it effectively .

In the UK things are different there are no ambiguities about the legality of online poker and individuals are free to engage in all types of online ganbling as they wish.