World Series of Poker is for the show

World Series of Poker is for the show. The money is on the Internet. There are approximately 400 000 players online every night.

Even an ordinary player can make $ 100 000, said GYL Savoie, project manager of Michigan who admits to having made a lot of money with poker.

But Savoie, a former champion of backgammon, with a share head of the gamblers Sunday. In fact, most players lose on the Internet, and among the winners, only a few earn their living. Unlike the casinos, poker clubs are not involved in the game rather they take a percentage of the money bet (about 5%, what is called the rake). Philippe Boucher, for example, gives $ 20 000 per month at Partypoker, which returns the fifth of the sum in order to retain a little like the casinos when they spoil the big players.

As updates on all poker sites in 2005 totaled 60 billion, profits of virtual poker rooms are enormous. The giant Partypoker has more than 2,000 new members per day and there are regularly over

80 000 players in action. The company has grown from a revenue of 83 million in 2001 to 2.4 billion in 2005.

Next Sunday, Oct. 1, Pokerstars guaranteed three million in prizes during the main tournament of its world championship of poker on the Internet. And that figure should rise accordingly to the inscriptions, which are numerous.

Basically, it is anticipated that the industry of poker on the Internet will report 24 billion of profit by 2010. Not surprising when you consider that 60 to 80 million Americans play poker and have access to crowded rooms.

If poker players on the Internet are mostly Americans (84% of the turnover of Party Gaming, owner of Party Poker will diminish) the online game does not render legal status in the United States. Moreover, all the servers are safely outside the United States: Kahnawake, Gibraltar, Antigua, Isle of Man, Trinidad ...

A bill under consideration in the U.S. Senate may soon prevent the use of credit cards to deposit money in the sites of game money on the Internet. But even if governments do not intervene directly against poker sites, the windfall will not last forever, said GYL Savoie. Most players are losers and eventually stop playing.