Popular Poker Site Counts Over 5 Million Players

Recently one of the online casino industries most popular online casinos passed an online gaming milestone. The site, which now has a $1 million guaranteed weekly tournament, registered its 5 millionth player, and boast of attracting 100,000 player at a time.

One Las Vegas chef, George Draper is an online poker newcomer. Once Draper signed up at this popular online casino he was amazed to find out that the was the 5 millionth customer. As a reward, Draper was given a free seat in the 2006 World Series of Poker main event, and a free entry into the 4th annual World Championship of Online Poker, the largest online poker tournament around the world.

The unbelievable membership number, 5 million, is the same as the population of an American city. Although anyone who follows online poker news should hardly be surprised by the rapid growth of the online poker community. Online poker players are not only limited to the United States, where the majority of players live, but there are players at this particular site from across the globe. The winner of the 2005 World Series of Poker, Joe Hachem, is a native Australian.

According to Nolan Dalla, the poker sites Director of Communications, “No region in particular has grown faster than nay other, although our increase in Europe has been very encouraging. [The online poker site]… is clearly the leader in the European market, which is no surprise since we are the exclusive sponsor of the European Poker Tour and run many major events in Europe.”

This February the site had 100,000 simultaneous players for the first time. In comparison with the largest brick and mortar casino, which normally holds around 250 tables, this site has more than 50 times that many tables, games and players. In 2003 the site had only 10,000 players at one time, but today you can fill a major league baseball stadium with the number of active players logged in.

The rising popularity of online poker rooms is no surprise. Many would be poker players are intimidated by brick and mortar casinos, for them online poker rooms are a way to build knowledge and confidence before sitting at a real table. While live poker games have the added troubles of psychological warfare, (poker faces etc.), online poker rooms offer a much more comfortable environment, along with many tips, hints and articles for interested players to read. Many of the most popular online casinos today are poker rooms.

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New Payment Option For Poker Players

With all the threats of fraud and theft associated with online shopping, many online payment companies have risen to help meet the challenge. Now a few online payment method options are available for people who refuse to give up the convenience of online shopping and gaming, and won’t take chances with their personal safety. After all without a good payment method how can you have secure online gambling?

Due to strict anti-online gambling laws in the United States, some US online players are limited with their options for online payment methods for secure online gambling. Canadian players, along with US players, who do not want to give out their personal banking details have been very limited in choices of online gaming payment services at some online casinos. Though certain secure online gambling casinos offer many choices for payment methods, others only offer one or two specific services.

Now one more secure online gambling is opening its gates to a favorite payment method of American and Canadian poker players- Firepay. The poker site originally accepted only Neteller as a payment service, but after recognizing the special needs of its North American customers, online poker players can now enjoy secure online gambling with Firepay as well.

Firepay works similar to a debit card system, which allows online poker players to establish a middle man in between their bank and the casino. To use Firepay, a player places money into a Firepay account directly from their US or Canadian bank accounts. From the Firepay account a player can then purchase chips for poker games online, without putting their personal banking information onto the internet.

There is no fee to sign up with Firepay, or to use the service to send money to secure online gambling casinos. However, players are charged small fees every time they make a deposit from their bank accounts into the Firepay account.

North Americans currently make up more than half of the Texas Hold’em players in online casino sites around the world. Since they are the largest customer base for online poker rooms, online poker sites are currently setting out to provide players with whatever options they need for secure online gambling.

Firepay is not the only online payment options for online casino players from North America. Another online payment company, Citadel, is similar to Firepay but with even more extensive security measures. Other payment options exist for those who do not hold a current US or Canadian bank account, but still want to play in online casinos, 1-900. A 1-900 number allows all payments to online casino sites to be charged to your monthly phone bill.

No matter how you choose to pay at your online casino, make sure you find a payment method that works for you. The best online gambling is secure online gambling!

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