The real history of online poker, told from inside the boom. Virtual Gold Rush is out now.
The real history of online poker, told from inside the boom. Virtual Gold Rush is out now.
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From a handful of servers in Costa Rica to a global industry, and the single afternoon in April 2011 that ended it. Herbert Okolowitz was inside it.
Full Tilt Poker owed players $300M when it collapsed in 2011. Here's what actually happened, and how player funds were eventually recovered.
How PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker built two opposite bets on what online poker should be, and how both ended on the same afternoon in April 2011.
How an accountant's satellite win at the 2003 WSOP triggered online poker's biggest boom: the Moneymaker Effect, explained.
