Poker has quickly turned into a world-wide phenomenon. What was once a game for seasoned veterans and backyard-cowboy wannabes has seeped into the mainstream of American Pop-culture. Movies like Rounders also helped take the game into an unprecedented peak. Televising and broadcasting the games on national airways, has also help catapult the card game into the stratosphere. Las Vegas known gamblers like Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu have shot to stardom and icon symbols in the world and are now as known as Ben Affleck is.

With a strong fan base and how to books on poker on a steady rise, the poker boom is well on its way and don’t be too surprised if Hollywood comes knocking and delivers a few blockbuster poker movies in the coming years. With programs like celebrity poker and other poker games like the WSOP clogging the mainstream channels and even taking up major real estate in famed cable TV and satellite TV, poker is definitely here to stay. Even though communist styled American legislation that has banned transaction to and from poker sites. A few of the big boys have adhered to the law, but some of the independent poker sites like poker stars and full tilt poker have opted not to do so and have continued with their business in America.