The 2011 World Series of Poker even after suffering the April 15th set back has come back strongly and is tasting success. Even after facing a lot of crackdown from the government, online poker has gained a lot of popularity from people all across the world. Many poker rooms surfaced online offering players from USA many incentives and bonuses to sign up. This was especially seen in the Las Vegas when a large number of people gathered to make the most out of their poker skills. As many as 75,000 people participated and played in the 58 WSOP bracelet events making a prize pool of a whopping $187,109,850.

This success of the WSOP shows how popular poker is in this era and how the globalization of poker with the help of Internet has made several people interested in playing poker. Even after this tremendous craze for poker, the United States is yet to make the most out of this booming industry of poker. This is mainly evident from the fact that the US is still hesitant to provide licenses to companies in US so that they can provide real money poker. This is nothing but a forced suppression of personal freedom of the US citizens. Thus, it is time to press for laws such as H.R. 2366 and H.R. 1174. These are nothing but legislation that support online poker.

The success and popularity of poker is evident mostly because out of the 6,800 main event entries began in the first place. This alone garnered $8.71 and with 75,672 entries on Sunday made the WSOP the biggest ever tournament. The main motive of these entries was not only to play poker but it was a call to the government to legalize online poker.

This has been a tremendous turnout from the 2,576 main event entries in 2004. The continued increasing support to legalize online poker in Washington will most probably come to fruition this year. This has also made a lot of casino executives a lot more optimistic than they have been ever before.

Legalizing online poker will definitely ensure more explosive growth in the arena of poker and people will not have to wait for too long to see the main event entries touching 10,000 and the sky will only be the limit for these entries.

Poker tournaments are not just money making machines; they are in fact something more than these. People who love to play poker are also ready to travel miles to take part in the World Series of Poker and are also willing to spend a lot of money. There is no doubt that it is going to be difficult to maintain this record.

This could have already taken place earlier especially if the politicians would have not got stuck in the bad deal of 2006, when the poker world was knocked for a loop by former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s through his successful efforts to nibble the tremendous growth of Internet gambling with laws that prohibited U.S. financial institutions from handling transactions.

In a 10-20 Hold’em game at the MGM Hotel, a drunk was begining to get out of hand.
“Well that was one pussy-pink river card from you dealer!” he bellowed after missing a flush.
The dealer beheld the drunk gravely; “Sir, there is a young lady at the table. If you don’t control your language, you will have to leave.”
On the next hand, the drunk doesn’t improve his set on the flop and looses to a straight. “Jesus Christ! Why don’t you just light my fucking wallet on fire pinhead!”
The dealer was absolutely at his limit; “Sir, I’m telling you for the last time; there is a young lady at the table! Control your language or you will be escorted out of here!”
On the following hand, every player in the game wades into the pot. There are raises and caps on every card. In the end, the drunk sucks out an inside straight and wins the 10-20 pot of the month. The drunk looks out over his pile of chips at the dealer and asks, “Do you boys pool your tips togeather or do you keep them for yourselves?”
The dealer replies “All dealers here keep their own tips.”
The drunk tosses two green chips at the dealer and says with a grin; “Well have a Goddamn toke on me, motherfucker.”
The dealer picks up the $50, turns to the young woman and says, “Miss, I’m afraid you’ll have to leave the table.”

Submitted by David Pitts