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Live Poker Popularity Surge In Australia

If you wonder how the favorite game of live poker traveled from the land based casino to online so fast, you have to blame it on Joseph Hachem. You can watch him playing online at some of the major live poker sites online. Even though pokies, the poker machine at the brick and mortar casinos are the most sought after in Australia, the online variety has become more popular in recent years. Australians loved a game of poker at the land based casinos all along. No wonder nearly a fifth of the world's poker machines are sold in Australia even though the nation accounts for a fraction of the global population.

It tells us much about the roots of the popularity of live poker. Tournaments had been won and can be won playing poker online. At the land based casinos you can also enter into tournaments but the fees are very high and not affordable to many.

Australians, as Hachem felt in a recent article, are becoming keen students of poker. Many are also participating in tournaments more eagerly than ever before and kicking off with the Australia-New Zealand poker tours. With competition being the primary driving factor, it is natural that Australians would go headlong. With a renewed interest in the game, they are thirsting for competition at the highest level.

The two nation poker meet was at the highest professional level as Hachem saw the excitement unfold in Adelaide. More than the estimated count, there were nearly 215 players at the tournament and they were raring to have a go at more games than they were allotted. The prize winners can have a go at the Crown Aussie Millions and the Asia Pacific Poker tour all through the season with all expenses taken care of.

It is not only that Australians are only concentrating online these days, but they are also playing in the land based casinos as well. But it is far easier to cut through when one plays poker online. And perhaps that is the reason why all the major global poker titles are being held by Australians. It is also the phenomenal success of the online gaming industry that has made poker the preferred choice while playing from the comfort of one's home.

You can play live poker at the click of a mouse and there are several websites that are loaded with lucrative offers to get you going. There are different types of attractive bonuses and free offers for the newbie and the pro to get started on a live poker trip. Joseph Hachem's success at the 2005 WSOP championships has made Australians sit up and take live poker more seriously.

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