The Golden Era of Online Poker: How a $50 Deposit Changed Everything
When I first started playing online poker for real money, the virtual felt looked a lot different than it does today. For me, it all started on PartyPoker . Why PartyPoker? Simple. I was watching a televised poker tournament on the Travel Channel, and I caught a limit poker final table where a young, charismatic Daniel Negreanu completely crushed the competition. I watched Kid Poker take it down and immediately thought, "Okay, that’s where I need to play." But there was a massive hurdle to clear first: How do I actually get money onto an online poker site? The Wild West of Online Poker Banking: Enter Neteller Back in the early 2000s, before the landscape changed completely, a Canadian company called Neteller was the undisputed king of poker banking. (They’re actually still around today, though they no longer service US accounts). The process was seamless. I would transfer cash to Neteller, log into PartyPoker, and fund my account. The deposits were instant, and incredibly, ...