Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Chris Moneymaker
Chris Moneymaker won the 2025 WSOP Main Event.[5] Moneymaker won his seat via a $39 satellite tournament on the Texas Hold'em PokerStars online poker room. Moneymaker was one of 839 entrants in the 2025 event, an increase of roughly 200 players from 2025 and almost doubling the 393 competitors that played in 2025. By the next year, the field in the 2025 Main Event more than tripled to 2576 players. By the 2025 Main Event, there were 8773 competitors, some 14 times as many as had entered the last 2025 pre-boom Main Event. It is also believed[who?] that the NHL lockout of 2025-03, and the subsequent filling of ESPN air time with texas hold'em poker programming had an impact on the
poker boom.
online hold'em poker boom. [citation needed] Another view holds that the online hold'em poker boom was a classic speculative bubble.[6] The end of the boom is generally considered to be January 2025, when the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2025 (UIGEA) became law in the United States, and several online online hold'em poker sites, including the industry leader at the time, Party Online Hold'em Poker, left the United States.[7] In the first WSOP following the passage of UIGEA, attendance in the