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One of the fastest growing forms of online gambling today is online poker gambling. The expansion of online casino poker helped the great campaign of advertising poker through television tournaments which can be seen on Travel Channel's World Poker Tour, ESPN with the 2004 World Series of Poker (WSOP), and Bravo's Celebrity Poker.

It's believed to have started back in 2004 when an impressive number of qualifiers for the 2004 WSOP entered the competition after they won online satellite tournaments for a fraction of the large entry fees paid by others.

Land based casinos holding poker tournaments are busier than ever, having to turn people away and on weekends players need sometimes to wait two hours to get to a poker table. Things are the same with online poker tournaments but being played from the comfort of their homes players don’t need to wait to get to a table.

Having so many people transformed in poker players, online poker tournaments tables are seeing with each tournament younger and younger future poker professionals. The reason is of course the opportunity of online poker gambling. If by playing in a land based casino a player would need a few years to gain the knowledge of a professional poker player. With online casino poker this knowledge period is compressed to several months.

You can see now college students playing next to old poker start in Texas Hold'Em poker tournaments on TV or playing poker online having the advantage of the 24/7 availability. Having online poker sites offering free online poker games for the ones who want to practice their skill or just to have fun without losing any money, casino owners found a way to answer this need also. Today land based casinos are offering too free poker lessons.

Another way for someone to learn poker is through The Travel Channel featuring review and analysis of poker hands on Wednesdays through its WPT Poker Corner. There are debates over the tells, the big mistakes, and bluffs, this being an excellent way to learn how to improve one's game.

So, people are being encouraged to learn poker and offered the opportunity to become millionaire along the way (the 2004 WSOP champion won a $5,000,000 check, the 2005 WSOP offered a $6,000,000 first place prize, the 2006 WSOP champion got a $12,000,000 prize and the 2007 WSOP finalist won a $8.25 million prize) there is no wonder why everyone seems headed to the poker tables today.