Poker the ace card in
gambling's future

Betting to make more headlines

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

By Robert Fenton
Belfast Telegraph

The fastest growth is in on-line gambling. It accouts for four per cent of the market but that picture will change as it expands at 40 per cent per annum.

Sports betting takes up 45 per cent of the on-line pool with gaming (casinos) around 32 per cent. But it's predicted that on-line poker will outstrip both in less that three years time as the frenzy of sites continue.

Poker is now being hyped up in newspapers and televison and the feats of Belfast-born Adam Black in scooping £1m in Las Vegas in the World Series of Poker tournament and Aussie Jo Hachem who walked away with £4.28m - the biggest prize in poker history - will add to the allure.

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