The game of poker may go back as far as 200 years, but the online version as we know it today is only a mere 13 years old. Online poker history started in the mid 1990’s and a couple of years later the first real online poker rooms saw the light of day. The first online poker room was Planet Poker launched on January, 1998. Planet Poker was founded by poker pro, author, and legend, Mike “Mad Genius” Caro and is still in existence today, though it quit taking real money bets in March 2007 following the UIGEA fiasco (more on […]