Now I know how the game came into being, my interest was turned to knowing how to play the game. The game is nowadays played mostly online on the internet. My decision to play on the internet was based on the fact that it is dramatically cheaper, and has no overhead costs. But this does not mean that there is no fraud here, it is more open to certain kind of fraud. The fraud is mostly in the form of collusions of players. The first ever online poker was played on as early as 1990’s in the form of IRC poker. In a short span of time a first online card room to offer real money was introduced in the form of Planet Poker. These online sites offer lots of features to woo the new players. One of the familiar features that I came across on online poker is the satellite tournaments, through which a player can get an entry to real life poker tournaments. Players like Chris Moneymaker in 2003 and Greg “Fossilman” Raymer in 2004 got entry by first playing in the online poker, and subsequently they went on to win the tournament. Online Poker is legal and is regulated in many countries. It is more popular in the Caribbean areas and the United Kingdom. At this time there are more then 200 Internet poker rooms and the largest poker room being about 50,000 people playing poker at the same time during the peak playing hours.