Why did everybody play?

The Poker phenomenon came as a surprise to everybody in the gaming industry, both online and terrestrial. It just seemed to happen without much forward planning, and left many operators scrambling to get a poker product out there to appease a hungry tide of new players. At the recent Internation gaming Conference and Expo held in Costa Rica, one was asked to talk about what the next 'Poker' might be. The question started me thinking about the qualities of poker as a game, and about the events that created an environment where poker could flourish.

Unfortunately, no answer was definitive answer as to what the next poker would be, but the conferance was able to identify factors that 'the next big thing' would need to process if it were to emulate the success poker.

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