The little room that couldn’t has been forced to close their doors today. Duplicate Poker has stated that due to the fact that they are in the middle of the financial crisis in the USA at present, they are unable to continue operations.

Duplicate came on the scene with a different spin on the game of Texas Hold ‘em that never seemed to catch on. The same seat at each table would receive the same hand, which somehow dubbed it a “skill game”

But real Poker players seemed to want nothing to do with the new way of playing the game that Duplicate Poker offered. Even though Duplicate could advertise it’s games as 100% US Legal, players still opted to play at “semi-legal” US rooms such as Full Tilt and Pokerstars.

This happens after Chan Poker closed down a little over one month ago, and it begs the question: Where is online Poker really headed? Is it dying?

There’s no doubt the games are much tougher than they were back in the old days of US-Legal Party Poker. Does that mean the sharks have gone elsewhere? Are the players in general leaving online rooms?

Perhaps if the US Government could just legalize online gambling, and tax it, maybe we could bail ourselves out of this crisis.

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