But the sites which still accept players from the USA have, certainly, shown growth. Thus, on the very eve of the New Year 2008 PokerStars announced about achievement of 200 000 poker players simultaneously, but still these growth rates are not more than 50 percent per annum.

Curiously enough, the slowdown of poker online room players was also very noticeable high street. For the first time over many years at the main WSOP tournament there were fewer players than the previous year, when it reaches this, approximately 20 percent less. Earlier a large number of gamblers were presented by poker online rooms, but disappearance of the number of American gamblers online, as well as tougher rules concerning the advertising of poker online rooms at the tournament resulted in the rooms being passive in involvement of gamblers for WSOP.

If everything is bad in america, than in Europe the situation is contradictory. On the one hand, the EU did not allow the Italians, trying to ban online casino games, to do it. A new law in great britain not only legalizes online wagering as well as allows advertising online casinos, however, the company should be licensed in the EU บาคาร่าออนไลน์ . In connection with this, Malta, which has become the centre of online companies in Europe, has a windfall and will manage to earn quite some money. On the other hand, Germany passed a law appropriate New Year's Eve which banned online casino games and their advertising, though, everybody considers that the EU will make the German repeal the law in question. For quite a while there are rumours in the air that Norway will ban online casino games, Turkey, though it is not quite a European country but it has also made a ban.

As for poker online, there was a rift within poker online rooms awaiting for its resolution. For the first time fraud in an poker online room was proved and accepted (to you have to be exact, not the room itself, but of one of its senior managers). Absolute Poker confessed that one of the operators gained access to the players' cards (he knew all the pocket cards, but not the cards which drop out at the flop/turn/river). He shared this information in reference to his partner who managed to win a big tournament. To prove everything was possible due to a pure mistake in sending of the history which was received by another participant of the disastrous tournament. Absolute Poker made an investigation, offers to refund losses to every one those who suffered and toughen the security system. Though, Absolute Poker cheating scandal has caused damage not only for a poker-room, as well as the industry generally, however, this blow is not unsafe.