Chinese Entry into Online Gaming
The entry of Asia into the online gaming and poker market is a huge dream for both players and owners of major companies in the industry. Asia is the largest untapped resource of players of casino games and the money they bring with them, and as a culture, Asians are enthusiastic about gambling and poker online. If the Communist Chinese government were to grant its two billion citizens the right to gamble online, traffic on major sites would almost instantly double at the very least, and would have the potential to grow exponentially.
For anyone who watched the opening ceremony at summer Olympic Games in Beijing, you know the sheer magnitude of the number of people in China. A third of the world’s population lives there, and they are modernizing and coming onto the world stage in a big way. That said, the internet hasn’t perforated society there in the same way it has in other Asian countries like Korea and Japan, but as referenced in the Olympic games, China wants to be on the same level as every other country, and the Chinese internet age cannot be far from inception.
What we as poker players can look forward to is the biggest influx of poker beginners that love to gamble that we have ever seen. Asians tend to have a philosophy associated with gaming that puts a lot of emphasis on fate and luck. These tenets are widely accepted as reasonable, and thusly the popularity of games such as Baccarat and Pai Gow in Asian culture, that are exclusively games of chance. Infusion of hundreds of millions of pure gamblers into online gaming would spawn nothing short of a new age of prosperity for Internet poker players. Until then, we just have to sit and wait and hope that the Chinese government moves forward on its relaxation of hard line Communism.
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