Browse Games By Year: Select a Year

The first column is the average rating by members of the site. It works like this: = rated 3 out of 5 possible. In Firefox (and probably Opera, etc) you can mouse over the rating to see how many times the game was rated. See also: Browse By Name

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Please choose a year above to see results.

Without the internet, of course, there could be no online poker. In the early days of the internet, real time communication was a challenge. The internet was mostly used to transmit large packets of information from one computer to another. Jarkko Oikarinen, an internet visionary, saw a diffenent use. He created IRC, or Internet Relay Chat, in 1988. IRC was the first instant messaging system. As soon as two people could communicate effectively online, players saw the applications for their favorite poker game, and IRC poker began. There were no graphics and no real money poker sites, but IRC poker was the predecessor of something big.