It seems that online poker is the latest way to make a fortune. Not by playing it, of course, but by owning the websites where people play. The Guardian reports that the owners of the most popular website (PartyPoker) are going to become billionaires when the company floats.
Don’t surprise me – several of my friends in the UK seem quite keen on playing online. And writing about it on their blogs, naturally enough. Sadly, I only understand about 20% of what they write, not having played poker of any kind for several years, and never having played online. And, truth to tell, when I did play all those years ago, I wasn’t all that good – though, as I recall, that didn’t stop me winning some of the time, much to the irritation of the so-called experts.
The Guardian piece says that online gaming sites have their eye on China, figuring (not unreasonably) that when a nation of gamblers gets easy access to the Internet anything might happen. Given the popularity of fleapits in Macau and those bizarre cruises to nowhere, playing on the Internet has got to be an attractive option.
Ordinary Gweilo 
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