Revenues from online casinos will have reached $24.5 billion by 2010, double the current amount, according to a consultancy firm.

US company Christiansen Capital Advisors says that much of the increase will be down to the unstoppable popularity of online poker, according to onlinecasinonews.

Online poker is enjoying an impressive ascent to power partly through television coverage and mainly down to its place as the number one gambling game to be involved in.

In fact, poker is currently the US’s most popular televised game after American football and car racing.

And when you bear in mind the presence of huge companies such as Playtech in the poker world, which is investing 40 per cent of it resources into developing future poker products, then sky’s the limit for the future of online gambling.

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