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It appears that one of the oldest online Texas Hold’em websites on the internet is returning to live money action.  PokerRoom.com is rumored to soon be offering live online poker gaming once again.  We say rumored because the “source” confirming that the site was reopening later retracted his statement.

PokerRoom May Be Back Soon

PokerFuse.com recently released an article quoting a tweet from Bwin.com SEO Manager Josef Rantamäki .  He tweeted, “Wow! www.pokerroom.com will be relaunched and once again offer real money poker games.”

Soon afterwards, after PokerRoomBlog called him out on the blog, he tweeted, ” @PokerRoomBlog Sorry I just got excited when I saw the banner on your home page. Can you confirm or deny these rumors?”  Of course, PokerRoomBlog neither confirmed nor denied the rumors.

This smells like Rantamäki jumped the gun on tweeting the information and this was an effort to cover up his tweet.  Naturally, it didn’t work as word is now being spread around the internet of the pending reopening of the site.

PokerRoom was first opened in 1999 and became one of the first online poker site to spread real money poker games online.  In the 10 years that followed, PokerRoom became one of the leaders in the industry and were among the first sites to offer a Mac Poker client for online users.

The site experienced tremendous growth post 2003 thanks in large part to the poker boom and joined the Ongame Network.  Until 2006, it was among the top sites in the world until the United States passed the UIGEA, making it illegal for US banks to process online gaming transactions.  Ongame then pulled out of the US market.

While still one of the major names on the Ongame Network, the real money poker site was shut down in 2009 but the domain has remained active.  If true, this would bring one of the oldest sites back into the forefront of online poker.

A date for the relaunch of the site has not been announced, but a new banner on the site give players the option to sign-up for future updates.