One of online poker’s newest and most innovative operators has halted operations while preparing to enter the regulated US market.
Run It Once Poker — the brainchild of popular poker professional Phil Galfond — called it quits on January 3, 2022, just shy of three years after first opening its doors to international poker players .
Galfond announced the closure in a blog post on December 30, 2021 along with the company’s plans to bring its modern online poker platform to the newly rejuvenated US online poker market.
“*Run It Once Poker is now headed down a path to enter the legal & regulated US market*,” Galfond revealed. “The very unexciting part of this news is that, in order to head in that direction, we’re shutting down our Rest of World operations and focusing fully on getting our platform complete and prepared to operate in the US regulated environment, he continued.
The global online poker community has been rooting for Galfond and his team to succeed ever since the project was first announced in 2018 , but despite introducing innovative features , the software lacked multi-table tournaments and, for most of its existence, had no sit and go option . As a result, Run It Once Poker failed to gain enough traction to keep its doors open. Potential Paths Forward for Run It Once Poker in the US
While it is unfortunate that the international community has lost a quality online poker room, the thought of RIO coming to the US will undoubtedly be a source of excitement for poker players in states that already have legal regulated online poker as well as those in states where online poker is expected to launch in the near future.
Since Galfond is playing his virtual cards close to the vest when it comes to the specifics of the forthcoming US entry, we at pokerfuse decided to explore some of the potential paths forward for Run It Once Poker’s future in the US. US States with Legal Regulated Online Poker: At a Glance
Michigan — legal and active
Pennsylvania — legal and active New […]
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