No Limit: The Wild Rise & Spectacular Fall of the Online Poker Boom

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - June 3, 2026 - PRLog -- Twenty years ago, the 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) set a record for the largest Main Event prize awarded to date — $12 million — a record that would stand for 17 years. The poker industry was thriving.

But dark clouds lurked on the horizon. In late 2006, Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). In an attempt to circumvent the UIGEA, third-party payment processors engaged in blatant bank fraud, leading to the 2011 law enforcement action known as Black Friday that brought the poker boom to an ignominious end.

No Limit: The Wild Rise & Spectacular Fall of the Online Poker Boom is a thrilling and nostalgic look at the 2000s poker boom. The book traces the history of the poker boom through events such as:

● The development of the "hole cam" and online poker in the late 1990s
● Chris Moneymaker's historic win at the 2003 WSOP Main Event
● The underhanded legislative maneuver that led to the passage of the UIGEA
● Insider cheating scandals at Absolute Poker and UltimateBet
● A mysterious Swedish player responsible for the largest pots in online poker history against a who's-who of top online poker players
● Black Friday and the spectacular collapse of Full Tilt Poker
● The uphill battle to legalize online poker after Black Friday

Author Nash Connor is releasing No Limit twenty years after the historic 2006 WSOP, an event that opens the book, on the verge of another historic WSOP:

"With the return of the Main Event to ESPN and hours of free online streaming on YouTube, the 2026 World Series of Poker is shaping up to be the biggest poker event in years.

"Twenty years ago, the poker boom peaked with the 2006 WSOP. Millions of players were introduced to the game in the 2000s, but the history of that era is being slowly forgotten. No Limit hopes to educate poker enthusiasts about this historic period in poker history, and perhaps inspire a new wave of inside accounts on the events of this era."

Nash Connor is an author and former online poker affiliate marketer who first took up poker during Chris Moneymaker's historic 2003 WSOP Main Event run.

Technical Details

● Title: No Limit: The Wild Rise & Spectacular Fall of the Online Poker Boom
● Release Date: June 26, 2026
● ISBN: 978-0-9826459-8-7
● Price: $17.95 paperback, $9.95 ebook
● Available at: Kindle ebook preorder at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H28TP9PF.

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