Jamie Gold Poker

Jamie Gold has started his own free poker site on the ZEN network with $100,000 up for grabs every month

Although all poker players and those who work in the industry are well aware of the name Jamie Gold he has worked hard to keep a low profile since winning the $12 million first prize at the 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP), still the biggest prize ever paid out to a winner of the main event. Gold is a quiet and highly focussed player who up until now has refused any and all attempts to persuade him to start a poker site of his own. Now he has changed his tune and has started his own free poker site to provide a platform for players in the US to legally play poker and win cash and various prizes as a reward for their play.

The poker player has really put his money where his mouth is as he is offering at least $100,000 in cash to players every month. When talking about the new site Gold told the press that “After Black Friday and all the negativity surrounding online poker, I asked myself what I could do to help our community enjoy playing a game they love legally…Creating FreeGoldPoker.com was the clear answer.” He went on to explain just how it was that he came to the he came to the decision to start the completely legal poker site;
“This is an amazing opportunity for me to create a fun, accessible and unique experience for the poker community. As importantly, I will be able to continue to accomplish meaningful, vital and life-changing charitable goals with the additional support and commitment of the ZEN platform. It will also provide my dedicated partners a platform beyond anything I could have imagined as we are now able to create targeted demographic promotions.”

There is a great deal of talk around the ZEN network as free poker sites continue to pop up all over the web. The use of sweepstake laws has allowed anyone with the cash to create a perfectly legal space to allow people to play the game that they love. These sites are particularly popular with casinos looking to maintain their clientele with free poker action. The sites serve another purpose, the industry is currently preparing for a change in the law and when online poker is legalised Gold’s site and all of the others will switch to being regular poker sites and already will have players ready to spend their cash.