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Long-time online poker players will likely remember the name PokerRoom.com  (along with other sites like Planet Poker, Paradise Poker, and Hollywood Poker) as one of the forerunners to today’s online poker giants, but few of us took notice when PokerRoom.com decided to close its doors some two years ago, quietly fading into the scrap-heap of other defunct online poker rooms.

Now it appears the site is ready to re-launch after a break of more than two years –much like Americas Cardroom recent return, another original but then defunct brand, a few months ago. For PokerRoom.com, a once powerful brand in the industry, the  initial decline began after watching its traffic numbers steadily fall after it was forced to pull out of the US-market following UIGEA passage in 2006 (PokerRoom.com was then a member of the OnGame Poker Network).

The rumors of the return of PoekrRoom.com began on the PokerFuse website, after the following Tweet was issued by Bwin’s SEO Manager Josef Rantamäki:

“Wow! www.pokerroom.com will be relaunched and once again offer real money poker games,”

PokerRoom.com left the market on good terms with its players, as the remaining players and all of their funds were moved to bWin (which shares the OnGame Network with PokerRoom) when the site shut-down in 2009, leaving the door open for an eventual return.

It will be interesting to see what the justification for reopening PokerRoom.com is for bwin.party, considering the now merged gaming giants have been shopping the entire OnGame Network since the merger –the superior Party Poker brand making the OnGame Poker Network redundant.