[citation needed] Duplicatepoker.com, the first poker room to use the format, closed down on October 5, 2008, citing the global financial crisis as the reason for the removal of services.
Duplicate Poker was first devised by Californians Bruce Altshuler and Danny Kleinman who memorialized their concept in a lengthy article in Card Player Magazine in August 1993.
The article indicated that for Duplicate Poker to work in a multi-table format, each table had to have the same number of seats with no sit outs on any hand which could distort the final results.
[2] Duplicate poker can be played in Hold Em or Omaha where the final hands are fixed, but not in Stud, where a fold alters the order of the cards.
[3] The object of duplicate poker is to win more chips than your opponents sitting in corresponding seats at other tables.
"[6] From around the world, 72 players made up 12 national teams played within the isolation of the London Eye pods, ensuring that no information could be shared between tables.
[8] Essentially the same game, the IFP describes Match Poker as "a team sport incorporating regular Texas Hold’em.
This team game was conceptually similar to that which was described by Altshuler and Kleinman in their 1993 article in Card Player Magazine.
[8] International Match Poker championships have been run by the IFMP since 2011, with the sport gaining popularity most notably in India via the Match Indian Poker League,[11] launched jointly by the IFMP and Viann Industries Ltd (Raj Kundra's company).
[12] Under the authority of the IFMP, a team in Australia is now developing a mobile application called MATCHPOKER Online.