"Poker Games Online: What Makes Them Unique?"Although poker games online are pretty much identical to live poker games many things are very different. The amount of poker games offered online is huge. Right now as I write this page at 1:24 a.m. pacific time 55,952 poker tables run at once. That’s just cash games from two of the close to 30 real money poker sites. Not to mention all the tournaments and sit & go’s. This means YOU have your pick of the best online poker games literally at your fingertips. You don’t have to drive 100 miles (or more) spend money on gas, food or maybe even a spot to sleep. Just fire up your computer click on your best live online poker site and you’re ready to play! Writing about it even gets me excited!!! Online poker games are very available. You can play anytime and anywhere. Play real money online poker with people around the world. Online poker has made its way into the lives of people in just about every country. It presents the opportunity to get to know someone from a place in the world you may not have been and play poker with them! Where else can you affordably play the pro’s? Or watch pro’s play for large sums of cash? Online poker is the only place most people can. Plenty of times I’ve seen professional poker players play texas hold em poker online for stakes of $0.10-$0.20, $0.25-$0.50 or even play money. This is usually impossible in a live setting as pro’s typically play for stakes where they cant get bombarded by mobs of poker players. Plus watching pro’s play at the $1000-$2000 limit games is only possible online. The only way we could watch them play for these stakes LIVE is if we were in the game. I don’t know about you but I don’t have $20,000 lying around to buy into that big a game. Watching pro’s play is also a great learning tool. If you watch long enough and pay attention you will pick up something useful you can apply to your arsenal of poker tactics. The range of stakes offered in poker games online is unmatched live. You can start online with a $10 bankroll playing $0.01-$0.02 and build it up until you were playing $1-$2 or $5-$10. Heck Tom Dwan started with $50 and now has millions. In a live setting the lowest stakes you could play are $2-$4. An $800 bankroll is the minimum you should start with at $2-$4. So you need a much bigger bankroll live JUST TO GET STARTED. Really you don’t even need a bankroll online. Chris Ferguson showed it was possible to start with $0 and build it up to $10,000. Practice and patients is all it takes. Many poker games online that are difficult to find live. You can play omaha poker online, 7 card stud, badugi and lots more. Try to find those games in a live poker room, its tough! Play multiple tables online is physically unfeasible to do live. Online poker has no limit on the amount of tables you play at once. Some people play 10 tables OR MORE at one time. You could play three tournaments and two real money games at once if you wanted. This takes practice and a large computer screen/multiple screens. Enjoy fast pace poker? Online games are inherently quicker than live because of the lack of a dealer. The computer program deals, pulls in the pot, reads the hands and does all procedures lighting fast compared to a human dealer. If you have a real need for speed Rush Poker is even faster. It was created and is exclusively owned by Full Tilt Poker. Everything in an online poker game is easier to see. Bet amounts are auto displayed, pot amount is displayed, players cards are in plain view. Plus the table is right in front of you making it easier to keep track of action and pay attention. Many things set poker games online apart from live games while others can never be duplicated. The amount of selection online poker offers on every aspect of poker means there is something for everyone. Plus the chance to flip penny’s into millions and pit skills against pro’s is only found at online poker rooms. Whatever game at whatever stake your sure to find it in poker games online! For more links to online poker info check out Poker Directory. Good luck! |
