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Why Play Poker Online |
With the explosion in popularity poker has seen in recent years, playing poker online has become one of the top pastimes for hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.
Why exactly is it better to play online than in live games? Is it better at all?
From the beginner's perspective, online poker is the only way to get a reasonable start in the game. Why, it has so much to offer for newbies, from so many different perspectives, that one would have to be a fool to ignore all these advantages.
For starters, online poker doesn't imply any additional costs. One needs to travel to a live poker room, pay parking there, pay consumption and who knows what else comes up along the way. To play in an online poker room, all one needs to do to is fire up the old PC, sign up, and hit the play money feature to get to really know the game and the interface. No deposit is required to play, at least not for the play money section. In a live poker room, you will find no play money, it's all serious business there. Because there are more and more online poker rooms surfacing each day, the competition for players is increasing all the time. This prompts online poker operators to come up with ever more generous sign-up bonuses, free bankrolls and rakeback deals. While this may hurt the competition, players have only to gain from it. These days it is entirely possible to have a real money online bankroll started from scratch, without ever depositing any money.
On top of opportunities like that, online poker offers far further reaching benefits. Take rakeback for instance. There is no such thing in live poker, and it represents a huge edge. By signing up to a rakeback deal, players get a percentage of the rake they pay to the room back. Multi-tabling is also available online in order to allow players to milk the small edges they can get at the micro-limit tables. Micro limit tables cannot be found in live poker rooms either, so the "tuition" that you will pay there is much heftier. The rake collected in live rooms is much bigger too.
There are quite a few differences in play as well, between live and online poker. In small stakes online poker, one needs to play his cards rather than his opponents. In live poker, where there are no micro limits, playing the player is the only way to go.
Payout-wise, live poker games are much more rewarding though. As a beginner, you're better off sticking to online poker. Even as an advanced player, you'll do much better there. If you're thinking about turning pro though, you should indeed buy into some of the high-prize pool live events that can single handedly change your life in case you land in a good money position. |
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