Poker: Online Poker Versus
Regular Poker
If you are new
to playing poker, then one decision you may have to make is whether you want
to go to a casino to play live poker, or play at an online poker room. This
article (and site really) is specifically about texas holdem poker. Most
likely some of the topics covered here could apply to other poker games but
holdem is our poker game of choice. We will cover some strengths of playing
online including play poker for fun, online holdem tournaments, micro limits
and more hands per hour. Then we will also cover some strengths of playing
in brick and mortar live games including how loose the games are, the level
of skill of the other players, seeing a person face-to-face, and sheer
overall fun/excitement.
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Online Poker Rules Versus Casino Live Poker Rules
Texas Holdem is technically the same game regardless of whether you play
online or in a casino. You won't find many differences in rules between the
poker games you find in a typical casino/cardroom compared the rules in an
online poker room. That means if you learn in one, then most likely you
won't have to learn any new rules to play in the other. There may be a few
things specific to each cardroom or online site but usually it is pretty
much identical. Some of the these features might include "kill games", a
different blind structure or promotional features. A kill game is a poker
game in which if a player wins two consecutive hands the next hand is twice
the limit/stakes as the previous. This continues until the person loses. So
if you were playing a $5/10 game it would jump to a $10/20 game for the next
hand and it would stay there until the "killer" didn't win the hand. As far
as promotion features go, some cardrooms and online sites have jackpots for
high hands, bad beat jackpots or even "rack attacks" where they place a rack
of chips in the pot and whoever wins the next hand gets it all. So if both
online poker rules and casino poker rules are usually identical then is it
worth even writing about the other differences? I think so. I've played a
lot of both online texas holdem and regular texas holdem at
casinos/cardrooms and it is much different. Which venue you choose to learn
and play in will matter and this article will try to explain the main
differences.
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