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In recent years on line poker and particularly the Texas holdem variant of the game has come to dominate our tv sets. I am often asked to comment on the differences in play among online poker and traditional rooms which I look to set out in this article.

1. Speed of web poker play is roughly twice that of brick and mortar poker play. The variety of fingers per hour in a land poker site would be circa 30 per hour at finest, maybe as low as twenty. Typical internet poker game would see fifty to sixty fingers per hour, and anything as much as 120 per hour for short handed "Turbo" play.

2. Rake collected by a web-based poker room will probably be 5 % or less of each pot whereas traditional rooms will likely be ten % or even higher. In this regard web-based wager on will be the superior worth option. A few countries, such as the UK have laws against the taking of rake. Instead they either charge by the hour or by the tournament. This could be the reason that Caribbean Poker is favoured over Holdem in real world betting houses in the UK.

Three. The quality of gambler located in a web based poker room will usually be lower than that in traditional rooms. There are many reasons for this but to truly go to a real world smoky room sitting down at a table of 10 takes an element of confidence that you don’t need in a web based poker environment. Land based gamblers are generally much better in that they usually understand the game prior to wagering it. By way of contrast your average on-line poker newbie has just watched the World Poker Tour on the Travel Channel or ESPN. The only exceptions to this that I’ve discovered occur in Las Vegas exactly where you acquire the full range of extremes from holiday makers attempting their hand with the most effective in the world.

4. Web based poker players can pick and choose the time of day they play as they can play twenty-four hrs a day, five days a week and do so from the comfort of their own home. Traditional gamblers must plan ahead and acquire to the venue at the due starting time.

5. Internet poker players have much more option, in the variety and selection of games to select from, ranging from free of cost play to cash games to tournaments of all sizes. If you want to win a seat at the upcoming 2006 WSOP, then you have to be looking towards net poker tournaments where a far greater range of options await such as satellite entries from as little as five dollars.

Six. Poker Tells amongst online and brick and mortar poker wager on are very different. Real world players spend more time observing body language and voice tells by way of opponent questioning than they do observing time delays among bets and wager size relative to the potential odds of higher hands. Net Poker Tells have a lot more to do with timing, wager size, and table position instead of the judgement of facial expression.

7. Poker etiquette is a lot more disciplined in real world poker rooms. The internet poker understanding can usually be spoiled by drunken fools who believe they have Phil Ivey’s level of skill even though they clearly do not. Catch a lucky card in an internet poker room and you may possibly uncover your self on the end of several verbal abuse (by way of the typed chat system). Phrases such as "you’re an idiot" and worse would not be tolerated in a real world space but go largely unchecked web-based. You usually have the option to turn off player chat but my preferred playing style is to goad the offending player into wagering on tilt (usually a simple thing to complete). One recourse you do have against abuse would be to report the gambler to the pit boss and they will be either banned from chat or thrown out of the space altogether.

8. Internet based poker gives you the distinctive capability to wager on far more than one place at a time. Clearly this isn’t an choice open to real world players. I know of people who play up to six tables simultaneously.

As you may see both environments have the potential for a genuinely great game of poker. Various experiences to suit unique player needs. Personally I don’t have a preference among the two. I worth the convenience of web-based play, except still love the interaction of a live room.