If you like poker you should be playing online poker instead of the old fashioned brick and mortar poker. Playing online has a lot of advantages versus playing offline and here we list 10 of them.
1)Comfort: Playing from home is much better than having to go to a place to play poker. You haven’t got to dress and you can play poker in your favorite underwear while sitting at your favorite seat. This is priceless.
2)Availability: Online poker sites are open 24/7 and have no restriction of time. If you go to a land based casino you have to go to set hours to be able to play or maybe you go and the table is full, so you have to wait. At an online poker site there are always tables with empty seats and if there aren’t you can make your own table and wait for other players to join you.
3)Range of stakes: When you play at land based casinos or at any house there is a fixed amount of stakes. Some casinos have a range of stakes too, but they do not vary from 1c to $100. At online sites you can play a wider range of stakes according to your bankroll.
4)Safety: Playing poker online is safer than doing it the old school way. The money is always real and nobody is able to scam or cheat you. It is possible to cheat at brick and mortar games, but not online.
5)Money in advance: Nobody is going to bet money they haven’t got in an online game. The money is always paid in advance.
6)Not being seen: When you are playing brick and mortar poker you have to keep your “poker face” and hide your emotions. While being at home you can dance if you want when you win or pray on your knees for your opponent to fold at your bluff… nobody is going to watch you.
7)Not having to see or hear your opponents: Some people get very mad when they lose money and start insulting, cursing and that kind of things. If they do online you can just ignore them by a single click or call a moderator, also you don’t have to see their faces.
8 )Avoid card counting: When you play with a deck in somebody’s house, the dealer may not shuffle the cards properly. The random number generator of online poker sites work perfectly and is 100% accurate.
9)Easiness to count your winnings / losses: By hitting a simple click you know how much are you winning or losing. When you are playing land based you have to make several counts.
10)Leave whenever you please: If you are playing with your friends and you win a fair amount of money they will get mad if you run with their money. At online places you sit at tables or leave at your convenience and if somebody doesn’t like it you haven’t got to hear him.
I play online, I like to think that my poker skills are pretty good, I win alot of the games that I enter, the only part of my game that isn’t good at all is my poker face, I’m one of those people who are terrible at lying, I smile or give off some other drastic indication, this is why playing online poker is great for me, I can pull what ever faces I want and no one is the wiser.