Online Poker

Online poker is in many ways very different than live poker. One of the big differences is that one isn't required to go into a room with all of their chips. Also, people often go all in when they get bored, which screws the game up for many people.



The requirement of using all of your chips at all times is often enforced when playing with friends. This makes it impossible to go all in, lose, and keep playing. this is very important because going all in can be a very strategic, yet risky maneuver. To hide chips behind your back and go all in would not, in fact, be going all in. Going to a table with a certain amount of chips and holding some back is a very common thing in casinos, however. This aspect makes online poker more like casinos. The difference of casinos and at home play is often that in casinos, one can cash out whenever they want. At home, there are often rules that restrict that rule. Usually, people play until all but one person is out. Third place often gets around what they bought in for, second gets a little more, and first gets the whole rest of the pot. Buying out midplay would mean that someone could make more money than the third place winner in a small amount of time. Also, the first place winner would get less of the pot.



Online poker is offered in many places on the web, both for fun and for money (which is usually fun). The free versions often have a problem when people realize that 3000 chips is worth nothing, and 10 ships is also worth nothing. This leads people to play very riskily and, with the combination of not using all of their money (as previously mentioned), go all in frequently. A good game of online poker has people who are playing to have fun, but also to be fair. I have played a version of online poker on facebook, which actually had some conservative people playing. This increased strategy used in ways such as bluffing. The address to this specific site is www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2389801228. These games are a great waste of time (in the most positive sense of the phrase), and provide many people with cheap entertainment. Though I have never played online poker with real money, I believe that people play with less risk, because of the possibility of losing money.

The different places to play poker effect the game experience, and everyone should take into account who they are playing with and where they are when playing a game of poker.