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More players play poker online in a single day than play live action poker in an entire month. More games are offered online each day then can be dealt on all the live poker tables on the planet and more poker tournaments go off every hour online than every week in all the poker rooms in the world. Online poker is a phenomenon that continues to grow every day.
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The Internet allows players from anywhere in the world to log on to dozens of poker sites and play against players from everywhere in the world. Because of the redundancy of the software, games can be spread in any variation of poker at nearly any limit a player could desire. Whether you want to play micro limits starting at a penny or take on real professional players for $1,000/$2.000; the Internet makes that possible.
The flexibility of online software also means that games not usually found in live action card rooms are dealt every day on the internet: Omaha, Stud, Badugi, Deuce-to-Seven, Five Card Draw and Crazy Pineapple are all available 24/7 on the various internet poker sites
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Another significant advantage of online play is that you are not limited to a single game as you are in live action. Multi-tabling is common among Internet poker players with experienced players often playing six to ten tables simultaneously. Online poker players will boast that they see more hands in a week than live action players will see in a year. Even a single table will deliver 50% to 75% more hands an hour than any live dealer could deal.
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Perhaps tournament poker is the most effected by the availability of online action. If you join just two or three of the largest online poker sites, you literally could begin a poker tournament any minute of any day, all day, every day. Because of the sophistication of the software, tournaments can run with thousands of players and move along much more smoothly and without the dealer errors we experience in a casino card room. The online game is nearly error-free compared to live tournament action.
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The tournament satellite system online has been raised to such level of excellence that you can play your way into to a large buy-in tournaments for less than a penny on the dollar. Multiple satellites are offered for nearly all major online tournaments as well as online qualifiers for live action tournaments like the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour. Chris Moneymaker’s victory at the 2003 WSOP is often credited with the beginning of the poker boom. Chris won his entry online in a $35 satellite tournament.
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Nearly every online poker site also offer a “free” side, where you can learn new poker games and practice your skills until you feel ready to enter a cash game or tournament. The free sites also allow you to become familiar with how the software works before you invest any of your own bankroll.
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