Online Poker Guide
Who is this Poker Guide for?
This guide is aimed virtually exclusively at the beginner poker player, although there may be useful advice for the experienced player as well. See which one of these categories fit you:
- If you have yet to make your first deposit to an online card room, I suggest you start at the top and work your way through the entire guide. You don't necessarily have to read all of it in one sitting, but at least cover the bankroll bit, so you understand the implication your upcoming deposit has and how you should treat it.
- If you are already playing online but feel uncertain about how to win money you should still read through the bankroll chapter (possibly just briefly) because I feel it's important to have a solid grasp of what the significance of a bankroll is. As it's likely you already have an idea of what different types of games are available, you can then move on to the Studying section.
- If you're an experienced player who's looking for tips and pointers this guide isn't necessarily for you at all, but you can skip directly to the Studying section.
Why Online Poker is Booming
Why is poker suddenly so immensely popular? Is it the televised events? Is it Chris Moneymaker? Is it a natural cycle in games?
I think those things help, but I think it's primarily because poker is a wildly exciting and fun game. Unfortunately, however, this great game has simply been unpractical to play for many of the people who would otherwise enjoy it. Many countries - and many states in America - don't have casinos or poker rooms. At least not legal ones. Getting 6-10 people together for a somewhat meaningful period of time to constitute a session can be difficult. Getting all of these people to agree on limits, type of game, etc, complicates things even further. To add insult to injury, many people have a moral objection to winning money from their friends, which means that they're miserable no matter how the evening turns out: They lose even when they win! But then came the internet, and all of these problems just melted away with the online poker sites. No longer do people have to schedule poker games three weeks from now. They can play whatever limits they feel like - and whatever game they feel like - any time of the day. And they play against anonymous people who they have no emotional attachment to, and can therefore play the game to win without having to feel guilty over taking their best friend's money. I think this is the biggest reason online poker is so successful: The game has always been great, but with online poker rooms the problems associated with the stuff AROUND the game have been resolved.
Because of this, I hold a more optimistic stance than many other players when it comes to the future of online poker: I think online poker is here to stay at - at least - the size it is today and probably a lot bigger still. We're only seeing the beginning.
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