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In recent years internet poker and particularly the Hold em variant of the game has come to dominate our television sets. I am typically asked to comment on the differences in wager on in between internet based poker and land based rooms which I look to set out in this article.

1. Speed of web based poker bet on is roughly twice that of land based poker play. The variety of hands per hour in a land poker site would be circa 30 per hour at finest, maybe as low as 20. Typical internet based poker game would see 50-60 fingers per hour, and anything as much as one hundred twenty per hour for short handed "Turbo" play.

Two. Rake collected by an on-line poker site will be 5 percent or less of each pot whereas land based rooms will be ten per cent or even higher. In this regard web based play could be the far better worth option. Several countries, such as the Great Britain 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 Texas hold em in real world casinos in the UK.

3. The high quality of gambler found in a web poker site will usually be lower than that in real world rooms. There are lots of reasons for this but to truly go to a land based smoky home sitting down at a table of 10 takes an element of confidence that you do not will need in an online poker environment. Traditional players are often much better in that they usually understand the game before 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 have identified occur in Sin City where you receive the full range of extremes from holiday makers attempting their hand with the very best in the world.

4. Web based poker players can pick and choose the time of day they play as they can wager on twenty four hrs a day, seven days a week and do so from the comfort of their own home. Land based players must plan ahead and get to the venue at the due starting time.

5. On line poker gamblers have extra option, in the number and variety of games to opt for from, ranging from free of cost bet on to cash games to tournaments of all sizes. If you would like to win a seat at the upcoming 2006 World Series of Poker, then you need to be looking towards online poker tournaments exactly where a far greater range of options await such as satellite entries from as little as 5 dollars.

Six. Poker Tells between on-line and real world poker bet on are quite different. Brick and mortar players spend much more time observing body language and voice tells through opponent questioning than they do observing time delays among wagers and bet size relative to the possible odds of higher hands. Net Poker Tells have far more to complete with timing, wager size, and table position rather than the judgement of facial expression.

Seven. Poker etiquette is extra disciplined in land based poker rooms. The online 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 a web based poker site and you may well uncover your self on the end of some verbal abuse (via the typed chat system). Phrases such as "you are an idiot" and worse would not be tolerated in a land based place but go largely unchecked internet. You often have the alternative to turn off player chat but my preferred wagering style would be to goad the offending gambler into wagering on tilt (usually a straightforward thing to do). One recourse you do have against abuse is always to report the gambler to the pit boss and they might be either banned from chat or thrown out of the space altogether.

Eight. Web based poker gives you the distinctive capability to bet on extra than one room at a time. Clearly this is not an selection open to brick and mortar players. I know of people today who wager on up to six tables simultaneously.

As you may see both environments have the prospective for a genuinely very good casino game of poker. Various experiences to suit different gambler needs. Personally I do not have a preference in between the two. I worth the convenience of on-line play, but still like the interaction of a live room.