5 Best Reasons To Play Poker Online

5 Best Reasons To Play Poker Online By Marc Weinberg For Online Poker Insider There are a lot more than five reasons to play online poker, but I thought I'd list the five top reasons that make poker online more profitable than poker in your local card room. Reason #5: There is always a game that is right for you That's actually an understatement. When it comes to online poker there are always hundreds of games that are not only right for you, but there for you right now. There is no wait for a table, and once you sit down at the table there is no reason to ever play in a game that is too tough, not your preferred limit, too quiet, or too aggressive. The beauty of online poker is the instantaneous availability of every kind of poker game at every limit. If you want to play in a quick tournament for $100 it is there for you. If your limit is $1 there is a game at those stakes as well. In addition, you can use the lobby of any online poker room to ascertain which games suit your style of play. Reason #4: You gain invaluable poker experience I'm sick and tired of reading about how playing poker online cannot make you a better poker player, it can only make you a better online poker player. Do people really think that the two are that different? The style of play is far looser and objectively worse online as a rule, but so what? The fact that you get to see thousands and thousands of hands provides you with the experience to win at any card room, online or offline. Furthermore, if you are winning at online poker it means that you have discipline, good hand selection, and have seen every possible scenario. Reason #3: Statistics, Statistics, Statistics In your local card room you might recognize three or four familiar faces at your table when you sit down. You might think to yourself that those guys are very tough, and you probably have no choice but to play against them. But with online poker you have the choice to get up and play at another table immediately, and you also have a lot of information about those players and many more like them. You can keep profiles and notes of your opponents, and you can access information about your own play. You don't play the same every session, and to prove this you should look at your own stats. Online poker provides a wealth of statistics, whereby you can monitor your own play and everyone else's play as well. It will make you money if you use it properly, trust me. Reason #2: The big score is finally within reach You could have played at your local card room's $4/$8 game for the rest of your life and never come close to sitting at a world series of poker table, or beating a poker pro that you secretly idolize. Now, with online poker those dreams are within reach, seriously. Poker rooms online are a populist's wet dream - providing everyone with a chance to win a huge event, or at least qualify. Every day, right now in fact, online poker is sending an amateur poker player to a $1 million event, or even a $20 million event, and it cost that player the price of lunch to qualify. Because of the sheer size of these poker rooms they can hold almost limitless satellite events and other feeder tournaments to send thousands of players to the biggest poker tournaments in the world. This isn't a pipe dream, it's online poker reality. Reason #1: The best reason: Online poker is more profitable Someone has to say this and it might as well be me. If you're a good player and you regularly earn $x an hour playing poker you should expect to make $2x an hour playing online poker. There are more hands, weaker players, and so many opportunities to win that it is staggering. Sure you get unlucky sometimes, and sure you only remember the shocking bad beats. That's poker nature. What you fail to remember is all the times that you caught lucky, because in your mind that was just life evening out. Get beyond the justice and play solid poker and you will show a far greater profit as a small to medium level poker player than you could ever manage in any real-world card room. Online poker will enable an entire generation of poker players to turn pro, and it will allow those good players to take the money of the weak. Who needs any other reason to play besides this one?