Online Gambling Poker

by Jerry "Jet" Whittaker
Aug 26, 2006

 

An overview on online gambling poker:

Basically online poker is the game of poker played over the Internet. Due to the availability of the poker game in the internet there has been a dramatic increase in the number of poker players worldwide. Recent surveys carried out by the Department of revenues throughout the United States has shown that for the year of 2005, revenues from online poker were estimated at US $ 200 million per month. Most of the prominent online poker sites offer varied feature to encourage the new players and to promote the popularity of the game. One such common feature among them is to offer tournaments called satellites by which the winners gain entry to real-life poker tournaments. Compared to traditional venues for playing poker, such as casinos and poker rooms online venues are far more because they have much smaller overhead costs. They are also more player friendly and the software provided in them may prompt the player when it is his or her turn to act.

Legality of online poker gambling:

In many countries including several nations in and around the Caribbean Sea and most notably the United Kingdom online poker is legal and regulated. In the United States some states have specific laws against online gambling of any kind. It is also illegal to own an online gaming operation without proper licensing and at present none of the states are granting any such licenses. The U.S. senate passed the internet Gambling prohibition act of 1997 on July 23, 1998. However the act could not become a law as it was not approved by the House of Representatives. Many banks and credit card companies are not allowing direct money transfers to online poker sites because of the legal grayness around online poker. These has given a considerable rise to the business of new online money transfer. These companies transfer the funds directly to the poker site by providing online e-wallets that players can load from a bank account. One prominent advantage of these services is that it makes it very easy for people to transfer money between different poker sites without the money going back to a person’s bank account.

Strategies of online poker:

For a beginner to learn the rules and strategies of online poker it is highly recommended to download an online poker room, and spending time at their play money tables. While playing online a player has plenty of time as the computer has endless patience. Also it will prompt the player whenever their turn comes. The computer will mark what options the player have check, bet, fold or raise and thus making a beginner not to worry about doing the wrong thing.

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