Titan Poker player ‘ChipLieder’ was last night awarded a seat at the ECPokerTour event in Barcelona in March. The journey from Germany won’t take too long, but we hope he can outlast the competition and perhaps go on to win the tournament. Congratulations and Good luck!

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From the inception of playing poker online, the game has undergone a change for life. Mortar and brick casino games are so saturated with hassles for a novice who’s playing poker for the first time that it was reserved for the rich businessmen only.

Making online poker available to beginners is a good idea because then they can play the game for fun. The play for fun type of poker doesn’t stop with eradicating the fear that newbie’s feel while playing; it also helps them master the game without causing significant damage to their purses.

– Tracing the game play while playing Fun Online Poker

Novices and beginners are required to track the play. In the usual casino poker, it is more challenging to track plays. While playing the conventional poker, it becomes easy to track ones winnings, although knowing details on every aspect of his game is tough.

One will not be able to know about the entire hand history, but if one wish to, then he or she should make a note after each hand. This makes tracking in the brick and mortar casino poker games very distracting and time consuming.

While playing poker in play for fun format, it becomes easy for novices to track one’s game. Almost all the ‘play for fun’ web sites have an option known as hand history. It is an option that helps a player track all the poker actions that a he / she or his counterpart makes.

This facility of tracking each hand in poker games played online is a boon in disguise in many ways. Almost all the software applications are able to process one’s hand histories in a play for fun type of game, and return’s detailed summaries to every play.

While playing online poker games, tracking plays include not only the exact statistics of every winning and rake. The tallies of every winning and rake are useful for purposes regarding taxes.

This variety of poker also provides the detailed responses of a poker game. The novices who are keen on improving their game may utilize these statistics for identifying their weaknesses.

Such statistics may also help in keeping an eye on ‘leaks’ of player’s in playing for fun poker. When person’s winnings are lost due to a mistake that he committed, it is known as a leak.

Analysis as detailed as this was unavailable earlier in the playing for fun genre of poker.But with the propagation of ‘playing for fun’ type poker, it has become a regular feature among serious players of poker.

– Advantages in Playing for Fun Poker games

A usual tradition in the conventional casinos is that they provide faithful customers with food, accommodations and their merchandise free of cost!

But playing for fun type of poker, which is played online, has introduced a new innovative method to reward their loyal clients. The poker room’s online reward valued customers by means of deposit bonuses. The client is given a bonus code which is to be entered while placing a deposit in an account. This bonus code can either add a percentage or may set an amount of bonus chips in which is added with the original amt of deposit.

Excluding this, many playing for fun poker rooms are hiring important managers who can develop new methods to make their faithful and loyal players happy.

– The playing for fun poker compatibility

Many playing for fun poker rooms comes with Microsoft Windows software that can be easily downloaded. However, such Microsoft software needs a software emulator for it to function on Linux and Mac’s.

However, many playing for fun poker rooms have customers who run their games on a Mac or Linux.

– Poker Portal On the net

The poker portal online is a site that provides info about poker. These poker portals online contains poker news, results of poker tournaments, strategies for poker and reviews about poker.

Many of the poker portals that are on the net contain a very large amount of content that deals with poker; but still there are other sites which are available just to function as mere go-between or conduits to web sites other than it. Such sites contain the regular playing for fun type of poker rooms which helps in molding the beginners and novices to the actual brick and mortar casinos.

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It is approximately two hundred years since poker has been introduced but the poker that is being called online poker is a recently introduced phenomenon. Though online poker is of recent origin, it has gained popularity at a very fast pace and is now played all over the world with a new perception.

Online sportsbooks were the first to be introduced in the internet and they were followed by many, one among them being online poker. Online casinos were also introduced in the mid 90s, the same time when sportsbooks reached the internet. Microgaming, that came up in the early 90s is a good example and has now become a casino software developer.

In 1998, Planet poker entered the scene and was the first to create an online poker gambling rooms. It was the first and the last of its kind for quite long. With passage of time, many new and big poker sites reached the net carrying a maximum rate of about 3 dollars with an initial rake of five percent. The industry was recognized only in 1998 but it noteworthy that the rates have been almost the same.

In 1999, Paradise Poker was created and this has now become the leader in industry. It was around this time that Dutch Boyd created Poker Spot.

Though Poker spot is the pioneer in running poker tournaments online, they faced whole lot of problems. The group did not collect the deposits of the players from its credit card partners. The company did not remit the winnings of the players as all deposits it held, were not returned. This resulted in their fall.

The introduction of the Netellers e-cash system has reduced the repetitions of the problems encountered by the Poker spot group in other poker players. The online poker groups are provided with funds from the Neteller system. The Netellers e-cash system frees the players from the trouble of using the wire transfer or credit card to deposit money in order to enter the poker group. This has helped in the minimization of frauds and improved the credibility of the company.

In the year 2001, online poker industry welcomed the entry of the two giant firms, Party Poker and Poker Stars. Paradise was on the lead until 2003, when they were overtaken by Party Poker due to the latter’s strategic advertising. The launch of World Poker Tour along with the Party Poker Million strategies attracted a lot of people and drove the group to success.

Chris MoneyMaker also contributed a lot to the popularity and growth of online poker. He was charged with 40 dollars to enter the poker room. He won the satellite tournament conducted by the Poker stars and was qualified for the final and the main event. He won the topmost prize of 2.5 Million dollars in a game considered to be one of the biggest of the World’s Series of Poker tournaments and in which about 839 participants had contested.

The creation of the site www.pokertips.org made online poker more accessible to all people especially to those who were new to the field of online poker. In 2004, that is one year after the launch of the site, the game became very popular with the fascinating story of Mr. Moneymaker adding another feather to its cap. The companies pocketed huge amounts and there were other entrants like Noble Poker and the Full Tilt Poker to the industry as well.

Sportingbet , a listed sportsbook acquired Paradise Poker and this contributed to the growth of gambling industry. A lot of companies considered listing in the stock market as it helped them get funds to aid expansion of their business.

The United Kingdom has passed a legislation which states that gambling is legal.

Today we have a lot of sites that educate people who are new to the industry on the game. They aid in developing the skills of the beginners and making them professionals. Here are a few books on online poker: the Super System which is by Doyle Brunson, the Hold ‘em Poker for the Advanced Players and this is by Sklansky,Malmuth, the Killer Poker which is by John Vorhaus and Texas Holdem which is by Ken Warren. You are advised to learn the basic skills and the poker theory from experts.

Some of the best Online Poker Sites

Texas Holdem Poker
StudStrategy
Low Limit Omaha
Poker School Online at www.pokerschoolonline.com
Ichiban Poker
Poker Performance Psychology
PlayWinningPoker.com and www.playwinningpoker.com
The Gamblers Edge at www.thegamblersedge.com
Poker Pro Association
Low Limit Holdem at www.lowlimitholdem.com
PokerStrategy
Poker Pages at www.pokerpages.com

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An online type of poker training is the poker aides. These aides help you to get better in the online poker games. With the help of the online type of poker training, you can get to learn lots of lessons that are useful for improving your poker game online.

These poker aides online can not help you into transforming into a professional players at poker as for that you need a hell lot of experience and massive amount of studying. The poker aides online help give you the self-esteem and confidence which is required to start playing the low limit poker in exchange for real cash and also to enjoy an interesting online poker game.

Poker aides on the net can also be taken as poker schools. Most of the discussions are about mass hysteria the online poker can cause.

Lots of tips for playing and many types of poker strategies can be found in the online poker aides. It’s just like learning ABC’s in school. So, go now and avail the online poker aides to get your online poker started.

As soon as you have finished that course, later, like a normal school, you jump of to the following level. The aides will later tell you about the various differences that are there between playing poker in real and playing poker online. You can also learn the possibilities of losses or winnings you are likely to get when you are playing online poker. The trick of bluffing also becomes different when playing online poker from when you’re playing real poker with actual people.

Actually, there aren’t many differences between playing poker online and playing poker in real. Many people do not realize that they are not just losing the small dollar sign symbols that are there on their monitors but they are also losing real money. Due to this a number of the poker rooms available on the net make some big bucks and will continue to make more big bucks.

So remember that when you’re playing online, it doesn’t mean it’s not real. It is so easy to withdraw money for playing at tables such that it makes you ask yourself whether playing poker in real world is less real than playing poker online.

To forget about bluffing is one of the things that the poker aide teaches you about. Bluffing is definitely one thing that should be struck out of your list of strategies. Speaking strategically, playing poker tournaments in real is more different than playing poker online.

Traditionally, online poker is being called a game of skill as you can call bluffs and also bluff your self. It requires a very high amount of skill to act as well as see bluffs and it is also necessary to learn and complete a lesson that needs a lot of courage. The skill of bluffing is very important when you are going to play a game of poker in real as you will be taking on real people with stamina and thinking, face to face.

Unlike that, it doesn’t make much of a difference with playing poker online. The poker aides also include teaching you how to perform a bluff before entering into a game of poker online. Don’t forget that, although bluffing is a low level act, you have no option but to use it at times.

But make sure you make only small buffs. With the fact that most of the bluffs you call are also small, there can be a huge chance of an opponent calling out your bluffs.

Not only do these poker aides teach you, they also help when you are stuck up with some really tough poker trouble.

You have a high probability of winning the jackpot as the last person standing in the games at casinos when there is an unsuited seven and two. Try to tighten up the game to its maximum. When you are playing with only suited picture cards and in a state at which a mistake committed doesn’t turn the tables of the game then you know the game is really tight.

Online Poker Bonus is one alluring thing that attracts many gamblers to go online to play poker from the comfort of their home. All online poker rooms give poker bonuses to their players. The amount of bonus may vary from casino to casino. There are three kinds of online poker bonuses available at online casinos.

No Deposit Bonus - This online poker bonus does not need any money deposit. After signing up for an online Poker Room that offers a ‘No Deposit Bonus’ as per the instructions, the account gets credited with online poker bonus within just 72 hours. Well, it depends on room to room, some credit within 48 hours. The ‘No Deposit’ bonus can range from $3 up to $50. This kind of ‘Poker Bonus’ is great if a player is new to the poker scene. A new player can practice with real money without any risk of loosing money. However, the downside is that the player is not able to take part of the first deposit bonus if he makes a deposit and then plays with his own money. Poker Rooms do not allow any player to have more than one account at a time.

First Deposit Bonus – This online poker bonus is a bonus that is given by a Poker Room based on the size of the first deposit. Mostly the first deposit bonus is a 100% bonus with the first deposit that a player makes. For instance, if a poker room offers a 100% bonus on the first deposit for a deposit of $200 maximum, it means if a player deposits an amount of $200, an extra $200 will be given to him. But getting this online poker bonus in real is not that easy. Well, the bonus is surely awarded to the player after the first deposit, but it remains in his account and he cannot use the bonus until he meets certain requirements – that are better known as ‘Wagering Requirements’. Now, these requirements vary from room to room for poker. For instance, the “Tower Gaming” poker room offers a first deposit bonus with a very low wagering requirement; a player needs to generate only 5 player points for every $ as an online poker bonus. This means that it needs a sum of 1000 player points to be able to clear that $200 online poker bonus.

If a player plays a ‘Sit and Go’ tournament, then this online poker bonus equals to rake back of 100% as the player is awarded 5 player points for every dollar paid as tournament fee. Another one ‘PokerLoco’, offers a great opportunity to the players to get a 100% bonus on the first deposit for a max deposit of $250. The best part is that the online poker bonus can be cleared at 5 player points per bonus dollar.

Reload/Freeload Bonus – This kind of poker bonus is usually offered as an additional online poker bonus. This is also called a ‘freeload’ or ‘reload’ bonus. The main difference between these two online poker bonuses is that with a reload poker bonus, it needs an additional deposit to the account, while the ‘freeload’ poker bonus is credited automatically when a poker bonus code is entered on the site. The ‘FreeLoad’ bonus is offered every month at some Poker rooms. The ‘Freeload’ bonus is usually cleared at 10 player point per bonus dollar.

So, go ahead and grab some online poker bonuses and jump to the tables!

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