Using Online Poker to Benefit Live Poker
Below is a list of variables that can help in deciding whether or not online poker is for you:
1. The comfort level you have that the online poker cardroom will pay the winners and not abscond with player deposits
2. Whether or not online poker is clearly legal, clearly illegal, or somewhere in uncharted and muddy waters where you live. The answer varies from country to country and from state to state, and in quite a few places the answer is not at all clear. As a subsidiary issue, if you live in either a clearly illegal jurisdiction, you need to make a personal decision about whether or not you’re willing to play. To this point, the only people who have gotten into trouble are site operators and/or owners, and in a couple of rare cases, where the activity was used as a "back door" to go after someone wanted for far more serious crimes
3. How comfortable you are with an online poker site’s customer service, including but not limited to how proactive the site is in seeking out and barring colluders, abusive players (usually a removal of chat privileges is enough on this one), and players who are clearly abusing the all-in maneuver when they want to see their hand to the end but don’t want to invest any more money in it.
4. What you think your poker strengths and weaknesses are: a player whose winning talents are based almost entirely on what seems to border on a preternatural ability to “read” opponent tells is probably much better off playing brick and mortar; someone who lacks a good poker face and realizes that his technical skills far outweigh his people skills is probably much better off playing online.
5. How far you live from legal cardrooms, and/or how much easy access there is to private games where you are comfortable with the stakes, the variety of games played, the probability of facing cheaters, unhappy spouses, cleaning up arrangements, the probability of a loser’s check clearing, and the probability of the game getting hijacked (robbed) or busted by the authorities.
1. The comfort level you have that the online poker cardroom will pay the winners and not abscond with player deposits
2. Whether or not online poker is clearly legal, clearly illegal, or somewhere in uncharted and muddy waters where you live. The answer varies from country to country and from state to state, and in quite a few places the answer is not at all clear. As a subsidiary issue, if you live in either a clearly illegal jurisdiction, you need to make a personal decision about whether or not you’re willing to play. To this point, the only people who have gotten into trouble are site operators and/or owners, and in a couple of rare cases, where the activity was used as a "back door" to go after someone wanted for far more serious crimes
3. How comfortable you are with an online poker site’s customer service, including but not limited to how proactive the site is in seeking out and barring colluders, abusive players (usually a removal of chat privileges is enough on this one), and players who are clearly abusing the all-in maneuver when they want to see their hand to the end but don’t want to invest any more money in it.
4. What you think your poker strengths and weaknesses are: a player whose winning talents are based almost entirely on what seems to border on a preternatural ability to “read” opponent tells is probably much better off playing brick and mortar; someone who lacks a good poker face and realizes that his technical skills far outweigh his people skills is probably much better off playing online.
5. How far you live from legal cardrooms, and/or how much easy access there is to private games where you are comfortable with the stakes, the variety of games played, the probability of facing cheaters, unhappy spouses, cleaning up arrangements, the probability of a loser’s check clearing, and the probability of the game getting hijacked (robbed) or busted by the authorities.
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