Playing Online

So here it is. I am finally going to get to it. Online Poker playing is by far the easiest way to play. No schedules to coordinate. You don’t have to get dressed. You don’t need to smell good, or hope that the guy next to you doesn’t, literally, stink when you finally sit down at the casino tables.

Playing poker online is a great hobby. Granted, there are inherent risks, such as losing all your money to better players. But once you finally “get it” and play well, you always expect to win when you sit down.

Let’s get started.

There are two sites that I currently recommend. PartyPoker.com and PokerStars.com. Both of these establishments, from what I’ve seen, run fair, easy to use sites. I primarily play at PartyPoker, and all my references will be for that site.

I would love to play at PokerStars.com though. If you get some luck, and play well, they have MANY satellite tournaments for WSOP qualifying. As said earlier, 316 players of the 2600+ at the WSOP qualified through PokerStars.com. The past 2 WSOP winners play, and qualified, at PokerStars.com.

If you are looking for a relatively inexpensive way to “maybe” qualify for the WSOP, PokerStars is the site you should check out.

They also have $.01/.02 (one cent/two cent) games of limit Hold’em. It’s like playing for play money, only there is a bit of cash on the line, so it’s a bit more realistic. The stats they keep are awesome too. It is a great site, and fast becoming the #1 site for poker.

Which leads me to PartyPoker.com.

PartyPoker IS the #1 site online for Poker. Any and ALL poker. 24/7/365 you can find a game, especially at the lower buy-ins. This site is simple on the eyes, and runs, pretty much, glitch-free.

There are only a couple of things I dislike about PartyPoker. I dislike that their lowest end sit ‘n go (SNG) game is $5+1, and their lowest limit game is $.50/$1. At PokerStars, you can literally play for pennies while you learn. Plus, PokerStar’s SNG games are all right in line. The $5 is $5+.50, the ten-dollar is $10+1. PartyPoker is $10+1, and the five-dollar game is $5+1. What that means is that you are giving $1 to the house in the five and the ten-dollar SNG’s at PartyPoker, whereas PokerStars only takes 10%. Plus PokerStars only has 9 people at a table, whereas PartyPoker has 10. One less guy to knock out makes a BIG difference. That ends what I dislike about PartyPoker.

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