Differences of Online Poker from Conventional Poker

Online poker gaming has substantial differences from conventional, in-person poker gaming. The most transparent difference is that players do not sit head to head in-person in poker table in a poker room and for that there is no chance of making decisions based on the body languages and movements of opponents.  Rather online poker players focus more on the reaction time, betting patterns, opponent’s fold/flop percentages to make best possible decisions.

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Online poker does not take time for dealing and shuffling and rather it is an instantaneous process which takes less time than traditional in-person poker gaming. So an online poker player needs to be a fast decision maker than the traditional poker players. Ninety to hundred hands per hour is nothing uncommon in online poker table.

Expense is another thing that differs from traditional poker gaming as online poker is cheaper to play than conventional poker. Although rack shapes online might not differ from those in traditional brick and mortar operations, most other expenses entailed by traditional casino poker in any live room do not exist in online poker. As online poker players play from their home, they are not to spend any penny as transportation cost. In online poker there is no necessity of any employee to run chips and shuffle the cards. 

In traditional brick and mortar poker, any player can only increase his or her chance of winning by increasing his or her limit whereas in online poker almost all the poker stations allows a player to play in more than one table to increase his or her earnings.

One of the most important differences is most of the online poker stations allow the players to learn from online poker schools that teaches the necessary basics of poker and this speed up the learning ability of the beginners.

At the end I won’t say that online poker gaming is completely different from traditional brick and mortar poker; rather I would say that it has some benefits at the same time has lack of excitement of playing in person casino poker. So no conclusion regarding good and bad is necessary as both are poker and both are fun of gambling.