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Poker Games
online poker
Online Poker is played by millions of people around
the world. Tens of thousands play in casinos online. A few thousand
win. Hundreds make most of their income from the game. This site aims to
help people willing to do the work (studying and applying strategic
concepts) to be a winning player.
Poker’s popularity has experienced an unprecedented spike in recent
years, largely due to the introduction of online poker and the invention
of the hole-card camera which finally turned the game into a spectator
sport. Viewers can now follow the action and drama of the game, and
broadcasts of poker tournaments such as the World Series of Poker and
the World Poker Tour have brought in huge audiences for cable and
satellite TV distributors.
So, as long as online poker players do not participate in owning a share
of the house rake; as long as players only wager against each other; as
long as players participate in the skill game of poker and do not bet
sports; as long as players obey state laws... draw your own conclusions.
Conversely, tracking poker play online is easy.
Most online poker rooms support "Hand Histories" text files which track
every action both you and your opponents made during each hand. The
ability to specifically track every single played hand has many
advantages. Many third-party software applications process hand history
files and return detailed summaries of poker play. These not only
include exact tallies of rake and winnings, which are useful for tax
purposes, but also offer detailed statistics about the person's poker
play. Serious players use these statistics to check for weaknesses or
"leaks" (mistakes that leak money from their winnings) in their game.
Such detailed analysis of poker play was never available in the past,
but with the growth of online poker play, it is now commonplace among
nearly all serious and professional online poker players.
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