Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Poker rules can be learned by anyone quickly enough. There is really no reason not to try, as online access and interface are easy. The success of online poker is vast. Every online gambling site offers poker games. His livelihood, and friends are acquired by a dedicated player and he becomes part of a community.
All or most poker game varieties are available for download for free. They offer safe practice for the novice. You get to try your hand against p.c. opponents and may adjust difficulty so as to easily experience successive winning, feeling the pleasure of addiction spread through your system like a shot of good liquor.
All online games are played with you cozily in front of your computer. You don't have to worry about minimalizing your body language or reading the faces and posture of some ten human opponents, each with his or her make up, ticks, and poker-face tricks. But despite this fact, the mild fun of perfecting your strategy against software is rather like doing your best at tennis against a wall or shooting up cardboard targets - it is not really comparable to live action. Technically, there may not be much similarity between a gun fight and a game of poker, and you can depend on a professional not to have a sawed-off shotgun pointed at you at the other end of the table, unless you are shooting a Robert Rodriguez movie. But the parallel is warranted since both gun fights and poker for real (as opposed to virtual) money involve a constant sense of danger.
For this reason the games against human opponents are not merely fun, but eerily fun. It is this kind of fun that makes addiction of the most powerful kind. Someone may wonder whether poker is anything more than a game of patience, these people may have never handled anything more dangerous than a game of Spider Solitaire. Besides skill, chance or luck it is important that this is the essence of the game. Pervaded by danger is a live poker session without the possibility to reset only to Fold.
This is precisely what turns many people off. But which also makes as many people feel irresistibly "alive" while betting on the value of their hands. You must have the money, the time, and the energy to spend - but these are controllable factors. You had better be willing to make the effort to learn strategy, but you must also have a lucid and refined appreciation of the element of Chance. A player who does not, and who perhaps approaches the game simply in the crude hope for a few good quick wins will loose and will grow tired of trying. The taste of danger then is sour and one wishes to rinse it out as quickly as possible.
Danger is delicious to the real player, that is why he sits at the computer or table. The player does not indulge in vain fantasies, he knows what is practically within his power. The player knows his stuff and bluff. Just as sheer height is what the rock climber is there for, he or she is there for the chance. In the game the music of chance must be heard, then an unlucky session will have been worth the effort.
All or most poker game varieties are available for download for free. They offer safe practice for the novice. You get to try your hand against p.c. opponents and may adjust difficulty so as to easily experience successive winning, feeling the pleasure of addiction spread through your system like a shot of good liquor.
All online games are played with you cozily in front of your computer. You don't have to worry about minimalizing your body language or reading the faces and posture of some ten human opponents, each with his or her make up, ticks, and poker-face tricks. But despite this fact, the mild fun of perfecting your strategy against software is rather like doing your best at tennis against a wall or shooting up cardboard targets - it is not really comparable to live action. Technically, there may not be much similarity between a gun fight and a game of poker, and you can depend on a professional not to have a sawed-off shotgun pointed at you at the other end of the table, unless you are shooting a Robert Rodriguez movie. But the parallel is warranted since both gun fights and poker for real (as opposed to virtual) money involve a constant sense of danger.
For this reason the games against human opponents are not merely fun, but eerily fun. It is this kind of fun that makes addiction of the most powerful kind. Someone may wonder whether poker is anything more than a game of patience, these people may have never handled anything more dangerous than a game of Spider Solitaire. Besides skill, chance or luck it is important that this is the essence of the game. Pervaded by danger is a live poker session without the possibility to reset only to Fold.
This is precisely what turns many people off. But which also makes as many people feel irresistibly "alive" while betting on the value of their hands. You must have the money, the time, and the energy to spend - but these are controllable factors. You had better be willing to make the effort to learn strategy, but you must also have a lucid and refined appreciation of the element of Chance. A player who does not, and who perhaps approaches the game simply in the crude hope for a few good quick wins will loose and will grow tired of trying. The taste of danger then is sour and one wishes to rinse it out as quickly as possible.
Danger is delicious to the real player, that is why he sits at the computer or table. The player does not indulge in vain fantasies, he knows what is practically within his power. The player knows his stuff and bluff. Just as sheer height is what the rock climber is there for, he or she is there for the chance. In the game the music of chance must be heard, then an unlucky session will have been worth the effort.
About the Author:
The author is a successful limit cash game player. He plays poker online and receives Rakeback at Victory Poker and Rakeback at Power Poker.