Online Poker a Gaming Phenomenon or Cheat’s Paradise?
by: Craig Richards
Online poker is rapidly becoming the most popular gambling game anywhere on the internet. It is currently estimated that around 2 million active real money players visit the online poker rooms every month. That amounts to a phenomenal number of people hell-bent on gambling away their hard-earned cash, in the hope of cleaning up at the tables.
Many believe that poker is a game of skill, and while this may bear some truth in the real world, playing poker at the online casinos is anything but skillful. It’s very unlikely that anyone can ever really win and walk away with the pot on any online poker room anywhere. You may win a little here and there and you may beat your opponents from time to time, but the chances of beating the house are absolutely remote.
It’s well known that the world’s greatest poker players don’t ever play online, simply because they know there’s no way to win. Some may say they do, because the online casino companies are paying them to endorse their poker rooms and associated products.
But still the lure of huge possible winnings from well publicized tournaments, keep the masochistic herds flocking back to the tables, to endure more self-inflicted financial pain time and again. Some almost appear to be oblivious to their losses. The only goal they have is to feed their hunger for easy monetary delights at the expense of their bank accounts and their ‘shot-away’ nervous systems.
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Online Poker a Gaming Phenomenon or Cheat’s Paradise?
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