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Casino Poker and Poker Online If you want to learn poker or if you want to begin playing poker, which should you choose and use: a casino (real, live, brick-and-mortar type of casino) or an online poker room? What’s the difference between the two? Casino Poker When playing poker in a casino, you’d have to exchange your money for chips, go to the room or section of the casino that’s dedicated to poker games and find your table. Then you play poker as usual. Poker etiquette is much more important in real casinos than online, though. For instance, you really can’t be too loud so control your urges to laugh out loud or to keep up a constant stream of chatter. This would soon annoy everyone else in the table – especially if you’re playing with the high-roller types. In a real casino, you also have to tip the serving people. If you request more chips or if you order drinks, you should remember to adequately tip the serving person who responds. Generally, an adequate tip would be one of the smallest denominations of chips ($1 should be enough) for every interaction (one when you order and one when you get served). However, if you are playing at a higher-stakes table, you’re expected to give more. In a real casino, you should also be organized. Do not splash the chips in the table and organize your chips in easy-to-count stacks when betting. Furthermore, follow all the rules such as saying out loud what you are doing – say raise or call before you put the corresponding chips on the table. Poker Online To play poker online, you need to register, download the poker software, deposit your money, go to the virtual casino lobby, choose your table, and start playing. That’s pretty basic and is quite similar to playing in real casinos except in the matter of registration. After that, though, you would soon begin to realize that online poker rooms are a different playing environment altogether. In online poker rooms, you can be as loud as you want – nobody would hear you. In cases where you’re a veritable chatterbox in the poker room’s chat box, the other players can simply tune you out by closing their chat box windows. In brick-and-mortar poker rooms, you need your poker face (or your sunglasses if you have no poker face worth using) to hide what you’re thinking and feeling. Online, however, you may look as worried or as elated as you’re feeling – nobody would see you. Online poker players are also a bit more tolerant especially if you play in a table with other beginners. Thus, you can make mistakes and other players will understand. The best thing about online casinos however, as I’m sure some people would tell you, is that you’re not required to give anyone a tip. |
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