This article will tell you why you should play Online Poker instead of Live Poker if your goal is to make as much money as possible playing Poker.



When online poker came, many players in the beginning were very skeptical against online poker, because they thought it wasn’t real poker. Well, just after a short period of time you would see these live poker pros changes to online poker. I will give you eight good reasons for playing online poker instead of live poker.









1. Convenience

Maybe you don’t live near a casino or a poker club so you can’t get games whenever you want. You can play online poker whenever you want too. You will also be able to play wherever you want too, maybe in your swimming pool, or on your balcony. It's just your imagination that set the limits. All you need is a laptop with a internet connection.



2. Less rake

If you compare online poker rake to live poker rake you will find a big difference there too. In some of the lower stake games in casinos they take more than $6 in rake!



Online you won’t find any poker room charging their players with more than $3 in rake, that’s the cap for almost every poker room.



3. Hands per hour

If you have played live I guess you have experienced how slow these games could be sometimes. You will play an average of 20-30 hands per hour in Live Poker games. In Online Poker games you usually play an average of 70-100 hands per hour, and by playing online you will increase your hourly rate.



4. Multi tabling

This is another good reason for start playing poker online. You have already read about the big different in hands per hour, and by playing online you will have the opportunity to play up to 20 tables at a time and just for fun we could compare how many more hands you play per hour then live if you played 6 tables. 6*((70+100)/2)-((20+30)/2) = 485 more hands per hour. Well that difference says it all; it’s a lot more profitable playing online.



5. Game selection & Table selection

Have you experienced the problems with finding tables for the game you want to play in live poker? Well this won’t be a problem at all online, if you chose one of the bigger online poker networks you will find any type of games open 24/7. You will also have the opportunity to choose which opponents you want to play against. This is a problem in live poker because it’s maybe just one table open for the game or stake you want to play in, and in that game it’s just typical grinders or with other words a non profitable table. Online you won’t have problems choosing tables with a lot of fishes in, just look at the average pot and players per flop percentage that every poker room offers. Those numbers will tell you a lot of how much action there is on the table.



6. Micro & low limit

You won’t find any micro and low limit poker games in casinos, but If you do find a micro/low limit table be prepared for the stack getting killed by the rake.



7. Dealers

In live poker you will sometimes see dealers that exposes cards, shuffles bad and those who are very slow, that won’t happen in online poker. The cards get well shuffled directly and dealt very fast.



8. Tools

There are a whole bunch of tools you can use on your computer such as Poker Tracker, Poker Office and much more. These tools will help you taking your poker game to the next level.



So if you haven't tried out online poker I advise you to try it out as soon as possible. I’m certain that you will like it.

By: Marcus Vretling Pistelli

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