Online poker: is it honest or rigged?
Welcome to Poker Unchecked, finally a book that makes poker easy to understand. This book is the straight talk express without the NY Times article. You want the truth (about online poker), you can't handle the truth.
Online Poker is against the law in the U.S. as far as I know. However, it's not worth enforcing the law since it's a no win situation.
The U.S. government has made it more difficult to deposit online through much bureaucracy. However, there are still many ways to deposit onto an online poker site.
When Online Poker first started just after 2000, the poker games were very good for poker professionals to beat. Though action flops were used, the games were well worth playing and the money easy to make. Though these action flops helped the poor players stay in money, you could consider it like a business tax as they accomplished the following. Good players were taxed on their play without knowing it. The action flop theory will be explained in my new book Poker Unchecked.
On or about November of 2004, robotic online poker players entered the picture on a great scale. Previously, online poker sites hired real people to play and paid them by the hand. The new trend into programmed online poker players made it difficult to beat the online poker games.
Obviously when the online poker sites paid real human beings to play on their site the games were far better and much easier to beat.
However, humans cannot play as paid props anymore. A prop is a player hired by the online poker site to play. He/she play with their own money and get compensated by the number of hands they play. This is no longer the case with the inclusion of programmed players. Who needs to pay for human online poker players when a program can control thousands of players.
Poker players always ask me if online poker can be cheated or if poker players are more likely to cheat online?
To answer that question let's look at a few recent events:
1. Recently the two major online poker sites have disqualified their main event winners for cheating.
2. Absolute Poker was caught cheating high stakes players by having employees seeing all the poker players hole cards and relaying the information to the group of cheats.
My advice is to play online as a recreation and not go too high. Play with money you can afford to lose and look at it as entertainment.
If you are new to online poker tournament play you can certainly improve your basic skills by playing in small online poker tournaments.
I go into online poker in detail in my book, Poker Unchecked.
Poker Unchecked is the book that makes poker fun again.
Poker Unchecked - Russ Georgiev is Poker Unchecked
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Note: This website is not intended to offend anyone who has been involved in professional poker or who has lost money over and over again as a result of poor poker fundamentals - "In order to play poker properly you have to be disciplined.", says Russ Georgiev. "I have played millions of hands and I have seen more poker than any Internet poker player can even imagine. Yes I have played at the highest levels in poker rooms and I have played at the highest levels online. And I explain it all in my book for you to understand and apply to your poker game."