Stages of Online Poker

Technology surrounds us. Things change. And the swiftness of change today is unparalleled in history. Nothing makes poker players more aware of this change than the advent of online poker.

Computers changed everything, from productivity to research to games. Poker games too. You see, along came the Internet and suddenly you could find almost any answer in seconds, be anywhere in the world, instantly; not physically, of course but we learnt we didn't need to be physically present to be there. And so we could play poker without being physically present. We could be at the poker table. Instantly. It is as exiciting as a live poker game. You, will be participating poker on the screen with opponents seated inches away, but knowing they aren't actually inches away. They may be in England or Germany or Hong Kong, everywhere. You can play poker in a game that could have never been possible without the technology.

And so, unexpected and out of nowhere, online poker blew onto the scene. It was like a tornado sweeping down the Texas Panhandle. You could now put poker into two main categories: online poker and real-world poker. You can notice here, also I had read in some book about this term saying "real world" poker and not "real" poker. That's because online poker is real poker. It is certainly real for the hundreds of thousands of new players around the world who are playing for real money! Sometimes I think what is there about online poker that makes it unreal ? I guess not much and that's why I would differentiate poker by just these two terms: online poker and real-world poker.