Online poker vs. Real life Casino?

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This is the question about the poker players…
What are the disadvantages and advantages of online poker and Real life casino???
Where do you find the more newcomers that are easy to beat??
And overall which would you recommend?
Online or Real casino for Poker???
 
I know people who play online poker as a group. They chat by phone and tell each other what cards they have. The weakest hands fold. So who ever else is at the table is at a big disadvantage. Play for real is my vote
 
Real (casino) poker if you know the ins and outs. especially how to see if someone is bluffing.
Online, if you are a newbie. I used to love playing online, especially tournaments and sit'n'go. But in the long run it becomes quite boring, without real life interaction, at least for me.
 
something happened to me yesterday that raised a question about real life poker versus online.

played at bovada- first hand i sit in and get pocket kings- flop comes k-7-2 i bet 10 dollars he goes all in for 50 i call
then at this point it shows the cards before the turn and the river- he has 76 so i am about 99 percent favorite well turn comes 7 and river comes 7 only thing that could happen to beat me no other outcome could beat me - now i have played poker online and real for over 20 years i have never encoutered this - i know that it happens alot that you just get beat by river or just bad luck but this outcome is unbeleivable odds to loose and i think it only happens in online , i heard bad beats and bad stories but the odds are different. in my lifetime of playing cards i would never see this happen in real (odds is like winning lottery ) :)
 
something happened to me yesterday that raised a question about real life poker versus online.

played at bovada- first hand i sit in and get pocket kings- flop comes k-7-2 i bet 10 dollars he goes all in for 50 i call
then at this point it shows the cards before the turn and the river- he has 76 so i am about 99 percent favorite well turn comes 7 and river comes 7 only thing that could happen to beat me no other outcome could beat me - now i have played poker online and real for over 20 years i have never encoutered this - i know that it happens alot that you just get beat by river or just bad luck but this outcome is unbeleivable odds to loose and i think it only happens in online , i heard bad beats and bad stories but the odds are different. in my lifetime of playing cards i would never see this happen in real (odds is like winning lottery ) :)

I AGREE THERE WAY MORE THAT WE HONEST PLAYERS ARE UP AGAINST THAT WE CAN IMANGINE IN CAPS :(
 
something happened to me yesterday that raised a question about real life poker versus online.

played at bovada- first hand i sit in and get pocket kings- flop comes k-7-2 i bet 10 dollars he goes all in for 50 i call
then at this point it shows the cards before the turn and the river- he has 76 so i am about 99 percent favorite well turn comes 7 and river comes 7 only thing that could happen to beat me no other outcome could beat me - now i have played poker online and real for over 20 years i have never encoutered this - i know that it happens alot that you just get beat by river or just bad luck but this outcome is unbeleivable odds to loose and i think it only happens in online , i heard bad beats and bad stories but the odds are different. in my lifetime of playing cards i would never see this happen in real (odds is like winning lottery ) :)

Don't play poker on Bovada. Their anonymous tables were cracked, and Bodog thought it was a joke. There is no telling how many other holes are in their new software. They are not serious at all about poker, and in fact seem to go the opposite direction of the rest of the industry in terms of security. Their sports and casino games seem to be just fine, and their payout record is excellent, but there are some very serious concerns about how they operate their poker room.

As for the hand, losing to that is not mathematically impossible, in fact, it is twice as likely to happen than you getting dealt pocket kings to begin with.

I know people who play online poker as a group. They chat by phone and tell each other what cards they have. The weakest hands fold. So who ever else is at the table is at a big disadvantage. Play for real is my vote

:rolleyes:
 
I know people who play online poker as a group. They chat by phone and tell each other what cards they have. The weakest hands fold. So who ever else is at the table is at a big disadvantage. Play for real is my vote

Personally, I feel collusion is a HUGE problem with online poker. As I've stated before, I do better at slots than poker, except in a real casino, where I do much better with poker.
 
Personally, I feel collusion is a HUGE problem with online poker. As I've stated before, I do better at slots than poker, except in a real casino, where I do much better with poker.

If you do better at a game that pays back 90% +/- than playing poker you are doing it wrong. Sorry, but I just had to say that.

There are two poker rooms/networks that have extremely poor game security IMO. Bodog/Bovada and Merge Gaming security are widely regarded as unacceptably bad. Bodog because they intentionally removed player safeguards from their software, and the new software was immediately proven to be insecure. Mere Gaming seems to have trouble catching anything, and when players catch colluders, Merge seems to just keep the money. Unfortunately, they are two of the limited choices U.S. players have. Playing for low stakes on these sites would seem to be just fine, but not for any type of serious money.

The large poker rooms are proactive. Cheating takes place, but the big poker rooms have huge security departments where the only job is to track games and look for this stuff. I have received many emails in the past "Player x was caught collusing with player y. Here is a refund". It is nowhere near the problem some people think it is. I have seen plenty of cheating and soft playing in live games. I am not sure they are substantially safer. In fact, it is harder to catch in a live game than online because there is no record of the hand afterwards in a live game. In a live game you cannot go to the floor after the hand and say "Could you look at that hand for me to make sure it was legit?" like you can online.

I've busted several online players this way, and so have many others, which is why Bodog gets such poor security marks. Players have no way to know who the player is and if there is a pattern, or if the player got up from the game and it is another player, or that the same shady player from yesterday is at your table again and needs to be watched when that other player is there. Bodog started releasing hand histories after 24 hours that show all cards, but no tracking software or hand replayer will work with them anymore because of these problems, so the info is largely useless or would take hours to put together a case.

Play at the large sites, and if you are in the U.S. just do not play for any kind of serious stakes. Nobody is cheating is micro games. One thing that I look forward to in the U.S. is that cheating will be a serious crime, and players will have much more to risk than just their account balances. All it will take is a few high profile criminal cases, and it will be a major discouragement.
 
I agree, there's still a lot of cheating in real life poker games, it's much easier to check online. I prefer slots but I think if you stick to big sites, like Outdated URL (Invalid) for example and stay away from serious stakes, you'll be fine.
 
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