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Chapter 1: Internet Poker
Internet Poker
Without real money at stake, online casinos cannot make profits. (They take
a rake - a fixed percentage of each pot -just as a real casino poker room
does. The only difference is that it's taken electronically rather than by a
human dealer.)
Milestone advances in computer graphics, sound, and programming made
Internet cash games possible. On January 1, 1998, Planet Poker was the first
Internet poker casino to offer poker for cash stakes. Others followed.
but is it legal?
The answer as to whether such games are legal depends on which side of the
business you're on - supplier side or client side - and also on where
you live.
If you're thinking of starting an online poker casino, you'd better get out of
Dodge!
In the United States, you may be prosecuted for operating such a business,
since they are likely prohibited by federal law.
Seeing a potential gold rush of almost unlimited'client demand, foreign entrepreneurs
rushed in to fill the void. Internet poker casinos are based in countries
where laws are more lenient, such as Costa Rica.
The clients, however, may live anywhere. In some areas, it is against the law
to place bets on the Internet. Depending on where you live, it may be illegal
to play poker for cash stakes online.
Improving your play with Internet play-money games.
Determining if lnternet real-money games are for you
- sometimes you simply have to know that you're playing against, well, real
people -not against computer creations. When the computer opponents of interactive software games have you talking to yourself and longing
for human adversaries to gripe about, what can you do?
Just as you can find almost anything else on the Internet, you can find poker
games.
These cybergames have no physical location, but you can summon
them up from your personal computer at any time. Like genies in a bottle,
they await your command - all it takes is a few clicks of your mouse!
Internet Play-Mune y Games
If you're not ready for cash stakes, you can play in mock games for playmoney
on the Internet.
Your opponents may be anywhere in the world. They
won't be in the same room with you, but they're real folks looking for a game.
You'll have to make a few adjustments when you move into online playing. lnternet poker games take place in cyberspace, the universe of electronic connections
that is at once everywhere and nowhere.
At first it's a little disconcerting
to hear a disembodied voice ask for your blind, or to have your cards
yanked away by invisible hands instead of folding them yourself!
The lnternet game designers have done all they can to simulate the sights and
sounds of a real poker game: You see yourself represented in pictogram form, seated at a virtual table
with other pictogram players, whose real counterparts may be anywhere
in the world.
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