Poker Worldwide
Online poker is a worldwide phenomenon. You often see online poker review sites that have a little American flag to denote that a particular online poker room accepts players from the USA but what about all the other countries that may or may not be restricted from a particular poker room?
They don't ever get a mention, do they? You don't often see a Romanian flag beside a poker room review to show that they accept players from that country do ya?.
And are we going to do something about that situation? Not a chance.
To be fair there are simply too many countries that any review page would be covered in country flags.
What we do intend to do about this though is to not focus on the American player angle so much. There are plenty of sites that devote themselves to listing and reviewing poker rooms that take American players, we won't be another one of those.
Instead, we want to concentrate on rooms that have a 'whole world' flavor to them, rooms that accepts players from all over, and not any one specific country, such as American or UK poker sites.
Free Poker
The term 'free poker' or 'free poker bonus' is used quite a bit in online poker marketing.
Many poker sites refer to the initial deposit bonus on offer from most poker room when they say 'free'.
Of course, many players mean 'play money' tables when they search for 'free poker'.
This can be a tricky area to define. There is little point in promoting the 'play money' tables as free poker when most, if not all, online poker rooms have this option.
Of course, players may not know that this option is available at all poker rooms.
And to say the the deposit bonus money is free money could be considered misleading as players will need to make a deposit of their own money in order to get this 'free' money, so it could be difficult to see this as really being free when you have to pay to get it.
Some poker portals try to highlight the difference between that type of bonus and real free poker money bonuses. Other portals go one step further and describe these bonuses as no deposit poker bonuses.
This use of terminology seems to be more accurate, and informative to the player.
Some more dedicated poker portals go a step further and classify free bonuses that are available directly from poker rooms as free poker money and those bonuses that area available from third party sites as no deposit poker bonuses, even though both types of bonus should not require a deposit.
While this may be taking things a touch too far, there is no doubt that it is a lot more informative than other sites.
Online Poker
Online poker is a most wonderful thing. It has brought the great game of poker to the (online) masses.
And it has made the game available to anyone with a pc and an internet connection.
The heady times of the early years of online poker have pretty much passed now and we are settling in to a period of consolidation of the online version of the game. Gone too are the days of the easy poker bonus.
Online players these days have got to be a lot more clued in to the online world if they want to avoid being taken for their entire bankrolls shortly after they have sat down.
I should stress here that this is only likely to happen if they sit down at an unsuitable online poker room.
With a bit of advice, a small bit of research, and a decent poker strategy unhappy situation like that can easily be avoided
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