Choosing an Online Poker Room
If you are new to the online Poker world and just looking for an online Poker room to play at, there are many things to consider. With the increase in popularity in online Poker since the Moneymaker craze back in 2003, when an online Poker player bought into a $37 satellite tournament that ended up getting him a gold bracelet and two and a half million in cash when he ultimately won the main event to the 2003 World Series of Poker, more and more online Poker rooms have popped up out the wood works. Now there are tons of different online Poker rooms to choose from that are all trying to fight for you to play at their site.
Choosing a good online Poker room is important to anyone that treasures their hard earned cash. You want to get the most out of your buck, so you want to be sure that you are at a Poker room that has been around the block a time or two and is still standin’ to talk about it. Below is a check list that I made for all you internet Poker players of things to look at when picking what online Poker room you want to play at.
1. Countries Accepted
Most online Poker rooms accept players from a bunch of different countries, while other online Poker rooms target a certain country. If you are a player from the United States, you will find that most online Poker rooms do not accept players from the US. But, there are still some great ones that do like Full Tilt and PokerStars.
2. Compatible Software
If you have a computer that uses Windows to function, you won’t have any problem finding an online Poker room with software that is compatible. But if you are someone that has a MAC, you might run into a lot of brick walls before you find the opening. Since MACs started getting so freakin’ popular, online Poker rooms noticed there were a whole lot of players that couldn’t even play at their sites. So to fix this, a lot of them started making no download software that wors even on MAC computers.
3. Banking Methods
Though this probably isn’t the first thing that you look at when you are checkin’ out online Poker rooms, it is a pretty big deal breaker. Just about every internet Poker room takes Visa and MasterCard, but if you don’t have one of those, you might want to check out if they accept the one you use.
4. Games
If the Poker game you want to play is Texas Holdem, you will find that at every damn Poker room on the web. But if you want something newer and less popular like mixed Poker games, you might have to check out a bunch before you find one with more than the same old Poker game line up. There are some Poker rooms that have a bunch of mixed games you can play like PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker.
5. Promotions and Bonuses
Because there are so many freakin’ Poker rooms available on the web today, they all want you to play at their site. To try to reel you in they offer huge promotion and Poker bonuses like welcome bonuses, first deposit bonuses, reload bonuses, refer a friend bonuses etc. You will find promotions at every Poker room, but what you need to do is read the fine print. Find out what it takes or what they expect you to do for them to give you some free cash. Most online Poker rooms just want you to play a certain number of hands or bet a certain amount of your money.
If you make sure to use this check list and check out all 5 of these things before settlin’ on an internet Poker room, you can bet your ass you will be happy with the one you picked.