When online poker first showed up at online casinos a lot of people were doubtful whether online poker could be considered as real poker or not. However, it didn’t take long before even the most skeptical individuals realized that online poker would become big business. 

One might ask why online poker has become such a success. Well, you don’t have to be a professor to see why a lot of poker players prefer online poker instead of offline poker.

First of all, online poker is much more convenient than offline poker. You can play whenever and wherever.  Thus, you can play online poker in the middle of the night if that’s what you want, and with your laptop you can play poker at almost every thinkable location - only your imagination sets the limits.

Another nice thing about online casinos compared to the offline ones is that you’ll never find an online poker room that charges you with more than $3 in rake.

Moreover, when visiting a land based casino you probably have experienced having problems finding the right table for the game you want to play.  In online poker you’ll never have that problem. Every online casino is open 24/7 and there are always a lot of players for you to play against.  As a result of this you have the opportunity to choose which opponents you want to play online poker against. You can’t do this in offline poker since there only may be only one table open for the particular game or stake you want to play in.

One last great thing about online poker compared to offline poker is the speed of the game. Playing offline poker can be rather slow since you’ll play app. 20-30 hands per hour where as in online poker you might play app. 70-100 hands per hour.