When I get the itch to play some low limit holdem I’m often faced with the decision of logging into my online poker account or making the trip to a local card room. Before you go and put your name on the $3/$6 waitlist at the MGM Grand here are some benefits that online poker offers that your local brick and mortar casino can not.
- Find a game any time of the day/afternoon/night. Want to play low limit holdem at 4:30am? Just log online and there are numerous tables for you to choose from. You can even play in your bathrobe if you wish.
- Online poker offers very low limits, $.02/$.04 in most cases, for a newbie to get their feet wet with. For a very small investment you can be playing for real money online against real people.
- The big advantage of playing online low limit holdem is the sheer number of hands you can play in an hour compared to the number you see at a casino. At your typical casino you will see 30-40 hands in one hour while online you can see 60-70 per hour. That is almost twice as many hands! Not to mention that you can play several tables at one time increasing your hands per hour even greater. This increase in number of hands you play will greatly increase the profits that you see while at the tables.
While live poker does have it’s benefits, such as being able to get tells on your opponents, the pros of playing online holdem are just that much stronger than playing live.
