Your reactions to the online poker law in the US – Part 4

{left}One of the greatest reasonst to teasure being a United States citizen is our vast freedom. Until recently, those freedoms included significantly more protection from government interference in our choice of entertainment. Due to some unfortunate events, including the Janet Jackson “wardrobe malfunction” among others, the conservative right have been working to ban many venues of entertainment. Unfortunately these groups are strongly motivated by religion more than word of law.

“The Unlawful Internet Gambling Act of 2006″ was signed into law late last year. While 76% of the internet poker players in the world come from the United States (partygaming.com). The bill did not get its proper day in court. It was an attached to the safe port act, and therefor to vote it down a representative would have to vote down an act that will help to ensure more security in our ports. According to Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) the bill was rushed through congress and “no one on the Senate-House conference committee had even seen the final language of the bill”.

Unfortunately, a great deal of our rights as citizens are going by the wayside as ear marks on other more pressing bills. It is important that we speak up for those rights we deserve.

I am a strong believer that allowing US citizens to continue in the online poker arena is good for our economy. The internet and its businesses are still the fastest gowing sales tools out there. Given the vast number of US citezens that participate in online poker, if the US government would embrace this “game of skill” the opportunity for profits for companies here at home is huge.

I wanted to open a discussion on this topic. Please feel free to add your opinion on Online Poker in the US.

Learn Internet Online Poker

 

The idea of internet online poker had always been appealing due to the comfort that it can offer from being able to play from home, pay from home, and receives pay outs from home; however, a lot of people that have had their basic beginning from B&M casinos and they have a slight hesitation to start up with internet poker online because they know just a bit of computers or nothing at all.

There are many players that are not able to expose their skills in the poker world because they do not know to use the computer. Their skill is submerged within their casino. Many players that have a bit of basic literacy play poker with a lot of math in their brain, but their illiteracy causes a total refusal of their skills in the internet online poker because they do not know how to log in or play.

Computer phobia should be eliminated in such players. If they just know to read and write; just 3 hours of training on how to use a computer and how to register in a poker room, and how to monitor e-mails etcetera will have someone started. Even if they are slow learners it is not going to take more than 30 hours for the practice. The kind of toil to get to know internet online poker is going to be worth the learning for those that have a true skill in poker, but are not able to use it due to computer illiteracy.

Educating poker players about internet online poker can also be done as a poker training course! None will be interested in doing a work without anything in return. If you are already a poker player you can charge a nominal fee for those that wish to learn internet online poker and make a small business out of it. It is necessary to charge people when you intend to teach something because it is human nature to not value things that they do not pay for. Charge a nominal fee for the teaching.

Once a skilled player that was not able to enter to internet online poker gets to know how to do it after the coaching, is for sure going to excel in the playing and will be surprised to see the kind of returns that they can see from internet online poker and they will be happy about the double returns than they were able to get from a B&M casino.

Internet Poker Strategy: Avoid Playing Too Many Hands

The starting place to improve your poker style is to honestly and correctly evaluate your qualities and see just which those things that need improvement are. You must ask yourself what is it that you need to improve. Pose the question, and then try to answer it as good as you can, setting objectives and following a close list to achieve them. This list will most definitely vary depending on experience, your knowledge of poker and your way of being in general. But there is an aspect that needs improvement every time, no matter who you are, when you are playing online. Keep in mind that online you cannot see the others so there are no tells.

The most common and money-losing mistake is playing too many hands. If you want to know if you are playing too many hands just watch your style, your games, and see how many hands you are loosing, especially those that you suspected from the begging they are bad, but still went along with them. We all live under the impression that at some point we didn’t have a good hand since forever. And this is the moment that a hand we wouldn’t have played the moment we first entered the poker room suddenly becomes interesting and full of opportunities. This is the trap boredom leads us to. We will always find reason to keep playing a hand even if we know it is a poor one just to take part in the game.

So, if you think this is an aspect of you game that needs improving, your objective is to increase the number of hands that you are giving up in pre-flop. If you are playing aver 40% of the hands you are getting and mostly loosing, then something is wrong. We must most definitely play fewer hands. So your objective will be in this situation the attempt to throw at least 70-80% of the hands you are getting. Just do it mechanically. Count the hands and when you realize how many more you have to drop, you will start dropping all those questionable hands automatically. Firstly, stop playing bad cards from early position. This is a must. If you are not sure of what the term of good hands for every position means, they you can refer to articles or booker written by experts for this purpose. Try and let others teach you and stop thinking you are experienced and know everything. Make a list and count every time you are folding. After you finish your games, remember the total number of hands that were in the game. Then calculate your pre-flop folding percent. If you managed to get it up to 80% or at least 70% it means you are disciplined and you have achieved you goal. If not, keep trying till you do.

Remember that this goes only for full-ring tables mostly. Once you managed to adjust your folding style, you already achieved a new level in paying online poker, you are one step up on the stairs to the pros category.

Poker Theory

Internet poker is everywhere. Especially playing on poker stars net. Poker stars net is where everyone likes to start playing on. On poker stars net you can win a seat into the poker tour world or poker series world. Some people even start on poker yahoo or think with mathematics poker brains. There is a poker theory to winning online poker and if you play smart you can make some great money.

The one poker theory you should agree with is to play with bonus poker. What do I mean by that? Many poker sites offer a 100% deposit bonus when you sign up with them. The poker sites that offer a 100% bonus are as follows: Full tilt poker, poker stars, and bodog poker all over a 100% deposit for first time depositers. If you download poker on your computer and deposit into one of these sites you can sleep easy at night knowing that you just got the most for your money. You can get up to 600 bucks on your first deposit for doing nothing. That is an extra 600 bucks you have to play with to jump right into the poker tables. You can watch free poker video or take a look at card poker which will help you increase your odds of winning also.

Once you learn all the poker rules and try out advance advanced holdem player player poker, you will be ready to jump right into real money poker. Playing for real money is unlike any kind of poker game. When you play for play money people just absolutely don’t care. They will go all in with anything and play absolutely like a maniac. It’s depressing watching your aces or kings getting crushed by some idiot going all in with 34. It happens, with poker you need to accept it. Luckily you didn’t lose any real money if this happened to you at the play money tables. It happens all the time at the real money tables also, which is why I have retired from playing cash games and I make a great living now playing only sit and go’s. I have deposited 1 time in the last year and I have never looked back. Soon as I started strictly playing sit n go’s is when I was finally able to quit my day job, buy a new house, car, etc…

It has truly been a blessing waking up whenever I want and spending at least 4-5 hours a day playing sit and go’s. The breakdown is as follows for sit and go’s

1st place = 50% of the total prize pool

2nd place = 30% of the total prize pool

3rd place = 20% of the total overall prize pool

Now when I play sit and go’s I have one thing in mind every time I play. I go after first place every time no matter what. I do not play scared and do not think about getting knocked out and placing in the money. To be profitable you need to play like this also.

Online Poker Legal Issues by Bestcasinos4fun.com

Over the years, poker became extremely popular at the casinos all over the world. With the advent of computers and internet, many more people have started playing various forms of online poker at the best casinos. The Worlds Series of Poker’s uncomfortable relationship with online gambling emerged in 2003; when an accountant who qualified through an online tournament went on to win the main event, making online poker more popular than ever before. At that point in time, advertising of online poker sites on television exploded and the Justice Department stepped in. In June of 2003 the Justice Department warned the National Association of Broadcasters that any person or entity that aids or abets online betting is punishable as a principal violator.

About half of the 9000 players in the Worlds Series of Poker’s main event qualified through an online satellite tournament. However the tournament commissioner said that the online tournaments didn’t put a player into the World Series, it was the $10,000 cash for a seat at the table.

The televised Worlds Series of Poker tournament was delayed for several minutes the first day because anyone wearing a dot-com poker logo would not be allowed to play. There were about a thousand players that flipped shirts inside out and workers that covered the dot-com symbols with black tape.

The house bill in congress would ban Internet gambling except fore horse race betting and state lotteries. It is an attempt to close a loophole in the 1961 Wire Act, meant to crack down on racketeering. The Wire Act forbids business from using a wire communication facility to assist in placing bets on any sporting event or contest. However, according to a federal appeals court in New Orleans, the law does not cover other types of casino betting which leaves some doubt on whether prosecutors can shut down Internet poker and other casino games. With or without a new law from Congress, the Justice Department interprets all online gambling to be illegal. Other countries allow it, so online companies set up operations outside the United States with easy access to U.S. players on their computers.

The online poker advocates say that the Justice Department’s enforcement practices have focused on operators of online sports gambling sites, not sites that offer only poker. It would be hard to arrest the poker site operators in Costa Rica, Aruba, and other offshore operations, but many argue that poker tournaments online technically are not gambling. The argument is you get a prize for the competition. Also, prosecuting a business for promoting a dot-net site that does not have direct web links to its dot-com cousin makes for difficult legal work in court.

Online poker players have joined a group called the Poker Players Alliance to lobby Congress to stop the Internet gambling bill from passing in the Senate. Since the House passed bill in July, alliance membership has more than doubled to 75,000. If the bill passes, it would drive the business of poker underground, but for now it remains in the open.

US Government Admits Online Poker is not Illegal

On Wednesday, November 14, 2007, the US House Judiciary Committee held hearings regarding the legality of online poker, focusing specifically on the “Unlawful Internet Gaming and Enforcement Act” (UIGEA). We would expect that impassioned testimony from professional poker player Annie Duke and others would leave online-poker fans with a feeling of optimism. But surprisingly, the most significant statement uttered during the hearings was given by the other side, and it happened quickly and without fanfare. If you blinked, you missed it. The statement is monumental! Of course, it received no coverage in the mainstream press.

The government supplied some witnesses to speak in favor of the current state of affairs and the UIGEA. One such witness was the Honorable Catherine Hanaway, who is the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. She spoke against the prospect of amending any of the current gaming law, ridiculous and contradictory though that law may be.

At one point, she was questioned by Congressman Bobby Scott (D-Va.), who asked her point blank if playing online poker, under the current laws of the USA, was illegal, yes or no. Her answer, loud and clear, was NO! Apparently, not many people heard her answer. At least, her answer did not sink in with mainstream news organizations. But I heard it. And the Poker Players Alliance heard it, too. In a PPA press release, they state: “One key outcome of the hearing was the acknowledgment by the Department of Justice witness, the Honorable Catherine Hanaway, that it is not illegal for an individual to place a wager on the Internet. This confirmation … dispels a common misconception that an Internet poker player may be committing a crime by playing poker online.”

Did you hear that? Do you realize the significance of this admission? This is huge!

Virtually everyone — politicians, legal analysts, news reporters and lowly poker players from all walks of life — believes that playing poker on the Internet is illegal in the United States. Wrong! It is not illegal. Even the ill-conceived and convoluted UIGEA does not make online poker illegal. (The law only makes the transference of funds illegal, maybe.) Virtually everyone is incorrect in believing that Internet poker is illegal. I restate: The act of playing poker online is NOT illegal. And now, for the first time, we have the US Government stating exactly that. Wouldn’t you think this declaration would be newsworthy?

If you play poker online — regardless of how you play, whether you are good or bad, whether you win or lose, whether you play tight-aggressive or bluff every hand, whether you play low-stakes limit or high-stakes no-limit, whether you play fairly or attempt to cheat — this is a welcome admission for you. These words from a US Department of Justice witness are something we should all celebrate. Finally!

This is earthshaking news. It should be shouted from rooftops far and wide. CNN, FoxNews and others news-gathering organizations should headline their newscasts with this truth-blazing revelation. But no. Not a whisper from anywhere. Well, I’m here to tell you! The government admitted it! Playing poker on the Internet is NOT illegal in the United States of America! Learn it. Revel in it. Love it!