This Is Your Guide To Playing Online Poker. It has been written by “Richgambler” the owner of www.richgambler.com, who is a frequent player at many online casinos and poker rooms, even Vip at some. It is a guide to help you know How to Play Online Poker For Real Money. Online Gambling can be quite tricky if you are new to it.

Chapter 1 Online Poker

Online Poker is not well regulated yet, so you have to somewhat know where to play, and what Poker Rooms might, have bots (fake people, that a computer is playing), or just plain rob your money. Problem solved! All the Poker Rooms Advertised Here, on this Website are well known organisations for credibility and reputability, and their payouts and software are usually verified by a big 3rd party firm. I have played in all of the Poker Rooms advertised here, and only places i trust will have a place on this site. Thought, poker rooms are generally more trustable and honest than on line casinos. The thrill of winning real money from the comfort of your own home makes me want to play. Playing poker against other people around the world can be at its best, very fun and rewarding, but sometimes when you hit a big losing streak you can even hate it. If you are a good player poker is profitable and fun in the long run. Some people might disagree but, I say online poker is more a game of skill then a game of chance.

Chapter 2 Selecting Where to Play And Playing For Free

Take time to read my Poker Reviews under Wealthy Poker -> Poker Rooms -> Full Review, and when you find an appropriate Poker Room, select the Poker Room through my Website by clicking on the “Play Now” link, or a Poker Room Banner, and enter the Rooms own website. Most of the Poker Rooms advertised here allow you to play in fun mode to test out their games. Download the software to your computer and create an account, and you are ready to start testing the fun money games. Many poker rooms offer freerolls, where you can win real money without risking any of your own money. The down point to freerolls is that they are so popular, that they may take from a couple of hours to almost 24 hours to be complete. I plan on making exclusive freerolls for the members of this site. Watch out for them...

Chapter 3 Selecting a Poker Game

Online Poker rooms offer many different poker games. These normally include: Texas Hold’em, 7-stud and Omaha, and variations of these games. Rules of the games, are listed on the Poker Rooms own website. You can access a poker site by clicking on the “Play Now” link, or poker banner, on the richgambler website. For advice on playing these games you can post in Richgambler.com Forums, under Poker Talk.

Chapter 4 Real money

If you want to start playing with you own money, you can play poker in either in the “normal” ring table game mode, where you place your bets in real money. The table game limits start from as low as 0.02$/0.04$ and climb up to 100$/200$, and above for fixed limit games. These limits are different with different Poker Rooms, but you should find something suitable for you in every room. Usually poker rooms offer not only fixed limit tables, but pot limit and no limit also. You better start with small fixed limit games, and when you know how to play different games, you can move on and get to know pot and no limit games. Maybe you like the freedom and excitement they offer. The other mode of playing is “tournament play” . You pay a predefined amount of money, that the tournament costs, and get tournament chips. More players and the bigger the buy in, the bigger prizes. Usually about 10% best places will get paid (f.e 10 places paid in 100 players tournament) , and top three takes home most of the money in the prize pool. As a winner of some of the biggest tournaments you can win amounts from 25,000$ to 1,00,0000$!!. You may qualify for these big tournaments through satellite tournaments, where you have to pay much less than the real tournament buy-in.

Chapter 5 Picking A Deposit/Withdrawal Method

If you plan on playing Pokerfor Real Money there are numerous ways to deposit, but I think that the most popular and easy ways are “online wallets” , which allow you to transfer the funds to and back from the Poker Rooms. They are also the fastest methods of getting your winnings. The method I prefer the most is called Neteller. It is also the most well known “online wallet”, which means that almost all Poker Rooms use it. Neteller is located at www.neteller.com where you can open an account. You first have to deposit funds into Neteller through Bank Transfer, Credit Card, or some other method, and then you can transfer the funds into Poker Rooms, and back from them through Neteller. If you want to have your winnings sent to you directly, you can withdraw the funds from Neteller. Other good online wallets include www.moneybookers.com , www.prepaidatm.com, and www.firepay.com which work similar to Neteller. However Neteller is the best there is currently, because the preference , what “online wallet” to use varies with different Poker Rooms, but neteller is the most popular. If you don’t wish to use an online wallet you can transfer the funds to and back directly from Poker Room through Bank Transfer, Check , Credit Card, and many other banking methods located in the Poker Room Cashier.

Chapter 6 Selecting Deposit Amount (Bonuses)

Some Poker Rooms give out bonuses to first time customers, and some even more frequent bonuses. These bonuses are mentioned under the Poker Rooms Full Review page. The bonuses in poker rooms differ to casinos, so that you usually have to play a required amount of raked hands (hands where you contribute to the pot), before the bonus is released to your account as real money. This is explained more thoroughly in the concerning poker room website. Playing Poker with bonuses makes you usually play rake free, or close to rake free. You still have to pay rake, but the bonuses you’ll get will more or less compensate the same amount. It is cheap even without bonuses (much cheaper than in live card rooms), so i don’t mind playing poker without bonuses. I find it most pleasant to pay some rake to a poker room, which I trust, and where I think the worst players are. Online Poker is a game of skill, and you can win almost constantly if you play where the worst players are. Of course you can have long losing and winning streaks, but in the long run it is profitable for a good player.

Chapter 7 Making a Succesfull Withdrawal

When withdrawing money from the Poker Rooms cashier, there is usually a period of time you have to wait before receiving your money. This depends on the time of your deposit. Usually you can’t withdraw for 8-48 hours since your last deposit. Withdrawals are usually processed fast among poker rooms, usually within a couple of hours, but some might take a couple of days. Some Poker Rooms may ask you for some kind of verification documents, in order to make sure there is a real person old enough to play the casino games. This is just a security measure, and this is usually only for first time withdrawals. This is not a very common practice, but you should know they might require it. The best thing to do is to have scanned documents of your Picture ID and a Utility Bill, so they can verify that the information you used when registering is accurate. Scanned documents are also the easiest to send.

Chapter 8 Problems? I Can Try To Help.

If you run into some kind of problems with the Poker Rooms advertised on this website, I will try to help as a mediator. First try to solve the problem by contacting the concerning Poker Room yourlsef. It it doesn’t work out contact me with the details of the problem, and I will contact them. Being a partner with these Poker Rooms greatly helps me to solve problems of players that join them through my site.