Tips For Playing Internet Poker
- By John Simpson
- Published July 7, 2008
- Poker
Internet poker has taken the world by storm, for the past few years it's been featured on television, in magazines, poker tutorial books have been published and sold millions of copies, the internet itself has seen an explosion is poker related websites. The question is, how safe is internet poker and is it easy for a beginner to try?
The one thing that worries most newcomers to online poker is whether or not they're being tricked. You give your personal details to a poker site to register, you play against usernames on a monitor and there comes a time when you wish to make a real money deposit and try your luck against the best. All steps could be considered somewhat risky.
Follow these simple steps and you will be taking the safest route to playing your first online poker game:
1. Choose a reputable poker room who advertises in the media, eg. on television, major sporting events, full page national newspaper ads.
This tells you the poker room is willing to spend large amounts of money to get you to play on their site, fly-by-night outfits are less likely to outlay such large sums for national advertising.
Well established, trustworthy poker rooms include; Full Tilt Poker, Cake Poker and Sun Poker.
2. Use a free payment processor to handle your online transactions. Companies such as Neteller and ePassporte will protect your details and they have extremely efficient support staff to handle any requests.
Doing this ensures you only give out your card details once to make a deposit - to the payment processor.
3. Use a different password at every site you register at, make sure it includes numbers and letters. This will ensure if the worst happens, it will only happen at one site and you can quickly fix the situation.
Once you've found a poker room you'd like to play at, you will want to make the most of your deposit, keep a look out for deposit bonuses that will automatically add extra money into your new poker account. These bonuses are often awarded after you've entered a referral code during the signup process.
The one thing that worries most newcomers to online poker is whether or not they're being tricked. You give your personal details to a poker site to register, you play against usernames on a monitor and there comes a time when you wish to make a real money deposit and try your luck against the best. All steps could be considered somewhat risky.
Follow these simple steps and you will be taking the safest route to playing your first online poker game:
1. Choose a reputable poker room who advertises in the media, eg. on television, major sporting events, full page national newspaper ads.
This tells you the poker room is willing to spend large amounts of money to get you to play on their site, fly-by-night outfits are less likely to outlay such large sums for national advertising.
Well established, trustworthy poker rooms include; Full Tilt Poker, Cake Poker and Sun Poker.
2. Use a free payment processor to handle your online transactions. Companies such as Neteller and ePassporte will protect your details and they have extremely efficient support staff to handle any requests.
Doing this ensures you only give out your card details once to make a deposit - to the payment processor.
3. Use a different password at every site you register at, make sure it includes numbers and letters. This will ensure if the worst happens, it will only happen at one site and you can quickly fix the situation.
Once you've found a poker room you'd like to play at, you will want to make the most of your deposit, keep a look out for deposit bonuses that will automatically add extra money into your new poker account. These bonuses are often awarded after you've entered a referral code during the signup process.