Why is Online Poker so popular?

What types of Poker are available at an Online Casino?

Poker

 

Poker is one of the oldest games and has been played for about two centuries. However, in the last 15 years it has gained much more popularity and received a lot of attention from new players, especially from Europe and the USA. What are the reasons for this popularity among the masses so?

One of the main reasons for this phenomenal rise of poker is the fact that the people see Poker not as a game but as a sport, because the media and casino Poker tournaments-as a sports marketing Event. ESPN, one of the largest and most well-known sports channels, plays a pioneering role with Travel Channel, Fox Sports and many more in the promotion of Poker tournaments, which usually have very large stakes, such as the 2003 World Series of Poker.

With the introduction of electronic Banking solutions, Poker has also become very popular in the online poker rooms and Casinos. Many new Poker tournaments with huge prizes have been highly advertised through the media. It is now nothing new that the online poker rooms sponsor many different Events and advertise on television to raise their awareness about it. They often use well-known Poker personalities as hangers in the advertisements.

Because of the great entertainment aspect, many people organize Poker evenings in the circle of friends to beat their opponents and take the Pot home at the end. In addition to the social aspect, competition is also an important motive for poker.

In the following we would like to focus on Video Poker, which is offered in the Online Casinos. The difference to Poker in the online poker rooms that Video Poker is played against a machine, while rooms in the online poker against other players. Although the value of the cards remains the same, Video Poker has different rules and ways of playing. So it is 100% a gamble and the skill or a strategy does not matter.

Video Poker

 

Video Poker is basically a mix of slot machine and Draw Poker, with the aim of achieving the highest Five-Card Poker Hand, as in most Poker games. Video Poker is played as in classic Poker with a 52-player hand.

The process is quite simple; After the player has made his bet, he gets a random five cards allocated. Now the player can decide which cards he wants to keep or discard, whereby he gets a random replacement card for each discarded card. The player wins if he has achieved a winning poker hand. The payout is based on the value of the respective hand and the payout amounts are always clearly visible at the front of the machine.