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ARE
YOU READY TO PLAY ONLINE?
Around
the world from Kyoto to Kalamazoo, thousands of people are
already playing poker online for both fun and real money.
Web sites offering both cash games and gratis play-money
games are sprouting in regulation-friendly countries in
the Caribbean and Central America and in far-flung places
like Asia and Australia.
Are you ready to make the leap from "in-the-flesh"
battle of the felt to virtual table Internet poker for real
money? Take our quick quiz to find out! Answering "yes"
to even one of the following questions will tell you you're
at least ready to consider a cyberspace ante or blind:
| 1. |
Do
you already have experience playing poker in a casino
or card room setting, or in a long-running home games?
(If you're a rank beginner, you're not ready to play
for cash online, but you may benefit enormously from
the free play-money preparatory games offered at many
established Internet cash games sites. Therefore,
don't be discouraged if your answer to this question
is "no. ") |
| 2. |
Are
you comfortable doing things on the Internet you once
did only in person, such as making new friends in
chat rooms or forums? What about more complex tasks
such as banking or shopping? (If you're computer literate
and already making purchases or doing financial transactions
online for business or pleasure, you're ready for
play-money games and will quickly be ready to test
your mettle in small limit online cash games as well.) |
| 3. |
Are
you allergic or otherwise adverse to cigarette smoke,
erratic ventilation systems, noise, or other physical
conditions prevalent in casinos and many home games? |
| 4. |
Do
you consider any of the following behaviors prohibited
by most casinos to be an essential part of poker:
Smoking cigars; playing shirtless (or without any
dress code whatsoever), or indulging in whatever vulgar
or animalistic utterances spew from your mouth when
your opponent makes a one-out draw? |
| 5. |
Would
you prefer having invisible (but highly competent)
dealers and cashiers to handle all aspects of money
and chips, including tracking pots and verifying change,
rather than make necessary calculations and handle
germ-laden chips and bills yourself? |
| 6. |
Are
you a multitasking Type A who'd like to spice up the
workday by combining a live poker games with spreadsheets,
routine correspondence, lines on hold, frustrations
of incompetent office help, and other aspects of the
daily grind? Or merely a Type A wannabe who'd simply
like to squeeze in a few rounds of stud during lunch
hour or when the boss isn't looking? |
| 7. |
Conversely,
are you a Type B or confirmed couch potato for whom
home-delivered pizza, remote-control access to favorite
sitcoms, and the most lenient of dress codes are obligatory
before you'll ante up? |
| 8. |
Do
you live too far from a real casino, card room, or
juicy home games to justify the flight or drive? |
| 9. |
Is
your favorite games, such as hold'em or stud or Omaha,
unavailable in your area? Or if it is, has the easy
money dried up to the extent that the games is but
a futile stroll in a rock garden? |
| 10. |
Are
you troubled by rude opponents, those who seem to
live at the poker table and rarely bathe, pests who
ask for a deck change every round, or space hogs who
always seem to have their elbow in your chips or a
knee slanted sideways into your turf? |
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