Online casinos try to recreate the experience of gambling at a brick and mortar casino like you would find in Las Vegas, Macau or Monte Carlo. While in many ways they succeed, there are some differences in the game that are unavoidable and they have an impact on your strategy.
The most obvious difference in the online game is that there are no players sitting or standing around you. That has a huge impact on strategy for poker. For regular poker, strategy is equal parts playing the odds and playing your opponents by reading their reactions. With online poker, part of the strategy is gone. Those tells you look for to determine if someone’s bluffing won’t work on a computer-generated avatar.
The good news is because no one is sitting at the poker table with you, it means they can’t read your tells, either. It also means if you are newer to the game, you can look at a cheat sheet while you play. You can print a list of probabilities or, if you’re really new, a chart of poker hands, to help you play. Since you’re still playing against real people, you don’t want to take a lot of time to look over strategy, but it is an option available. Rest assured that all poker tables in Vegas frown upon such a thing.
Online blackjack is also different from the kind you play at a brick and mortar casino. Here, you’re not really playing against a dealer. The cards you and the dealer draw are determined by a random number generator. Since there is no dealer or other players at the table, you can take as much time as you want to make a decision. Again, for new players this means you can look over a basic strategy chart while you play. One disadvantage, though, is that card counting doesn’t work online, due to the RNG.
In most ways, the games at online casinos are played the same as in a brick and mortar casino. However, with the skilled games of blackjack and poker, there is different strategy involved. I have one more piece of good news, though: When playing at an online casino, you’re not expected to tip the dealer.
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