The poker game is gaining its popularity day by day. Now online poker sites, televised poker tournaments and traditional “poker nights” have taken its place at every body’s house. The old black and white picture of poker with smoky, fainted lit back rooms filled with con men and criminals are fading away.

Here you can learn about online poker games, its rules and features and how to play poker.

At first you should know what is online poker? Online poker and “video poker” are not same. Video poker is looks like a slot machine that you have seen at casinos. Online poker is not a game that you can play by yourself. Although you may be playing alone sitting at home, with your game server connected with internet. Every online poker game has two real players, while most have eight to ten. And in case of large tournaments thousands of players all play at a time surely at different table.

On online poker you are not playing against your house, neither you make bets with the poker site. But you are actually waging with other player playing online. The house i.e. the poker site is earning money from each pot before rewarding it to the winner. Poker site does not gamble at all. This is where the online casino and land base is basically different. In land base casino the players and the casino are your competitor whereas in online poker the house acts as a neutral third party.

Now everybody might be thinking actually how it’s happening? Here how it functions:
The poker web site: From here you can find information about the games available at the site, promotions, rules and regulations, upcoming events and the place where you can download poker clients.
The Poker client: It is the program that you have installed at your computer. It shows you a graphical display of the games where there are players, cards and buttons for bets and fold. After you run it gets connected with the game server.

The poker game server: It is the central computer that hosts the poker games. The game server plays the role of dealer (who shuffles, deals cards and awards pots), floorman and cashier. The game make sure all the rules are correctly followed of not. The gamer is just like hub helping to communicate within the online players.
The players: People who are online ready to play poker. Each playing sitting in front of their computer connected with the poker server with internet, running their own copy of the poker clients at home.
You can play online poker for real money too. When you are playing for real money you are playing for “free chips’. When you first get sign up you will be offered with number of chips. When you are indented to play for real money you have to deposit some initial amount, so before going for real money check the site is trustworthy or not.