The hold em software has lots of tools that will let you make your decisions in advance. You can check the box to bet/raise, check, check/call, even auto post your blind. In a brick and mortar game the dealer is pretty much going to give you all the time that you need to call or fold. Poker online is much faster. The software gives you about 20 seconds to make up your mind and then if you don't respond, for whatever reason, it knocks you out of the pot. There is a handy check box that I use a lot. It says, "Fold."
When playing hold em poker first started online there was lots of consumer worry about weather the games were honest or not. That dissolved over time as folks started reporting winnings and more importantly getting paid for the winning. It hit landslide proportions in 2003 when Chris Moneymaker won a million dollar event in Las Vegas. He got into the event by coughing up forty bucks to play in an online poker tournament. He won the $10,000 buy in to the Vegas Tournament and turned that into 2.5 million. Online Hold Em took off like a hot rocket after that. The brick and mortar casinos did not get hurt in the least bit by the online poker boom. There was a time that you had to hunt for a game in Las Vegas. Now you can't take ten steps in any direction in Vegas without tripping over a game.
Now thousands of people play for real money online everyday.
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