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Trust

Online poker is huge business. But it is a new business and potential poker players are often reluctant to deposit their cash and/or share personal information (much like they did initially wih e-tailers like Amazon and Ebay).

The big poker sites listed in our review section are among the most responsible and profitable businesses on the internet. They take great care with money and personal information because their multi-million dollar businesses could be wiped out by any security problems.

Poker players have trusted these sites with hundreds of millions of dollars, and we have heard of no cases where players have been 'ripped off.' We personally have trusted them with our "pay cheques" for years now, and are pleased by the prompt and professional cash-out procedures; we have received ever penny we have earned, plus some nice bonuses.

Many of these companies are public, listed on the World's Stock Exchanges, and more are going public every year. This level of transparency is very good for the business.

Fairness

We have played millions of hands of internet poker, and our statistics tell us that starting hands are dealt with the frequency they should be dealt, and that cards fall as they should. This is something we could never know in a brick-and-mortar card room.

Online poker sites make money by hosting fair games. If they hosted unfair games, they would go out of business. Poker players make money every day playing at these sites.

Cost

The most amazing thing about online poker is the number of games at every limit that are going on at any one time. You can start out signing up and playing in freeroll tournaments for real money without making a deposit. You can play for play money or micro-stakes. The cost in these situations is negligible.

We recommend you make a small initial deposit and play at the microstake tables. At Pacific Poker you can start out with 5cent games. At Paradise Poker they start out with 2cent games! By playing for real money (however small) you are playing real poker. The play money tables are not really poker because nobody ever folds!

Will you win? If you pay attention to our tutorials and stay at all disciplined, you will be a winner at the microstakes where the poker playing is just awful. Then you can move up stakes as see feel fit.

Online poker is a safe and fun form of entertainment.