Online poker is simply the exciting game of poker played online over the Internet. It was in fact responsible for a tremendous growth in the total number of online poker players all over the world. The rapid spread of this online card game also had an interesting cause – it provided a venue through which real money could be won and transferred. In fact, more people became attracted to online poker and started registering as poker players.

However, the massive influx of new online poker sites on the World Wide Web created a problem. This time, the problem wasn’t so much about the shortage of suitable online poker sites, but about choosing the most reputed and trustworthy ones. It got difficult for players to distinguish between the good and the bad poker sites and so they lost their initial interest in playing. Worse still, some of them lost all interest in playing because they were cheated by some “online poker sites” and got cheated out of their money. Such players undoubtedly constitute a significant fraction of the overall players in the online poker world.

Thankfully, the situation is now much better because these days, online poker rooms are legally bound not to use any kind of automated systems which facilitate cheating. They are strictly committed to play Poker with the same level of fairness that the rest of us follow in the real world. There are still some online poker rooms which are cheating their players with the help of such systems, but the number is very less. Hence, players can easily differentiate between a fake online poker site and a genuine one, and can register for the genuine ones, without getting into any trouble at all.