Walter Wright & the Feds' Attack on Online Poker: A Tale of a $2.5 Billion Industry

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Online Poker game has faces so many assault and that's why many people in trouble to join this great online gambling or not. Here Walter Wright was earned lots of money.

"He started as most do, playing what's known as the "cash game." It's simple poker — win by pushing your advantage when the cards are good and bluffing when they're not."

Wow, it's clear from this paragraph that the author is not a poker player – or a poor one. First, the definition of "cash game" is that it's not a tournament. Serious cash games have little to do with being "simple poker," in fact they're quite the opposite. If we're talking no-limit or pot-limit, cash games can require very difficult decision making under big pressure for real dollars. Unlike tournaments, which carry their own type of pressure, but which is dictated most by survival and preservation / growth of what is essentially play money (albeit, for an entry cost), versus real dollars in a cash game. Granted, there is no time / blind level-related survival element in a cash game. But there's a big difference in calling a $10K raise in real cash versus tournament chips, which may have only cost you $5 in real money.

Win by pushing your advantage: of course. Bluffing when the cards are not good: uh... sometimes, in the right position, against the right (few or one) opponents, with the right cards on the board, and based on your table image, stack, and the story you have spun during that hand and that session. I'd love to play with players that simply feel they can continually bluff their way to consistent winning sessions.

All this said, I'm actually glad online poker is potentially fizzling. The best online players are simply not playing the same game as live players. Those who constantly multi-table and play as a job have reduced an art to a science, a numbers game. Play enough hands properly over the course of time, manage your bankroll, find your sweet spot among the limits and structures, and you'll come out ahead.

While many of poker's current "stars" have successfully transitioned from the online world, a vast majority will fall by the wayside, neither having the patience, discipline or face-to-face experience to play one table or one event at a time in the brick-and-mortar world. Plus, if the successful choose to play games appropriate to the size of their bankroll, they're going to be facing much stiffer players in the real world than the "fish" who dabble online.