The popularity of playing poker on the Internet in spite of thefact the practice exists in legal limbo, is staggering. By someestimates it's a $2 billion dollar a year industry, with more thanone million players going online to play each month.
I've always considered it somewhat paradoxical that for a game inwhich a talent to "read" your opponents' emotions are as integral tosuccess as skill, poker attracts the same fascination in the virtualworld as in the real one.
It is this very phenomenon that may fuel the appeal of a newcomputerized poker table that eliminates the need for a live dealerand real cards and chips, just like the Internet version, but …
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