As any player who plays live tournaments knows, part of the enjoyment of the game is sitting down with some friendly faces, and having an enjoyable evening playing cards. This side of the game is perhaps one of the things that has helped it grow into the phenomenon it is today.

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Thousands of players turn up for the World Series each year, and although many of them are there to simply make money, you do not get the same jesting around and talking between the more lively characters at a table, in any other game.

Of course this part of the game gives an extra dimension to the play itself, and is unique to poker. You do not for instance, see chess champion Gary Kasparov laughing and saying " I know why you moved that bishop there, this is how you’re trying to set up your checkmate" or berating his opponent for a poor move before crushing him with a deft movement of his hand. But this is poker, and you will sure see this kind of banter from the likes of Phil Hellmuth and co.

Great players in the past have used the social side of poker to their advantage, with Mike Caro, saying that a man you have been very kind and friendly to moments before, is always easier to bluff on the next hand.
Whatever it’s possible advantages, or the joys that pokers social side gives the game, the online world can never recreate this feeling of enjoying a drink and a game of poker with friends. For this reason amongst others, I feel that live poker will always be the best form of the game.