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Online pøkêr is the game of pøkêr played over the Internet. It has been partly responsible for a huge increase in the number of pøkêr players worldwide. Christiansen Capital Advisors stated online pøkêr revenues grew from $82.7 million in 2001 to $2.4 billion in 2005, while a survey carried out by DrKW and Global Betting and Gaming Consultants asserted online pøkêr revenues in 2004 were at $1.4 billion. In a testimony before the United States Senate regarding Internet Gaming, Grant Eve, a Certified Public Accountant representing the US Accounting Firm Joseph Eve, Certified Public Accountants, estimated that one in every four dollars gambled is gambled online.Traditional (or "brick and mortar", B&M, live, land-based) venues for playing pøkêr, such as ******s and pøkêr rooms, may be intimidating for novice players and are often located in geographically disparate locations. Also, brick and mortar ******s are reluctant to promote pøkêr because it is difficult for them to profit from it. Though the rake, or time charge, of traditional ******s is often high, the opportunity costs of running a pøkêr room are even higher. Brick and mortar ******s often make much more money by removing pøkêr rooms and adding more slot machines. For example, figures from the Gaming Accounting Firm Joseph Eve estimate that pøkêr accounts for 1% of brick and mortar ****** revenues.Online venues, by contrast, are dramatically cheaper because they have much smaller overhead costs. For example, adding another table does not take up valuable space like it would for a brick and mortar ******. Online pøkêr rooms also allow the players to play for low stakes (as low as 1¢/2¢) and often offer pøkêr freeroll tournaments (where there is no entry fee), attracting beginners and/or less wealthy clientele.
Online venues may be more vulnerable to certain types of fraud, especially collusion between players. However, they have collusion detection abilities that do not exist in brick and mortar ******s. For example, online pøkêr room security employees can look at the hand history of the cards previously played by any player on the site, making patterns of behavior easier to detect than in a ****** where colluding players can simply fold their hands without anyone ever knowing the strength of their holding. Online pøkêr rooms also check players' IP addresses in order to prevent players at the same household or at known open proxy servers from playing on the same tables. Digital device fingerprinting also allows pøkêr sites to recognize and block players who create new accounts in attempts to circumvent prior account bans, restrictions and closures.

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