Food for Thought

Why do Full Tilt poker commercials talk about and demonstrate live play scenarios for an online site? Just about every commercial talks about why people play poker and most of them are about tells or situations involving live play, but are impossible to experience in online play.

Is the general public so gullible that they put together a series of commercials that play on their intelligence? My guess is that online play has too many differences to live play and this information would drive people away from online poker. Electronic data is easily manipulated and snooped but live cards are not.

Sitting at a live table has players policing the action, but online the players can only see their cards and the board. What happens electronically is completely hidden from their eyes. Did one of the other players see what I was holding? Did the dealer deal off the bottom of the deck? Online you have no idea. These are the things online poker rooms don't want to advertise.

Full Tilt presents the positives of live play while falsely giving current or new players a warm and fuzzy feeling that playing online is just as safe and secure as playing live.