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Is there a connection between role playing games and online poker?

At first glance, these two pursuits may seem completely unrelated. However, there are a number of people who enjoy role playing games, both computer role playing games and more traditional ones, who also enjoy online poker quite a bit.

What do these two have in common?

Role playing and online poker: playing online
One immediately obvious connection between role playing games and online poker is that both can be played online, with real opponents, in real time.

Online poker and online role playing games can take place over years with hundreds of players. Both provide great, exciting, social entertainment without one ever having to leave their living room.

Unpredictability
One of the appealing things about a role playing game is that you never know what is going to happen next. Each session brings new challenges, new adventures, and new rewards.

Similarly, every session of online poker can be different. Whether you win or lose, how big a run you go on, how the cards materialize, you are always trying to deal with a great deal of uncertainty and handle unfamiliar situations as they evolve.

A different world
The most exciting aspect of a role playing game is that it takes you into a different world. For a few hours you can become an ancient warrior, a secret agent or a space pirate. You can venture into universes that normal people can only imagine.

In the same way, the poker room environment is like a different world. An honest librarian may turn into a deceitful bluffer. A loving mother of three may apply a hyper aggressive game style to intimidate and dominate her opponents.

Not everyone who plays role playing games will get into online poker, and not all poker players will be creating fantasy characters to explore imaginary worlds. But there are definitely things to enjoy and learn about each type of recreation.

If you’re engaged in one of these, you should definitely give the other a try. It’s easy and safe to try a game of free poker in one of the many poker freerolls that are being offered every hour of the day on any of the very popular poker rooms online.