Poker News
3D Online Poker
By Poker Man
Sep 14, 2008

Even before the rage with which online gambling entered the entertainment market could die, adding fuel to the fire, 3D Poker has revolutionized the online gambling culture. Crossing all unimaginable limits, 3D Poker has introduced an interactive and almost realistic three dimensional environment to poker rooms allowing players to now experience a simulated and virtually live casino game.

While online poker was already among the favorites of most players thanks to the fact that this game not only offers most winning chances, but is also among the most interestingly strategic yet simple casino games; this new transformation that will give players an additional feel of the gambling environment is truly an innovative enhancement.

As any poker player would undoubtedly agree, poker is not a game they play only for the money aspect. Its intimidating and charged environment along with co-players’ styles, body language and persona add to the overall experience of this highly popular casino game. While online casinos earlier provided players with a purely gambling platform, three dimensional graphics added to online gambling will now allow players to enjoy poker not only through skill, focus and strategy but also make it a more rewarding and enjoyable experience by integrating their traditional tactics of intimidation and taunting.

Though different online poker sites provide players with different 3D options to enhance their experience, in general, 3D online poker allows players to create their customized online characters with detail given to every aspect ranging from broad ones like apparels, sex and color to detailed facial features like eye color, width of chin, hairstyle or even length of nose. Not only this, once players have saved their online avatar’s image, players also have the option to change their unique online avatar’s clothes, shoes or accessories as and when they feel like. This way, players can not only be identified through their image’s face but also can remove monotony from their online image.

While online casinos like True Poker allow players to create their avatars in various options like a robot, an alien, a James Bond-like character or a cowboy, apart from players’ individual images, True Poker also provides various backgrounds to change the whole environment. ther are some sites in which players can enter virtual casino lobbies, choose tables and even get the game table’s view from different angles. Many sites like PKR also give players the option to play more than one game at a time.

Using VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), numerous sites have added facilities of allowing conversations while playing games. Here too, with more than what can be expected, many sites offer players to select their preferred language depending on which they can choose from available poker tables. While this is really an added advantage for players, those who do not wish to use this opportunity can of course choose to be silent. However, as previously mentioned, taunting and bullying is an integral part of real life poker and players will undoubtedly play VoIP conversations in their favor.

Completely animated, 3D Poker has been compared to earlier sports software which allowed players to select a pre-designed avatar for fighting in the ring. However, it must be remembered that those games were, firstly played against the computer, secondly, not online and most importantly, gave players zero scope for customizing their avatars.

While 3D online poker can be further enhanced beyond imagination, there are various sites that allow players to either express victory by raising their hand or loss by hanging their face in shame. Certain sites even go to the limits of complete customization by allowing players to upload pictures of their own faces, edit few or all features and build their avatars around it. With such enhanced animation and graphic facilities, 3D Online Poker is surely something that professional and experienced players look forward to as they can play poker from their homes without compromising either on the poker environment or the feeling of playing on an actual table. Surely a boon to lovers of the poker game, 3D Poker is every poker player’s dream come true.