The Good ol' days of easy depositing are back for U.S. online poker players!

I have been excited to do a post about duplicate poker for a while now, mainly because I've wanted to use this pic of duplicate babes for something... but also because the concept is pretty cool and I think that the ease of depositing methods will be good for U.S. players.

Here's an article that explains the concept of Duplicate Poker. It's definately worth checking out.

How Well Do You Play the Six Seat?

Start with your normal multi-table poker tournament. Now, take away the luck factor. Take away the bad beats. What do you have left? The answer is: a true skill game that just happens to be played online and legally in the United States.

Duplicate Poker, the nation's only U.S. based online poker site, launched late last year to a mix of reviews. Some thought the concept of poker without luck was preposterous, while others thought it was genius.

At first glance the style of tournament play at Duplicate Poker might seem a little confusing, but once you grasp the (very) easy to understand concept, you are left with a game of skill that can win you thousands.

Here's the simple concept that you need to understand: while each hand is played against the other players at your table, you are collecting points based on how you fair against the people sitting in your seat at the other tables. For example, if you are in the six seat, you are essentially playing against all of the people sitting in the six seats at other tables.

Here's the kicker - all of the tables are dealt the exact same cards each hand that is played and each hand is started with every player having the same number of chips. Now you have nothing to whine about! There is no more complaining about cold cards or bad luck. It's all about pure poker skills now. Can you make more money with AK than the other guys sharing your position? Can you lay down KK when you know your beat? Can the other players at the other tables? Play the hand better than other players sharing your position at the other tables and you win tournament points.

Anybody with a brain can excel and win money playing at Duplicate Poker. The game is played just like normal Texas hold'em and the concept of winning is essentially the same too - win as many chips as possible in the hands that you win and lose as few chips as possible in the hands that you don't win. Sounds like a silly thing to say, but you would be surprised as to how many people do not practice that thought concept (in any type of poker)!

Perhaps the best part is that your credit card will work at Duplicate Poker! Gone are the days of waiting for some offshore company to draw funds from your checking account. Duplicate Poker is 100% legal in the United States and that allows them to accept MasterCard, Visa, and American Express.

Duplicate Poker also has cash games. Cash games are played similarly to the tournaments; you start each hand with the same amount of chips as everybody else and your wager is actually against other players that share your position (and are being dealt the exact same cards as you) at the other tables.

Just like the offshore poker sites, Duplicate Poker offers a number of different buy-in tournaments and cash games. Create a good poker playing strategy and you will win money.