There was a time when, if you wanted to work in the world of poker, you either needed to have fast hands and an uncanny ability to shuffle cards, or you needed to be a security expert with the ability to spot a thousand and one different ways of cheating.

However, as poker and gambling in general have become more high-tech and have moved to the online arena, the poker world offers a much larger array of jobs with a wide variety of skills.

For example, web developers and programmers are in great demand by poker websites to work on their complex poker games and payment systems, their membership accounts and every aspect of their websites??? functionality.

You don???t have to be a developer though; there are many opportunities for the non technical as well, such as translator jobs to take poker games and websites into other territories throughout Europe and the rest of the world. There are many jobs in online poker that require bilingual skills, so anyone who has trained with a second language would become a valuable asset.

Naturally as poker is an industry that is driven primarily by money, there are also many avenues for those experienced in affiliate marketing, both as publishers and as marketing managers. The person with the right affiliate marketing experience could make a real impact in the online poker world.

Don't think that just because poker is now a virtual game that the old skills aren???t required as well. Online poker requires security specialists just as much as the physical game, but with online poker the attention is on fraud investigation and data verification.