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Basic Poker Rules and Information

Poker is played throughout the world, but it is probably still most popular in its country of origin, the USA. For a good introduction to Poker, refer to the Poker FAQ, which is associated with the newsgroup rec.gambling.poker. Other useful discussion forums are hosted by Two Plus Two Publishing and the United Poker Forum. Beginners may also want to refer to my page on the ranking of poker hands.

For those interested in the History of Poker, especially its origins and predecessors, here is David Parlett's article setting out what is known on this topic.

An excellent starting point to find all kinds of Poker information is Dan Kimberg's Serious Poker Page. Dan also maintains a comprehensive dictionary of Poker jargon, and another very useful dictionary is provided by the Planet Poker site.

Here is a link to Jerry Cooley's Basic Poker Rules, and here is Peter Sarrett's Glossary of Poker Terms.

A very detailed set of rules covering playing procedure, how to deal with irregularities, and so on, can be found on Bob Ciaffone's web site. He provides comprehensive rules for card rooms and for home games. Joe Smith has published a web-friendly version of these rules.

CardPlayer.com is the web site of the fortnightly print magazine Card Player. As well as an on line version of the magazine, and an archive of back issues it provides odds calculators, an online poker analyst, a huge forum, and many other resources. A discounted subscription to Card Player magazine is available though this link.

With the permission of the author, the full text of the book "Poker, A Guaranteed Income For Life by using the Advanced Concepts of Poker" by Frank R. Wallace is available for reading on line.

From Total Poker Pro you can download a free 206-page e-book on Texas Hold'em strategy and odds.

Pokerlistings is an online poker guide and directory with information on online poker rooms, tournaments, bonuses, rules, strategy and many other resources. Pokerlistings is also available in British, Swedish, Danish and Spanish editions.

The Pokertips.org site gives rules and strategy for Texas Hold'em, general advice on on-line poker, and has useful reviews of on-line poker rooms, poker news and a forum.

Internet Poker - Tony G's Poker News site offers rules, reviews of poker rooms, and a poker news service.

Steve Badger's Play Winning Poker site offers news, strategies and links to other useful information.

Here is the online version of Stan Sludikoff's Poker Player newspaper.

The International Poker Federation provides poker player ratings and tournament inforamtion as well as strategy articles.

The Poker Strategy site provides free strategy advice on low limit hold 'em and 7 card stud, a friendly and active poker forum, and reviews of on line poker rooms.

The Poker TV Guide provides current schedules of television programmes about poker in USA, UK and Sweden.

The Gaming Gurus site includes a collection of rules for poker variations and a guide to online poker.

The Poker Pistols site has poker rules, strategy guides for beginners and advanced players, comparative reviews of online poker rooms and a forum.

The Online Texas Holdem Poker site has information and advice on poker games, especially Texas Holdem, reviews of online poker rooms, ans a collection of other poker resources.

Mike Greenberg's sites Top Texas Hold'em, Top Stud Poker and Top Omaha offer strategy advice on these three games.

Inside Poker and Poker Player are UK-based online magazines offering poker tips and strategies and information on various poker games and players.

The Online Poker 777 site has a useful glossary and offers poker rules, strategy and links to online poker rooms.

The LaunchPoker site offers poker rules, tips, anecdotes and links.

Zeb Poker is a French language site providing an extensive guide to all aspects of poker including rules, variations, strategy, tournaments and online play.

Laurent Bourelly's French language Partie-de-Poker.com provides Texas Hold'em rules, tips, news and other resources.

Poker World 24 is a German language site providing an introduction to poker with rules, tips, a glossary, software and online poker room reviews, a forum and other resources.

Poker Institut is a German language site providing poker news and an introduction to poker with rules, tips and other resources.

The Swedish site Spela Poker has rules, news, online poker room and tournament information and a forum, plus an online shop with a large selection of DVDs and poker pooks in Swedish and English.

There are the Swedish language sites PokerSpel.org for basic poker rules and information and pokerturneringar.net for information on how tournaments are played.

The Finnish language site Pokerisivut.com has poker information and advice, online poker room reviews and a forum.

KasinoKing's Poker Regler page has rules in Danish for several versions of Poker and some other casino games.

Pokerkursus is a Danish language site with poker information, advice and other resources including a forum.

The Estonian site Pokkeriklubi Tallinn has information in English and several other languages about poker in Estonia and the other Baltic States.

Texas Hold'em

The site TexasHoldem-Poker.com provides an introduction to Texas Hold'em Poker for beginners, some pages on strategy, and other useful information and links.

TexasHold-emPoker.com provides Texas Holdem rules, helpful strategy advice, forums and other information and links.

Tyson's Flop Turn River site provides strategy advice for low-stakes no limit Texas Hold'em players.

Greg Mallon's Poker Decision site concentrates on low stakes no limit Hold'em strategy.

Matthew Hilger's Internet Texas Hold em site offers help with general Texas Holdem poker strategy and concepts and includes a useful Starting Hand Chart; also news and a forum.

James Yates has written a useful free Texas Hold'em strategy guide: Introduction to Texas Hold'em Poker.

Arild Thorsby's NL-holdem site specialises in No Limit Texas Holdem strategy and is available in English and Norwegian.

The poker pages of the Netbettor site include a strategy section with a useful tutorial on Texas Holdem, as well as information and links for various online poker rooms and tournaments.

The Poker Check Raise site provides Texas Holdem rules and an online strategy guide.

Godfrey Daniel's Online Texas Hold'em Tips site offers tips and strategy especially geared to the low limit online Hold'em player.

Texas Holdem Poker - a Texas Holdem resource guide featuring rules, strategies and tips.

The Mastering Holdem site provides Texas Holdem rules and a guide to strategy.

Jason's Texas Holdem Strategies Online site gives advice on playing Texas Holdem from game selection and assessment of opponents to betting, tells and tournament play.

The Beat 6 Max site specialises in providing advice on playing Texas Hold'em at tables with 6 or fewer players.

The Poker Strategy Tactics site is a collection of articles by Mike Goldmine on poker strategy and tactics, focussing mainly on Texas Hold'em.

The Classic Holdem site offers Texas Holdem rules, tips and other resources.

The Hold'em-online site provides advice on how to play Fixed Limit Texas Hold'em.

The Online Poker Beginners Guide site provides advice for beginners, mainly on Texas Holdem.

Jerry Flattum's Poker ABC is a guide to Texas Hold'em for beginners and intermediate players.

The French language Bet-Poker site offers an extensive introduction to Texas Hold'em rules, procedures and strategies.

The Jugar Poker site provides basic rules and strategy of Texas Hold'em in Spanish.

Poker lessons and tutorials

King Cobra Poker offers a series of poker lessons. The first few lessons are free; to obtain additional lessons you have to sign up through King Cobra to play at one or more on-line poker sites.

Dan Strelnick's Poker Mentor site teaches how to play online Texas Holdem for profit. Students sign up through Poker Mentor at an on-line poker room, receive detailed advice and statistics to aid their play, and can submit played hands for comment and analysis.

Rick Braddy's e-book Secrets of Winning Sit & Go Tournaments teaches techniques for success in on-line Texas Holdem tournaments in seven lessons: Fundamentals; Position; Adjusting to changing blinds and number of players; Heads-Up technique; Beating aggressive players; Tells; Bluffing and Stealing.

Sit n Go Pro is an instructional video and handbook by Johnny Rothman on how to win Sit and Go Poker tournaments.

Jason Spry offers an on line Dealer Training course, a less expensive alternative to land based courses for those who would like to run their own poker games or aspire to a creer as a professsional poker dealer.

Bill Fried's book For Winners Only introduces a "Pocket Scoring System" which can be used to evaluate hands in Texas Holdem (and some other casino poker games) and guide you on when to raise, call or fold. Cheater Cards summarising the system are also available.

The Poker Tournament Strategy section of the sure2profit site has a series of short articles about poker betting strategies.

Poker discussion

Nick Kisberg's Cardschat forum offers forums for discussion of card games in general and poker games in particular.

The Bet The Pot Poker site has an active Forum for discussion of Poker topics

Tyler Cruz runs the PokerForums.org site, which provides forums for discussion of poker strategy and techniques, along with various other resources such as poker site reviews and a glossary.

The web site Pokerconduct.com is dedicated to exposing corruption and cheating in online poker rooms. It offers a news forum, chat rooms and a player help desk, offering free assistance to members with problems they may encounter at any poker site, including the withholding of funds.

The Costa del Poker Forum is a poker social networking site where players can discuss poker, join teams and play against each other in sponsor's site.

NeverwinPoker describes itself as an uncensored poker forum, where all your gossip, unconfirmed stories, and comments about any poker scam or scandal are acceptable and very welcome.

The following sites cater for online poker players who use Macintosh computers. Each provides reviews of Macintosh compatible poker rooms, discussion forums, and other relevant resources.

Your Poker Hands - a site where you can submit your poker stories and anecdotes about interesting or unusual hands you have played.

Poker Affiliate World provides information and discussion forums for poker room affiliates - webmasters who advertise poker rooms in return for a commission on the players they introduce.

Poker Variants

While poker players who play in casinos, tournaments and online tend to specialise in a small number of games - mostly Texas Hold'em but also Omaha, 7-Card Stud and a few others - most home poker games are probably still played in the traditional format known as "dealer's choice". The dealer of each hand specifies the poker variant that will be played in that hand. The variant chosen can be anything that is fair and that the dealer can clearly explain to the players. Some of the better known variants can be found listed below, and yet more on other sites through the links provided.

Mike's Poker Pages contain a collection of rules for well over 100 poker variants.

Jerry Cooley has maintains a set of pages on Poker Variants, which he based on the collection maintained by Peter Sarrett. The variants are classified into four types:

Peter Sarrett's Poker Variants page can be seen at http://gamereport.com/poker/index.html.

The Mongoose Online Poker Rules site includes descriptions of several Poker Variants as well as links to online poker rooms.

  • Steve Hopkins' MaxJackpots site includes a collection of rules of poker variants.

    Here is an alphabetical list of poker variants, with links mostly to Jerry Cooley's pages, and in some cases to other sites:

    Abyssinia - see The Price is Right
    All For One or One For All
    Anaconda
    Auction
    Badugi
    Baseball
    Buddha's Folly
    Caribbean Poker
    Cincinnati
    Chicago
    Church
    Cowpie Poker
    Dakota - variant of Mexican Stud
    Dirty Schultz
    Elevator
    English Stud
    Five Card Draw
    Follow the Queen
    The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
    Grocery Store Dots
    Guts
    Have a Heart
    Henway
    H.O.R.S.E.
    Howdy Doody
    Indian Poker
    Iron Cross
    Jacks to Open, Trips to Win
    Jack the Shifter
    Lame Brain Pete
    Let It Ride
    Mexican Stud
    Mexican Sweat
    Midnight Baseball
    Napalm
    Omaha
    Pai Gow Poker
    Pass The Trash
    Pick a Partner
    Pineapple
    The Price is Right
    Psycho
    Second Hand High
    Selection/Rejection
    Sequence
    Spit in the Ocean
    Strip Poker
    Stud Poker
    Ten
    Texas Hold 'Em
    Three Five Seven
    Tic Tac Toe
    Trees
    Wall Street
    Want It? Want It? Got It!
    Yukon Hold'Em
    Z

    Yet more variants can be found on the Poker Variations page of the Invented Games section of this web site. There is of course no end to the different versions that can be devised.

    There is a separate page for Video Poker information and links.

    Face to Face Poker Games

    The All Vegas Poker site provides a comprehensive resource for poker players visiting Las Vegas, Nevada, with poker room reviews, news and tournament schedules.

    For people looking for a live Poker game in the UK, here is the UK Poker page which surveys the opportunities for playing casino-organised Poker.

    The Pokertoernooien site carries information about forthcoming live poker tournaments in the Netherlands.

    The Poker Search site is a guide to Casino poker in the USA, which aims eventually to expand to give worldwide coverage.

    Poker USA is a guide to casinos in the USA that offer poker games, with addresses and reviews, organised by state.

    Pokeroi.com provides another directory of casino poker in the USA.

    Your Poker City gives information about dates and venues of live Texas Hold'em tournaments in Manchester, UK.

    The Chip Sharks site offers the facility for poker players looking for face to face games to contact other players and find games in their local area.

    PokerEh.com provides information about Poker in Canada, including tournaments and a service for finding and hosting home games.

    The Hands On Poker site lists information about local poker games in the USA and Canada, covering home poker games, brick and mortar poker establishment events, and online poker tournaments.

    The Kick Ass Poker site, home of the Atlanta Poker Club, has news, strategy articles, poker information and information about local tournaments.

    All In Poker Tournaments specialises in hosting poker tournaments for charities, corproations and private clubs in Georgia, USA. Their web site also provides news on poker in Georgia, and many other resources.

    Poker Eagles (formerly Blacksburg Poker) provides information on how to host home poker games. It also proveds poker rules and strategy advice for players of all skill levels, plus a forum and various quizzes and other forms of poker entertainment.

    Mega Poker organises monthly Texas Holdem tournaments in Beverwijk, Netherlands. The site also includes poker rules and other information in Dutch.

    Pokerlistings.com provides a list of sites with information on face to face poker tournaments.

    Richard Albrecht's Poker Parties Inc organises poker tournaments and casino theme parties anywhere in the USA. They specialise in corporate events and will also organise private parties or rent equipment, trained dealers and staff to host any occasion.

    The Home Series of Poker site provides a free service by which the organisers of home poker tournaments can record by league and season and create player statistics and rankings.

    K9Poker.com provides a directory where you can find local players, home games and face to face tournaments in the USA, and announce your own games and tournaments.

    On the City Poker Games site, players can find home poker games listed by city, mostly in the USA. If their city isn't listed, then they can go to "other cities" and search by zip code.

    Pokermashup is a map based site listing live real money poker games in the USA. By entering a ZIP code you can find the nearest listings with driving directions.

    LocalPokerList provides a service to help local poker players in the USA to find and host local poker games.

    The World Series of Poker 2005 site provides information about this tournament, as well as some historical information about WSOP and a tournament poker strategy guide.

    Live at the Bike provides live webcasts of real cash poker games with commentary.

    Poker Video Online has a collection of poker related video clips, including scenes from games, short tutorials and tricks with cards and chips.

    PokerTVideos is a collection of videos clips of various live poker events, taken mostly from YouTube.

    On Line Poker

    Mark Madner has written a useful overview of Online Poker and its history.

    Legalize U.S. Poker Online

    In October 2006 the US government passed legislation restricting banks from dealing with online gambling sites. As a result several major online poker rooms have stopped accepting deposits from US players. Anthony Von Ducci is organising an online petition to legalize online poker in the USA.

    It is possible to play Poker live with other players over the Internet using the IRC Poker Dealer. Further information about this service can be found on the IRC poker page of the rec.gambling.poker FAQ.

    Everest Poker is an on line poker room whose interface is available in 11 languages: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Everest Poker offers the widest selection of satellites to the WSOP, WPT, and EPT main events. With their international focus, they also run satellites to many of the local European tournaments. Since Everest is a growing room, there are fewer players and a better chance to win your buy-in to these events. The Everest Poker School, established in 2005, provides a tutorial and a training room for beginners.

    Established in 1999, PokerRoom.com became the world's third largest online poker room. No download is required and users of Macintosh and Linux computers are welcome. In 2006 HoldemPoker.com was merged with PokerRoom.com to create a single room.

    Full Tilt Poker offers a wide variety of poker games including No Limit, Pot Limit, and Fixed Limit Hold 'em as well as varieties of Omaha, Stud, and Razz. There are ring games, Sit & Go tournaments, and multi-table tournaments. Software downloads are available for both Mac and PC.

    Skill-based Texas Hold'em. Play U.S. Legal Skill-based Poker. Get $25 for First Time Users. DuplicatePoker.com . By offering a version of Texas Hold'em in which players' results are based entirely on comparison with the reults of players who are dealt identical cards on other tables, in a style similar to Duplicate Bridge, DuplicatePoker.com have created a skill-based poker game which although played for money is not classed as a gambling game, and is therefore claimed to be legal in most US jurisdictions.

    Launched in 2007, the poker room Gnuf.com aims to create an environment that is friendly and fun, with an emphasis on interaction with other users through forums, profiles or blogs, and in future also photos and videos. Holdem, Stud and Omaha games are offered in limit, pot limit and no limit form. Players can use the "Instant Play Client" through which they can play in a web browser window or can download a client that allows up to 10 tables to be played simultaneously.

    Licensed in Panama, Poker Host offers Texas Holdem and Omaha. They accept US players and offer to host private tournaments for afilliates.

    Wingows is a relatively new UK-owned poker room offering Holdem, Omaha and 7-card Stud ring games and tournaments. Promotions include an immediate bonus of $5 for new players, the "Wingows Forever Bonus" at the rate of 20% of your contribution to the rake, "Real Chips" by which chips won in "play for fun" games can be converted to up to $40 worth of chips to use on real money tables, and a regular "Wingows Live" tournament with a Las Vegas package as the prize.

    Walker Poker offers 12 online poker games: Texas Hold'em, Badugi, 2-7 Lowball, A-5, 5-card stud, 5-card draw, Razz, 7-card stud, 7-card stud hi-lo, H.O.R.S.E, Omaha, Omaha hi-lo.

    Noxwin Poker features Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or better, Soko (5-card stud with 4-flushes and 4-straights), 7-card stud, 7-card stud hi-lo, 5-card draw, 2-7 triple draw, Americana and Telesina. It offers torunaments, cash rewards for regular players and a bad beat jackpot.

    A member of the Digital Gaming Network, PokerEon offers Texas Holdem, Omaha, 7 Card stud and 5 Card Draw poker, plus a range of tournaments.

    As well as an online poker room, GutShot.comGutShot.com offers daily poker articles, event coverage, an odds calculator, a beginners guide, and a place to list own home games. Gutshot also runs a poker club in Clerkenwell Road, London, England.

    Vegas Poker 24/7Vegas 24/7, licensed and regulated in Canada, offers multi-player Texas Holdem, Omaha High, Omaha Hi/Lo, Razz, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo plus Sit and Go and Multi Table Tournaments.

    Paradise Poker is a well established online Poker room offering Texas Hold'em, Omaha High, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Card Stud, 7 Stud Hi/Lo and Hold'em Tournaments.

    PartyPoker.com, launched in 2001 was for a while the world's fastest growing online poker site. It offers a variety of games and tournaments, and hosts the annual "PartyPoker.com Million" tournament.

    Titan Poker is the leading poker room in the PlayTech 'iPoker network', and provides interfaces in English, French, German and Italian. New players who use the bonus code SHPAGAT with their first deposit will be given a free copy of the Gamecalc odds checker program as well as $100 match bonus up to $500.

    Tiger Gaming provides on line Texas Holdem, 7-Card Stud and Guts games. Also Pan, Chinese Poker and Big Two.

    UltimateBet offers a range of free poker games - not for money - at UltimateBet.tv and poker games for money at ultimatebet.com.

    Poker4Ever, licensed in Malta, offers Texas Holdem, Omaha and 7 Card Stud.

    Launched in 2004, Noble Poker offers Texas Hold'em and Omaha games at various levels and limits. It is part of the iPoker network, using PlayTech software. Guaranteed prize pools of $200, $500 and even $2500 with low buy-ins are offered daily, plus satellite tournaments, giving winners the chance to participate in major poker events worldwide.

    Pitbull Poker is an independent poker room offering Texas Holdem and Omaha games using Flash technology, so that no software installation is needed to play. They offer a Poker Leagues feature, in which players compete against each other and are ranked based on their final positions over a series of Tournaments, the top players sharing in an overall prize pool at the end of each season.

    At Bamba Poker you can play a wide selection of Poker games for Euros: Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Ohama Hi-Lo, Soko (5-card stud with 4-flushes and 4-straights), 7-Card-Stud, 7-Card-Stud Hi-Lo, 5-Card-Draw and Deuce to Seven Triple-Draw. Also two stud variations using a 32-card deck: Americana and Telesina. Most players are from Scandinavia but players from all over the world can take part. The interface is available in English, Danish and Swedish, and soon in Italian, Russian, German and Finnish as well. There is a progressive Bad Beat Jackpot that is often larger than EUR 5,000, and a VIP point shop where you can buy books, Ipods, casino trips, etc. for VIP points. Bamba Poker is a member of the 24H Network, formerly known as B2B poker.

    Moxpoker.com is another member of 24H network offering Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Ohama Hi-Lo, Soko (5-card stud with 4-flushes and 4-straights), 7-Card-Stud, 7-Card-Stud Hi-Lo, 5-Card-Draw, Deuce to Seven Triple-Draw, Americana and Telesina. The interface is available in nine languages.

    UK-based Aces Royal offers online Texas Holdem poker for real money against live opponents using a mobile phone.

    Unibet offers an online poker room based on Microgaming software, where you can play Texas Hold'Em, Five Card Draw Poker, Five Card Stud, Seven Card Stud and Omaha.

    At the UK-based Ladbrokes Poker School you can play Texas Hold'Em, Omaha or Stud poker on line at cash tables or in tournaments.

    Mobile Poker Now offers online poker against live opponents using a mobile phone, using software from Mobile Gaming Now. Currently only play for fun is supported, but the platform has the potential to allow money play in future.

    Dream World Poker is a free online poker room whose focus is to allow players to create and test poker playing agents (bots) that will interact with other players and agents.

    Euro Poker has interfaces in English, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish, enabling players from many countires to play Texas Holdem or Omaha together, at any time of day or night.

    Celeb Poker offers the opportunity to play online poker and chat with celebrities from around the world.

    Royal Vegas Poker is an online poker room hosted by Lou Krieger, joint author of Poker for Dummies. It is also the platform at which the College Poker Championship is played.

    Carbon Poker offers an unusually wide range of online poker games for money, including Texas Hold'em, Omaha Hi or Hi/Lo, 5-card Draw, 5-card Stud, 7-card Stud Hi or Hi/Lo, Razz, H.O.R.S.E., A-5 or 2-7 Lowball and Badugi.

    At poker.com you can play for fun or real money. Instant payouts using Neteller; $5000 guaranteed in daily freeroll tournaments.

    Sun Poker offers Free Roll tournaments, a "Bad Beat Jackpot" and a "Royal Flush Jackpot" and a £30K ($56,000) Guaranteed Tournament every Sunday.

    Revolutionary Poker is an online poker room that pledges to donate a proportion of its profits to charity.

    Stacks Poker is a new poker room, due to launch in late 2005. In addition to a normal 2D interface they offer an animated 3D interface showing the players as avatars seated around the poker table.

    Doyles Room is managed by Doyle "Texas Dolly" Brunson (World Champion of Poker 1976 and 1977) together with Mike Caro. Games offered include Texas Holdem, Omaha and Badugi (four-card three-draw low poker).

    The poker room Bugsy’s ClubBugsy’s Club also provides tuition through the associated Poker School Online Poker School Online site and articles and tournament results through PokerPages.comPokerPages.com.

    A member of the iPoker network using Playtech software, CD Poker offers Texas Hold'em (No Limit, Pot Limit, and Limit), Omaha and Omaha Hi Lo. All games can be played for fun or for money in US Dollars, Euro or Sterling, and there are regular tournaments and freerolls.

    Midas Touch Poker is a member of the Tridx network, offering poker games for fun or money. They operate a league systme that enables players to accumulate bonus dollars while playing free games and tournaments, and there are facilities to set up private games and tournaments.

    PokerShare is an online poker room whose players become beneficiaries of the "Poker Share Trust" and earn Share Points which can be redeemed for cash or other benefits.

    Real Money Online Texas Hold’em Tournaments: Tower Gaming Win real money, play online hold’em. Play poker tournaments at Tower Gaming.

    At RedKings your can play Texas Hold'em, Stud, Omaha and Draw poker.

    9 Poker is a member of the 9am.com casino and sportsbook network, offering Texas Holdem and 7 Card Stud online.

    Based in Malta, A-Winning-Hand.com is an online poker room offering Texas Hold'em, Omaha and Stud games and tournaments.

    Poker770.com is a French language online poker room with betting in Euros. An English language version is available at Poker770.co.uk and a Spanish version at poker770.es.

    Bodog offers online poker for free or for real money, including multitable, freeroll tournaments and qualifying tournaments for the World Series of Poker and World Poker Tournament.

    BetUS Poker offers online Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, 7-card Stud and 7-card Stud Hi-Lo with various tournaments and freerolls.

    At Prime Poker you can play Texas Hold'em ring games and tournaments. The software is available as a download for Windows or as Java for other platforms.

    At Hollywood Poker you can play on-line poker with Hollywood celebrities.

    Third Bullet, a member of the True Poker network, has an "underground" poker room theme and operates a ranking system with various levels of player benefits.

    Triple Jack Poker is an online poker room that claims to be safe for the whole family. The game is Texas Hold'em for play money only, with animated cartoon players, side bets, and the opportunity to throw tomatoes and pies at your opponents.

    Planet Poker offers an on-line game of Texas Hold'em at set stakes.

    Backgammon Masters - Poker offers an online poker game and a collection of brief articles about poker.

    igotpoker.com offers Texas Holdem, 7 Card Stud, Omaha and Badugi and claims to pay particular attention to ensuring security and preventing collusion between players.

    Get Minted Poker, run by the Cashcade group based in Alderney, Channel Islands, offers a UK-oriented on line poker room, using Pounds Sterling as the currency.

    The Poker Pulse site offers live statistics of the numbers of people playing in various on-line poker sites.

    Poker.com is a portal with online poker rooms reviews, plus information on poker tournaments, poker variants and other resources.

    Pokerlistings.com provides reviews of numerous on line poker rooms.

    Poker 4 America specialises in listing online poker rooms that welcome American players.

    The site Le Poker en Ligne offers a French language guide to on-line poker rooms.

    The USA Poker Portal site offers free online multiplayer poker and blackjack games for fun. These can be customised and branded to run as part of your own web site.

    MJ's Party Poker Playing Guide offers information and help for players who use the Party Poker online poker room.

    The Poker Works site provides online poker room reviews, a tournament calendar, and strategy articles. It features a blog kept by Linda R.Geenen, a professional dealer at the Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas.

    The Online Poker Tourneys site provides a listing of regular tournaments at various online poker rooms, searchable by date and time, type of game and buy-in amount.

    TournamentMonitor.com provides a searchable schedule of online poker tournaments, plus other poker resources.

    The Poker Ranking site provides useful reviews, details and ratings of a wide range of poker rooms, as well as poker rules, tips and links.

    The Holdem Bonus site provides information and reviews of a wide range of online poker rooms.

    The Unknown Poker site specialises in reviewing smaller and less well-known online poker rooms.

    Rated Poker Sites has detailed reviews of the major online poker rooms, and provides a good introduction to online poker games and betting and tournament structures.

    Online Poker Room Reviews provides independent reviews of a selection of online poker rooms, plus various resources such as rules, news articles and odds calculators.

    The Which Poker site has live statistics on the number of players in each of a range of on line poker rooms, plus a searchable database of upcoming online tournaments.

    The Poker Yap site has up to date listings of online freeroll tournaments, online tournaments with a prize fund of at least $5000 and new player bonuses offered by various online poker rooms.

    Casino Software India can provide custom-written poker software for running a range of online poker games, and offers features such as a webcam interface and voice chat.

    Net Poker, from NetIntellGames, allows you to play against a computer opponent or with a human opponent over the Internet, LAN, modem or direct connection.

    The following sites also offer on-line poker games:


    Poker software is now listed on a separate page.

    Suppiers of Poker Books and Equipment are now listed on a separate page.

    See also: Other Poker WWW Sites for Information, Discussion and Links for links to further sites with poker information and resources.


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