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PDC Poker is a very very good online poker room. The new owners are determined to spend as much money as is required to compete with the big boys - like offering $5000 in freeroll goodness every day!
Their relatively late entry to the market means that they have an up to...
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Play with the pros! Full Tilt Poker is taking a shot at the big time. So far they've been doing almost everything right, and are now one of the top three sites in terms of active players.
They've got the big name endorsements. More than that, people like Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Howard...
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| Overall: 8.2 |
Stars has recently claimed the title of most popular online poker room, with nearly double its closest competators at any one time. PokerStars is also home of the 2003-2005 World Series of Poker champions: Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker, and most recently Joe Hachem.
Why is Stars growing faster than the average?
Well, they've...
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| Overall: 8.2 |
The online home of Phil Hellmuth!! - The world champion of 1989 (and of exclamtion marks, see his book) plays at Ultimate Bet.
Ultimate Bet is a part of the second tier of poker rooms (that's what I call the five or six top rooms that aren't Party poker). This is...
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| Overall: 7.8 |
This is a financially secure (although fairly small) cardroom with reliable software. vipPoker comes from vipSports, a large online sportsbook.
Cashouts from this organisation are processed "as quickly as possible". I'm yet to work out what this really means. I've had a couple of quick cashouts, and a couple of really slow...
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| Overall: 7.5 |
This is the poker wing of Casino On Net (one of the big boys of the online casino world). This is mostly a good thing, because it provides a steady flow of gamblers who just want to play that holdem thing with the money they won at blackjack.
Trust me though, there...
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| Overall: 7.5 |
Playtech, makers of one the the big two casino packages are moving into the poker market with the Ipoker network. Noble Poker is run by one of the Internet's largest casino groups, so they are here to stay, and know what they are doing.
Playtech have put together a remarkably bug free...
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The greatest Texas Holdem player ever, Doyle Brunson, has finally jumped on the internet bandwagon and opened his own poker site. Doyle's room is part of the Tribeca Poker Network. Tribeca provides poker software to online casinos and sportsbooks, but Doyle's seems to be its most popular skin.
The Doyle's room players...
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| Overall: 7.2 |
Forget the Carribean - Sun Poker has shortened it's name. This tournament-focussed brand is a part of the Wagerlogic network. Crypto, as bonus hunters affectionately call them, provide software to a number of online casinos and sportsbooks - EACH of which will offer you a monthly bonus!
Because Crypto provides the software...
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William Hill, a large British bookmaker, has a poker room that is a part of the Wagerlogic network. Crypto, as bonus hunters affectionately call them, provide software to a number of online casinos and sportsbooks - EACH of which will offer you a monthly bonus!
Because Crypto provides the software for casinos...
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| Overall: 6.8 |
Another casino organisation tries to get a piece of the poker boom.
Virtual City use the Microgaming (Prima) Software. Prima run the poker rooms for a lot of online casinos, and total a reasonable size poker site. The players aren't bad, but they aren't good. I'm not a great poker player, but...
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| Overall: 6.8 |
This is a casino organisation who decided to get a piece of the poker boom. Some casino-based sites are good, or even excellent, but a lot are just sucky, "me-too" offerings. When I first visited Golden Tiger, they were just that. To their credit, they have turned it around in recent...
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| Overall: 6.8 |
There's a new kid in town. CD Poker is the expansion of Club Dice Casino into the online poker market.
Playtech, makers of one the the big two casino packages created CD poker with the Ipoker network. They are here to stay, and know what they are doing.
Playtech have put together a...
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Paradise Poker is one of the top poker sites in size and they have some very nice software and promotions. It's paradise, baby!
Paradise's players are about average for the internet - a few are really terrible, mostly pretty bad, a few solid ones, and the ocassional very good player. There's enough...
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| Overall: 6.5 |
Party's cashier is very quick. Deposits are instant (no surprises there) and withdrawals are almost as fast. Typically it is less than 12 hours for neteller, and is usually about 3 or 4. This is very pleasing, especially since there have been a lot of limited term bonuses recently and I...
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| Overall: 6.2 |
Interpoker is a part of the Wagerlogic network. Crypto, as bonus hunters affectionately call them, provide software to a number of online casinos and sportsbooks - EACH of which will offer you a monthly bonus!
Because Crypto provides the software for casinos and sportsbooks, there are a lot of crazy bad players....
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| Overall: 6.0 |
Do you want a continual stream of deposit bonuses?
Well, Absolute poker are industry-famous for offering reload bonuses almost every week. They are also growing rapdily and are closing in on a top 5 spot in terms of size.
Absolute poker's software looks good, but is still a little buggy. It's also...
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| Overall: 6.0 |
The infamous streaker-promoting, Virgin Mary sandwich buying, Golden Palace.com now has a poker room. It is part of the Tribeca Poker Network. Tribeca provides poker software to online casinos and sportsbooks.
Golden Palace players are at the same low level as pretty much everywhere. The $1-2 games are especially soft, I think...
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| Overall: 5.8 |
Classic Poker is a part of the Cryptologic network. Crypto, as we affectionately call them, provide the software for casinos and sportsbooks. This means that there are a lot of crazy bad players.
I once had a guy bet $100 into a $3 pot when I had flopped the nuts. That's...
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| Overall: 5.8 |
Welcome to Party Poker - with a cooler name, a better color scheme, but slighty worse support. Empire Poker is a 'skin' of Party, meaning they are essencially the same website, with the same player base.
Empire's cashier is very quick. Deposits are instant (no surprises there) and withdrawals are almost as...
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This was the very first place I played poker, back in the long long ago when before they offered real money games. Back then, their java games seemed, and probably were, the highest of high tech. They worked though, and taught me the basics of Holdem. I even played my first...
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Plex is part of the Wagerlogic network (Crypto). It is known for great bonus payoffs and provides software to a number of online casinos and sportsbooks - EACH of which will offer you a monthly bonus!
Because Crypto provides the software for casinos and sportsbooks, there are a lot of crazy bad...
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| Overall: 5.0 |
This room is part of the Prima Poker network also known as Microgaming. Prima run the poker rooms for a lot of online casinos, and combine into a fairly large large poker site, even if they aren't actually one site. I haven't played here, basically because the bonus isn't attractive enough.
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This is the poker end of one of the UK's largest gambling.. sorry - "betting and gaming", groups. They started as a sportsbook, and like most other sportsbooks are now grabbing thier piece of the Internet poker boom. They did this by teaming up with Prima (the poker side of Microgaming...
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Victor Chandler has added a poker room to his well-established sportsbook. It is part of the Tribeca Poker Network, which provides poker software to online casinos and sportsbooks.
Tribeca players are terrible! The $1-2 games are especially soft, I think it's because of the influx of small stakes casino players.
The first cashout...
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Bodog - home of the bottomless deposit bonus! Bodog are one of the internet's bigger sportsbooks, and like everyone else, they have opened a poker room. They are also home to the 2006 WSOP champion Jamie Gold.
The players aren't as soft in general as most sportsbook rooms because the quality of...
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Check N Raise is a smaller poker room using OnGame software.
Support are very good. For example, there was one jackass who was abusing a bad player in chat - "how could you call with that garbage", "you're going to lose all your money", you know, the sort of idiotic spouting that...
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| Overall: 3.2 |
Island Poker are a joint venture between a BVI investment fund and ADLM (one of the bigger european online gambling companies). Not surprising that a global alliance like this would offer a promotion to send you to the World Poker Tour.
Island Poker use Action Poker software. It's not one of the...
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