Online Poker sites
Bodog offers a variety of gaming options outside of poker, so many of their poker players are subscribers to other services who are checking out the poker action. For poker, they offer fairly standard option but their advertising campaigns mean that the site is seeing a lot of new traffic, so you can find a game almost any time of the day or night.
Full Tilt Poker is a poker room that’s growing with amazing speed, mostly because of its first time deposit bonus. Full offers a basic selection of poker games, including Texas Hold ‘em and Omaha poker and Seven card stud. You will find that the stars sponsored by the site play often, so this can be a good site for a beginner to check out the action or an advancing player to hone their skills.
Poker Stars is the site for poker tournaments. They offer the standard poker games including Texas Hold ‘em, Omaha and seven card stud, plus some variations of the games. The site also offers a wide range of stakes, from two cents up to a hundred dollars. This range of stakes helps the draw in both the small stakes player and the big bettors.
Carbon Poker is a newer entry into the online poker field. They offered limited game choices when they began – Texas Hold’em and Omaha Hi. But this limit was simply be because they were still developing the software for other games. Now they offer at least ten different games for dedicated poker players.
Gaming club offers the standards – Texas Hold ‘em, Omaha, Five card stud and Seven card stud. The players here tend to be experienced and the games get some tough competition.
Party Poker once dominated the online poker world. But bad press about rigged games and a restriction on US players has dropped this big boy a few notches down in popularity.
Poker room is a site that offers great selections in its game choices. It not only lets players chose from the big five of Texas Hold ‘em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Low, Seven card stud and Seven card Hi/Low but also Chinese Poker as well as a variety of casino games. Unfortunately, they are no longer accepting players from the US.
Titan Poker is no longer accepting players from the US. The site does fall a bit short in game variety offering only Texas Hold ‘em and Omaha games. But even with a small selection, their no limit Hold ‘em games are popular. Regular limits begin at two cents and go up to the thirty/sixty dollar range.
Absolute Poker serves as a cautionary tale in the world of online poker. Investigated and fined for a scandal in 2008, the site faces an uphill struggle to reestablish itself as a legitimate poker site.