Poker Card Room Reviews
Full Tilt Poker
Since its launch in 2004, Full Tilt Poker has become one of the foremost market leaders in online poker gaming. This US player friendly site, currently ranks as the second largest online poker room (surpassed only by Poker Stars), with a huge player base that continues to grow daily.
Promising players the opportunity to “Learn, Chat and Play with the Pros,” the site is backed by endorsements from heavy weight poker pros including Chris Ferguson, Allen Cunningham, Howard Lederer, Jennifer Harman, Phil Ivey and Andy Bloch. Members of the superstar “Full Tilt Team” and other easily identifiable “red” pros can be found regularly playing and chatting with players of all levels on the site. Read More >>
Poker Stars
Launched in 2001, PokerStars is now the largest online poker room in the world, and you’ll be hard pressed to find a more authentic poker experience anywhere else. At any given time, you’ll find thousands of players of all levels, playing almost any game on the site. US players continue to be welcome at PokerStars, no doubt a major contributing factor to the sites popularity and growth.
PokerStars sets the industry bar for tournament play with huge action 24/7, unrivaled game selection, the world’s largest guarantees, and top of the line software and support. Each year the site produces thousands of online qualifiers for the WSOP/WPT tournaments – more than all other poker sites combined! PokerStars also runs the biggest online poker series in the world the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), and the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). There is no doubt that when it comes to tournament poker PokerStars is THE place to play.
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Bodog Poker
Established in 1994, Bodog is one of the oldest and well respected online gaming giants in the industry. With a unique and diverse business portfolio that includes its online sports book and casino, poker room, an international record label, a publishing house and a television production company, Bodog has quickly established a reputation as a bit of a rebel with a tendency to do things their own way.
Bodog Poker opened for business in 2004 and grew very quickly with the help of some great promotional offerings and a heavy duty advertising budget. The poker room gained massive public exposure after the 2006 World Series of Poker, where Bodog player Jamie Gold emerged as the $12 million dollar winner. Currently, Team Bodog features seasoned pro players such as Jean-Robert Bellande, David Williams, Evelyn Ng and Justin Bonomo. Read More >>
Ultimate Bet Poker
One of top online poker sites, Ultimate Bet completed its merger with Absolute Poker in late 2008 to form the new Cereus Poker Network. The reveal introduced players to a new slick site with bolder graphics, interesting features, larger tournament and game selection, improved security and a significantly expanded player base. Ultimate Bet is also another US player friendly site.
Tournament play at Ultimate Bet is excellent and perhaps what it’s best known for. Players have access to a great selection of well run, seamless play tournament games– including anything from regular Sit-and-Go’s and Multi-Table Tournaments, to freeroll tournaments, where players can win real cash without any investment, and WSOP/WPT qualifiers. Read More >>
Absolute Poker
Absolute Poker merged with Ultimate Bet in late 2008 to form the new Cereus Network, making it one of the largest poker rooms in the world. Post merger players were introduced to better and faster software, improved site security, and a significantly expanded player base. Players can also easily transfer funds between their Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet player accounts, to play at either poker room.
Amazingly, the site has survived one of the biggest cheating scandals in the poker gaming industry. Involving a major breach in security, greedy insider employees, fake “superuser” accounts and players being cheated out of large sums of money, the poker room was condemned by the poker community for its failure to protect its players.
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Party Poker
Their witty commercials and huge televised tournaments quickly made Party Poker a household name and the largest online poker room in the world. However, after deciding to stop accepting US players, Party Poker saw more than half their player base disappear. Even so, Party Poker has managed to beat out many sites that continue to be US friendly to remain as one of the biggest poker rooms and well recognized names in the industry. Players will still find plenty of traffic, excellent tournaments, great game selection, and some of the softest competition around. Read More >>
Bwin Poker
One of the granddaddy’s of online poker, Bwin was established back in 1999 and acquired the Ongame Poker Network in 2005 to become one of the largest poker networks in the world. Bwin Poker has everything one would expect from the biggest poker room on the network – a killer website, fantastic graphics, excellent software, great game selection and plenty of player traffic. Read More >>
Hollywood Poker
One of the most popular poker rooms in the Ongame Network, Hollywood Poker has made a name for itself as the place where “celebrities come to play.” Endorsed by famous stars like James Woods and “King of the Hollywood Home Games” Vince Van Patten, the Hollywood makes it easy to tabs on the many different celebrities playing on the site through its Celebrity Sightings page. The site has slowed a little since they stopped accepting US players, but their player traffic is still among the highest in the world. Read More >>
Titan Poker
Titan Poker is the leading poker room in the iPoker network, one of the largest poker networks in Europe. Having seen their player traffic drop significantly after changes in US policies forced them to ban US customers, Titan has successfully rebuilt its player base with some great bonuses and promotions, huge cash tournaments, and a multi-lingual interface that supports over a dozen languages. Read More >>
Cake Poker
In 2004, a “small team of passionate poker players set out on a mission to design a better poker site.” Just two years later they unveiled their finished product, Cake Poker, to the gaming world. The traffic at Cake Poker is on the slower side, but with a gorgeous website, excellent software, loose competition, and an open policy towards US players, this ambitious young poker room has the potential to quickly become a major industry player.Read More >>
Sportsbook Poker
IEstablished in 1996, Sportsbook.com is a well established sportsbook, racebook and online casino operator. In 2006, Sportsbook Poker was launched and is now one of the fastest growing poker sites online. The poker room is part of the Cake Poker network, and is rather unusual in that it caters purely to US and Canadian players. Read More >>
Carbon Poker
Carbon Poker is a relatively young poker site belonging to the Merge Gaming Network, one of the few remaining poker networks that still openly accept US players. It is no surprise that Carbon is the most popular site on the network, offering its players great software, loose games, super quick withdrawals and some truly massive promotional offerings. Read More >>
William Hill Poker
Founded in 1934, William Hill is one of the oldest and well known bookmakers in the UK, with over 1,600 high street betting shops. With a name synonymous with reputable betting, it’s no surprise that William Hill Poker, the brands venture into online poker, has been met with phenomenal success. By teaming up with iPoker in 2009, one of the largest and busiest poker networks in the world, William Hill players are almost guaranteed to find good action at the tables 24/7..Read More >>
Everest Poker
A poker room with a truly global vision, Everest Poker attracts players from across the world including Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and more. Catering to its international clientele Everest Poker is available in 16 languages. In 2008, Everest replaced Party Poker as the primary endorser for the World Series of Poker (WSOP), firmly establishing itself amongst the top online poker rooms in the industry today.
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