Texas
Hold em Poker is the most popular poker game in the world. We
list and describe a large number of the most reputable and established
poker sites currently on the internet. If you are not
familiar with poker you can view our
poker
dictionary, or pick up a poker book in our
poker books
section.
Tournaments:
Absolute Poker has THE most real money and freeroll tournaments
online. This poker room is a great place for tournament action,
including Single Table, Multi Table and one of the very few online
poker sites to offer Private tournaments to its real money players.
The sit & go no limit Holdem fun tourneys are extremely popular,
along with 40 daily freeroll tournaments.
Absolute Poker also has a Tourney
Leader Board feature. This is based on a point tracking system
designed to rank the top tournament players using place of finish,
number of tournament entries, and buy-in as factors determining
points earned for single and multi table tournaments. This showcases
Absolute's top tournament players on weekly, monthly and yearly
basis. The winner of the Tournament Leader Board each week receives
the opportunity to play in the Mark Seif $1,500 heads up shoot out
freeroll.
Absolute Poker offers players the
chance to attend major poker events world wide. Running daily are
qualifiers for the monthly Satellite events where you can win your
way to the 2005 World Series of Poker and or the WPT - World Poker
Tour.
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• 20% up to $100 in deposit bonus
• Free ticket to the $2 Shark Cage Real Money beginners' tournament
• Up to $10,000 in Play Money
In order to get your deposit bonus, you must first collect enough
player points within 60 days of your deposit by playing. When you
have enough player points, you will automatically get the deposit
bonus transferred to
your PokerRoom account.
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info.
Your first deposit will also award you with a ticket to the Shark
Cage, an invitational tournament accessible for new depositing
players. This tournament enables players to take it easy, get used
to how a tournament works and learn to play without having to deal
with seasoned PokerRoom.com players!
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The
freeroll is a multi-table tournament where you join for free
and have the chance to win bonus cash! Their are three daily
freerolls, played at 00:30 AM ET, 09:30 AM ET and 2:30 PM ET, that
each carry a bonus cash prize pool of $500.
Place among the top 45 to receive bonus cash according to
this schedule.
In order to receive the bonus prize you has to accumulate 4 player
points/$ within 60 days of the event. If you have enough player
points in your account to clear the bonus, the money will
automatically be transferred to your account. The entire bonus prize
is paid out at one time.
PokerRoom.com is a place for
everybody – PC and Mac users alike – and no downloads are required!
They have been around since 1999 and has since then grown into being
one of the world's largest poker sites.
The site and games are developed and maintained by people with
genuine knowledge and interest in poker, so rest assured – online
poker and casino gaming doesn't get any better than this!
They promise that you will find games and content that appeal to you,
be it Texas Hold'em, Black Jack or the possibility to find friends
in the Pokah community. Other popular features are Team
PokerRoom.com and their games developed for mobile phones.
PokerRoom.com is owned by Ongame e-solutions AB. Software is
designed and produced by Ongame.
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Shooter and Pai Gow. Please note that you don't receive any Player
Points playing Craps or Roulette.
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Do you have friends that you think
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receive an extra bonus of $25 just because you referred them!
There is a new edition to the online poker family! Peak
Entertainment™, one of the most prestigious and trusted gaming
companies in the online industry, is proud to offer Caribbean
Sun Poker™ to the virtual gaming world.
Caribbean
Sun Poker uses Cryptologic software, one of the most advanced and
esteemed gaming software companies in the industry. Although the look
and feel of the software similarly compares to other poker rooms,
Caribbean Sun Poker is quick, flawless and hassle free. Here are a few
screen shots of the software:
Let me tell you, this poker room is
addicting! I've played poker with my buddies for several years and
didn't think playing online would have the same appeal as sitting
around a table with trash talking friends. Within an hour of playing Caribbean
Sun Poker I was hooked! For two weeks I was playing every night
for a couple of hours, and this was just the "play for fun"
mode. Once I was used to the pace of the game, I finally decided to
play for real money. After two hands I was up $100 and feeling pretty
good about my poker skills. Unlike playing in person, you have to
concentrate on the betting habits of the other people at the table
instead of relying on the little quirks and nuances of each
individual. You'll see what I mean once you start to play.
At Caribbean
Sun Poker you can choose to play Texas Hold 'Em, 7 Card Stud,
Omaha High and Omaha High/Low. They also have daily tournaments where
you can test your skills against the best from all over the world.
Believe me, it's pretty exciting knowing that you're playing in a
tournament with a guy half way across the world. That's the great
thing about poker - the rules of the game are the same no matter what
language you speak!
Bonus
An extra $20 in FREE chips will automatically be added to your account
after you have participated in your 150th hand (excluding tournament
play), during any calendar month!
Jackpots
The Bad Beat Jackpot will never drop
below the minimum of $2,500.00/£1,500. Every morning at 12:00 AM EST,
the jackpot will increase by $150.00/£100.
As part of the product launch, they
will offer a promotion to all players $500 / £300 that receive a
royal flush during real money play.
Review Summary
Take it from me, out of all the online
poker rooms I've tried, Caribbean
Sun Poker is definitely my favorite. If you're a poker fan like me
but just don't have the time to get together with your buddies every
week, visit www.caribbeansunpoker.com,
you may thank me or you may curse me for getting you hooked on one of
the best online poker sites on the Internet today.
Poker, the
world's favorite card game, has many variations. The
Crazy Poker Room is part of the Prima Poker Network,
meaning you could be playing against Players from many
different casinos. Players are able to enjoy the five
most popular games at the Crazy Vegas Poker
Room.
Texas
Hold'Em
Omaha
Omaha
Hi/Lo
Seven
Card Stud
Five
Card Stud
In addition to
this, players can enter our Tournament
system, which are knock out rounds of your favorite
poker game.
If you're not
familiar with the different versions of Poker, click on
the list above for a brief guide to each of the games
and features. A more detailed guide is available from
within the Poker Room software.
Basic
Rules
All poker games
use a standard 52 card deck, and the cards are ranked:
Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, Ace.
(Aces count as both high and low). Clubs, Diamonds,
Hearts and Spades are all of equal value.
The aim is to
have the best hand out of the cards you are dealt, with
the following winning hands listed in order of rank.
Royal
Flush
The ultimate hand, the Ace, King, Queen, Jack,
and Ten of any one suit.
Straight
Flush
A straight in one suit, i.e. five cards of the
same suit in ascending order.
Four
of a Kind
Four cards of the same value.
Full
House
Three of a kind and a pair, with the three of a
kind counts first.
Flush
Five cards of the same suit.
Straight
Five cards of assorted suits in ascending order.
Three
of a kind
Three cards having the same face value.
Two
Pair
Two sets of pairs.
One
Pair
One pair of cards.
High
Card
Highest card wins the hand in the event of one
of the above hands being present.
