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Online Poker ReviewsWebsites offering online poker reviews have been popping up as quickly as websites offering online poker games. Some of these reviews are useful and some of them are not. On this page we describe our approach to online poker reviews and what information about the various online poker rooms that we provide. Online Poker Reviews for US Players
Online Poker BonusesOur poker reviews include detailed information about the online poker bonuses available at the poker sites. An online poker bonus is an additional amount of chips which is added to your account just for signing up and depositing. This poker signup bonus can be a tremendous amount like $600 on a $600 deposit like Full Tilt Poker makes available, or it can be a more nominal amount like the $50 bonus available from PokerStars. Some savvy players make a good little bit of money collecting online poker signup bonuses, but keep in mind that you have to be a good enough poker player to not lose all your bonus while you earn enough player points to be able to cash out the free money. In other words, if you're a losing player, by the time you've played enough hands to earn your bonus, you'll likely have lost most of the bonus. We'll also be including some specific online poker strategy articles in an attempt to help you not be a losing poker player. Online Poker RatingsWe don't provide numeric online poker ratings or stars or anything like that. In our view, rating systems like this have been so overused by affiliate websites which rate poker rooms solely on how much commission they're being paid by the poker room that those rating systems are now meaningless. (One extremely high traffic poker affiliate site which shall remain nameless but which specializes in listings related to poker is a great example of a site which obviously ranks poker sites based on how much they're being paid. How else could they justify a numeric ranking of 7.4 for PokerStars as compared to a ranking of 8.5 for Titan Poker when PokerStars is the superior cardroom in almost every single aspect that matters?) If you want to know what we think of a poker room, you'll actually have to read our review of the poker site. We don't provide numeric ratings, star rankings, or scores from 1 to 10 or anything like that. Some sites which do provide these kinds of rankings are legitimate, but we just feel like other poker sites have whored out this kind of ranking system in a manner which has made such rankings hard to be taken seriously. Online Poker Games and LimitsWe include information about which online poker games are available at each poker room, and at which limits those games are available. We try to take a look at the player volume for the various games and limits too, but sometimes the player volume varies pretty widely based on events and time of year, and we can only update the site so often, so keep that in mind when reviewing this information. Online Poker Events - Online Poker Tournaments and PromotionsWe try to provide constantly updated details about the online poker events like tournaments and other promotions available at each online cardroom, although again, we write this site ourself and might not always have the time to keep it as up to date as some of those big sites with 70 writers on staff. But a big selling point for a lot of online poker sites, in our opinion, are the online poker tournaments and online poker promotions they offer, so that coverage is important to us. The links to the right mostly lead to online poker reviews. |
USA Poker Sites
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Much
of the focus of the online poker reviews on our site is on the
eligibility of US based poker players. Many online poker sites
don't offer real money poker play to players based in the USA.
All of our reviews include up to date information as to whether
or not the cardrooms accept US players, and they include
information about the ease or difficulty involved in depositing
funds from the US. (Some poker rooms have more and easier
options for USA players than some other poker rooms.)