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What is the best online poker site on the Internet?

Whether you are new to online poker or you are looking for a new online poker room to try, you will find what you need right here. With so many online poker rooms to choose from, how do you know which one is right for you? You could start by downloading each of the rooms and playing the free tables to get a feel for the site before you decide which ones to settle on. Hopefully the guide below will make the choice easier. We have reviewed many of the online poker sites and have come up with the Buddy's list of the best poker sites on the Internet. To get an idea which online poker room is best for you, download each of the sites listed below then test drive them on the free tables before choosing one or two.


Full Tilt Poker [Visit] Full Tilt Poker Table

What if some of the top poker pros got together and opened an online poker room? What if these pros were the famous ones like, Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, John Juanda, Jennifer Harman, Phil Gordon, Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, Clonie Gowen, Andy Bloch, Mike Matusow, Gus Hansen, and Allen Cunningham just to name a few. What if you could pull up a seat at a table with one of these pros? And what if all that had nothing to do with why you should try playing at this poker room? Then you'd have Full Tilt Poker. (Don't worry, if you don't have any desire to lose your bankroll to these pros, their tables are clearly marked.)

If you played at Full Tilt in the early days you may have been turned off by the first person viewpoint and the cheesy animated avatars. Today Full Tilt offers both the first person view and the more common overhead view, your choice. By the way, if you like those cheesy avatars and the first person viewpoint, it is called the "classic" table layout.

Here at the Buddy we were skeptical in the early days of Full Tilt. The general concern was that the Tilt would try to use its celebrity owners as a way to get customers and would let the quality of the room take a back seat. It did not happen. Full Tilt Poker is a very high quality online poker room, and it would stand on its own without the celebrity owners. In fact, the Buddy's choice to select Full Tilt for this list had nothing to do with the pro owners, and everything to do with the high quality of the room.

Absolute Poker [Visit] Absolute Poker Table

Online poker is not a new thing anymore. For many years there have been sites where you could play real poker for real money, but in the early 2000's, with all the tournament coverage on TV and the tremendous increase in poker popularity, many new sites started popping up in an attempt to take advantage of the poker craze. One of those was Absolute Poker, which quickly became the "rising star" of online poker with over 12,000 players online at peak hours in its first year. With plenty of action, superb table layout, great customer support, fast cashouts, and the best promotional offerings (including reload bonuses) Absolute is one of the best online poker rooms around.

Absolute features a full menu of games and limits including 6 player max tables, great micro limit games and no limit games. From $25/$50 all the way down to .02/.04 games, Absolute Poker has the action you're looking for. Many of these cash game tables feature a bad beat jackpot which routinely gets into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. 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 n go no limit Holdem fun tourneys are extremely popular, along with 40 daily freeroll tournaments. This is Buddy's favorite poker room on the Internet.

Bodog Poker [Visit] BoDog Poker Table

Bodog founder Calvin Ayre is one smart dude. Several years ago he had one of the best online sportsbooks around. But that wasn't good enough, so he expanded it into Bodog Entertainment which is one of the world's fastest growing media and digital entertainment giants, featuring: online gaming; an international record label, Bodog Music; a million-dollar band search competition, Bodog Battle of the Bands; a publishing division (Bodog Nation, Bodog Beat); and an international television production division (BodogTV), which has produced reality television series, such as BodogFight, Calvin Ayre Wild Card Poker and Bodog Salutes the Troop. He was featured on the cover of Forbes magazine's best-selling "Billionaires" issue. In December 2004, Bodog.com was named the 2004 US Market Hot Shot by eGaming Review. Oh yes, Bodog is no rookie in the digital entertainment business, it was founded in way back in 1994!

So why all the hype about Bodog Entertainment and the founder? This is just to give you an idea that Bodog Poker is a backed by the reputation of one of digital entertainment's big shots. So what? What about the poker room itself? Here a the Buddy, we feel Bodog Poker is one of the best poker rooms online and deserves its rightful place on this list. The lobby and table layout is slick. The ring game and tournament action is good, and you should find plenty of fish to fry!

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On poker: A change to the World Series of Poker main event (Houston Chronicle)
Tue, 13 May 2008 17:47:55 GMT
The World Series of Poker, poker’s most prestigious event, will kick off in a few short weeks. The WSOP features world championships in various forms of the game, all leading up to the granddaddy of them all, the $10,000 buy-in Main Event.

Speedway Children’s Charities Atlanta Chapter To Host Inaugural Kruz’n for Kids Motorcycle Poker Run (The Auto Channel)
Tue, 13 May 2008 17:02:40 GMT
HAMPTON, Ga. (May 13, 2008) – The Atlanta Chapter of Speedway Children’s Charities will host the Inaugural “Kruz’n for Kids Motorcycle Poker Run” on Saturday, June 7. The event includes a scenic ride through Clayton and Henry Counties, with stops at local Wal-Mart stores and Noah’s Ark located in Locust Grove.

The World Poker Store, Inc. Announces New Board Member and Management Promotion (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Tue, 13 May 2008 14:00:00 GMT
The World Poker Store, Inc., an international entertainment company, announces changes to its board of directors and management team.

Poker 'a real job' for Ansonia native (Connecticut Post)
Tue, 13 May 2008 00:04:39 GMT
ANSONIA — Joe DiMartino is all about the hearts, clubs, spades and diamonds. The city native is a professional poker player, engrossed by the card game made famous by movies and widely

RODEO: Mesquite man goes for ride in cowboy poker (McKinney Messenger)
Tue, 13 May 2008 05:36:24 GMT
Mexican fighting bull Black Plague lives up to his name and reputation, catching up with card player Jason Singer, of Mesquite, in the Mesquite Championship Rodeo’s cowboy poker game.

Winning big in poker (TheCelebrityCafe.com)
Mon, 12 May 2008 15:59:41 GMT
It started like any Poker session: unpredictably. I had to sit through a couple of hands until the dealer handed me a pair of lucky 7s. But when someone dropped 200 chips on the ante, I had to determine if they were bluffing or had a higher pair.

Oshawa man wins million-dollar poker prize (CTV.ca)
Mon, 12 May 2008 13:13:27 GMT
An Ontario man who captured the million-dollar first prize at a poker tournament in Barcelona on the weekend says his only goal was to win enough cash to put his granddaughter through university.

Billy Bowlegs Boat Poker Run is May 17 (Walton Sun News)
Mon, 12 May 2008 18:42:36 GMT
FORT WALTON BEACH – The ABWA Billy Bowlegs Boat Poker Run is scheduled for May 17. The event is sponsored by the ladies of the Emerald Coast Chapter of the American Business Women’s Association and is their annual scholarship fundraiser.

AOL's Games.com to Award Six Free Seats to the 2008 World Series of Poker(R) Championship in Las Vegas (Centre Daily Times)
Mon, 12 May 2008 14:30:12 GMT
AOL today announced that Games.com, http://games.com, will award six seats to this summer's World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas. Beginning May 4 and running through June 15, players can compete in free, online No-Limit Texas Hold'em tournaments on Games.com's World Series of Poker hub, http://games.com/poker. The six top qualified players will each win a seat to the World ...

Déjà Vu as UltimateBet Legend Pops Second Bad Beat Jackpot at Online Poker Site (PRWeb)
Mon, 12 May 2008 18:59:23 GMT
Online poker player from Alaska gets lucky twice at UltimateBet's Bad Beat Jackpot tables (PRWeb May 12, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb937024.htm

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