So you want to play poker online?
Find out where and how to play without losing your shirt!
(though at least
online no-one would see :-).
Online Poker is now big, I mean very big! In
fact, according to
Pokerpulse
which prides itself on tracking online poker, an estimated 1.1
million people actually have active Poker accounts at the five
largest web-based poker networks and of course there are also
loads of much smaller ones, so you can probably double that
figure.
Now here's the astonishing figure. Online Poker players bet
more than $38 billion as far back as 2004 or to put it another
way $104 million per day. Wow!
Now here are some of the biggest Online Poker sites on the
web and because they're big, they're probably the most
trustworthy*.
PokerPulse Rank |
Poker Network /
PokerRoom |
Worth a visit? |
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#1 |
PartyPoker.com |
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#2 |
PokerStars |
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#3 |
Paradise |
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#4 |
Full Tilt Poker |
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#5 |
PokerRoom.com
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#6 |
Pacific Poker |
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#7 |
UltimateBet |
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#8 |
CryptoLogic |
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#9 |
Prima Network
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#10 |
The Tribeca Poker Network
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#11
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Bodogpoker.com |
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#12 |
ipoker |
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What else is there to know about playing poker online? |
- During any 24 hour period there's a peak of around
150,000 players online playing poker and that number is
growing every year.
- Further research by a group called River City has shown
that a calculated 200-plus poker websites in the world now
generate more than $2bn a year!
- The group believes that 1.5 million people play poker
online regularly for real money and that the number is
growing by 100,000 a month, whilst PokerPulse reckons it to
have been 1.8m during 2005.
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Party Poker accounts for more than half
the worldwide poker market. It claims that 65,000 people,
mostly Americans, play simultaneously on its site at peak
hours. (Source: Survey shows 4 million Britons use the web
for betting. Nils Pratley. January 28, 2005.)
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* The sites that are listed on this page are all big players
in the online poker world, but no warrantee or guarantees are
offered by us, merely a heads-up as to who the biggest players
are (ranked by volume of business).  |
