Current Online Poker Rooms
Below you'll find just about every online poker room you'll want to play at. For many of the online poker rooms listed below we have reviews available (the description will have a link to our review). For information on additional poker bonus offers available through this site see our Online Poker Bonus Codes section.
See the bottom of this page for a key to our Ratings
Unique interface includes graphic avatars of players and big promotions (including their bronze, silver, gold, platinum, supernova and supernova elite players loyalty club levels which increase the number of players points you earn per raked hand and give other perks. Many poker pros and winners of previous WSOP events came from Poker Stars qualifying events and their specialty is tournament play. This is also, by far, the largest current poker room on the internet.
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RPM Poker is one of the Merge Network online poker rooms. Among poker pros RPM is known to have the best rakeback and VIP club bonuses, so if you are going to play a LOT of online poker you should consider the Merge network. The down-side is that certain tools like Table Ninja won't work on RPM poker (yet) but there may be a shift with those online poker tool providers since Black Friday on April 15th, 2011 effectively shut down PokerStars, UB.com and Full Tilt Poker for US residents.
USA Players Ok!
Bovada Poker is Bodog's USA friendly split-off, and offers a unique poker playing interface and a general feeling of coolness while playing there. On top of that if you like to make large deposits they offer a first time deposit bonus of 110% up to $500. We have a review of this site.
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USA Players Ok!
Party Poker, even though it isn't available yet to US players, has one very important thing going for them: They are extremely large and the players there are notoriously loose/weak. The size means lots of new players which means lots of inexperienced players which means.... Well you know what that means.
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America's Card Room purchased Doyle's Room customers in October 2011 and is now the cardroom on the Yatahay network. They offer play to US players even after Black Friday in April 2011. They offer a bad beat jackpot and decent tournament play.
USA Players Ok!
Carbon Poker is on the Merge gaming network and still provides service to US players even after the April 2011 DoJ Indictments of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. The poker client is professonal and clean and there are plenty of players to play against. They also offer one of the only Macintosh poker clients so if you're a Mac user they are definitely worth a visit.
USA Players Ok!
Everest Poker is the only poker room with true multi-language support. They bill themselves as the world's poker room and with good reason. There are a lot of new players playing here which means a lot of money to be made. New players get $100 bonus dollars on their first deposit and can also participate in a $1000 freeroll event for new players only. Even though they do not support USA players they are about twice the size of UB.com, so you should be able to find a good table with little problem.
Our Rating Bar
| Poker Room Rating: Excellent -- Bonus: 100% up to $650 -- Opponent Skill: Medium |
Every poker room above has a rating bar attached to it describing the overall quality of the cardroom, the current bonus and the quality of the player population. If we have a more detailed review of the poker room the Review Available button will also appear.
Poker Room Rating: This is a description of the overall quality of the poker room. We include factors like the quality of the game interface, the quality and stability of the company running the poker room, and the speed that they process deposits and withdrawals.
Bonus: This describes the first time deposit bonus (if any) offered by the poker room. Typically this is a percentage of your deposit up to a certain amount. In all cases the poker rooms do NOT give you actual cash for your bonus. Instead they give you some version of "bonus dollars" which are converted to real money as you actually play real-money poker. The speed that the bonus dollars are converted to real money depends on several factors including the individual cardroom, the limit you are playing (bonuses clear faster at $3-$6 than $0.25-$0.50) and the size of the bonus (the larger bonuses typically clear slower than the smaller ones).
Opponent Skill: This is the overall quality of your opponents at the cardroom. In this case LESS is MORE! In other words you want to play against players with lower Opponent Skills if possible. A value of LOW in this rating is a great place to play poker against inexperienced players.
