Online Poker

Online poker, along with televised poker, really propelled the game into its huge growth phase. Online poker sites are generally connected with one or more online poker payment services which can be used to fund player accounts with money with which to play poker.

Most online poker sites are members of poker networks. Although each site has their own poker room and often their own bonuses and promotions, all of the poker rooms are part of the same network. When a player logs into one poker room, he or she is actually playing with people who have logged in from any poker rooms on the network. This network sharing increases the number of active players on each poker room, giving the player more game selection at any time of the day.

Top ten most active
This list is based on the maximum number of players during July 2001. The network's main site is listed. Stats are provided by Pokerscout.


 * 1) Poker Stars - 10,500
 * 2) IDN Poker - 4,000
 * 3) 888 Poker - 3,482
 * 4) Party Poker - 3,118
 * 5) Ignition Poker, Bovada Poker, Bodog, and others (Pai Wang Luo Network) - 3,000
 * 6) America's Cardroom, Black Chip, and others (Winning Poker Network - 1,986
 * 7) Winamax.fr - 1,799
 * 8) GGNetwork - 1,405
 * 9) William Hill, Coral, Betfair (iPoker Network) - 1,400
 * 10) TigerGaming, BetOnline, Sportsbetting (Chico Poker Network) - 1,257

The rest

 * Action Poker
 * Bodog Poker
 * Bugsys Club
 * Carbon Poker
 * Coin Poker
 * Everest Poker
 * Every Game Poker - part of Horizon Poker Network
 * GamesGrid Poker
 * Iron Duke
 * Juicy Stakes Poker
 * Pacific Poker
 * Party Poker
 * Pitbull Poker
 * Planet Poker
 * Poker.com
 * Poker Nordica
 * Tony G Poker

Review summaries
A table comparing the top online sites for size, games offered, limits offered, and tournaments.

Discussion threads

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