Online Poker - why thousands choose to play this way

So then, what's so good about playing ONLINE poker?

Get yourself dealt two good hole cards and you can scream your head off - those other players just cannot hear you!

Join a game at a time that suits YOU, be it 6am or 11.30pm, there will always be space for you. At the same time, enjoy being in the comfort of your own home and have no traveling or stopovers to arrange. Wish to learn the rules and begin your great adventure? - click here....

Down at Smokey Joe's Casino the old cardsharps can judge your hand by reading your mannerisms, or your tells. Well how on earth can they do this on the internet? More on tells here...

And another thing, you may be playing against a lot of experienced players at Joe's, but online there are many newbies who will be looking to try their hand after watching those games on TV. Who do you prefer to compete with - the old hands or the newcomers? Our 'bumper' page of winning tips are here....

Take advantage of some of the free poker offers from the online casinos. It is quite easy to find poker rooms which will match your $100 kitty with $100 of free chips. What a great way to get started!

Short list of approved online poker sites from here....

This could be your course of action:

• Master the rules by playing at our free 'Practise Poker Table'.
• Make sure you are 'up to speed' by following some poker games on the TV.
• Sign up with one casino from our recommended 'Best Poker Rooms'.
• Enter a 'Free-roll' competition after studying our 'Tips and Strategies'.
• Enter a low cost 'Sit and Go' tournament using our suggested strategies.
• Before you finally 'graduate', read some of the 'Poker Strategy Books' that we have found for you.

Want to read this New York Times article by Garry Rivlin on the Havard professor who sees 'Poker as a Learning Tool' (Dec. 2007)?