So you want to play Texas Holdem? You saw the game on Television or you saw your buddies play and you decided to give it a shot. Now you are hooked. You watch all the shows, play in home games twice a week, and even at the local free pub game on Wednesdays. Now you want to find a place online to play. If you want to find a Texas Holdem poker room, then start with the following rooms.
Full Tilt Poker is one of the largest poker sites in the world. Full Tilt is a Holdem player’s wet dream. This site has Holdem in all three variants. You can play for pennies on up to the highest limits in the world. Full Tilt also offers the innovation of Rush Poker. If you haven’t hear of Rush Poker, the best way to describe it is poker for the ADHD. You select a game you want to play and you are sat at a table with eight other players. You are dealt a hand, if you choose to fold the hand, you are immediately moved to another table and dealt another hand. Furthermore, if you are dealt a hand, you can click on the quick fold button and you are moved right away. No need to wait for action to get to you. As a result, players can play as many as 250+ hands per hour. Rush Poker is just one of the many Holdem options on the site. To find out what all they offer, check them out for yourself.
If you mention Full Tilt, then you have to mention PokerStars as well. PokerStars is the other online poker megasite online. They offer all of the typical Holdem variants and even a mixed Holdem variant. In mixed Holdem, you switch between limit and no-limit Holdem. It tests both skill sets equally. Limits on PokerStars range from micro stakes, where you can play for pennies, all the way to high stakes games. PokerStars doesn’t offer the ultra high nosebleed limits that Full Tilt does, but unless you are a top pro or a top online player, you don’t have to worry about that.
If you are a player outside of the United States looking for a Texas Holdem poker room, then you want to check out Bwin.com. Bwin offers one of the sleekest user interfaces in the industry. The graphics give you the true fell of playing at a live poker table without all of the anxiety of facing real competition. Bwin offers all the typical Holdem variants and stakes range from micro stakes all the way to $50 – $100 NL. Bwin also offers a lot of great NL tournaments as well. Their promotions are also top notch. You can satellite your way into major live poker events such as the World Series of Poker and the Irish Open. While Bwin does not allow US players on their site, you can still find plenty of action as Bwin is part of the Ongame Network, which is the fifth largest in the world.
A site that was setup as a Holdem shop and has been promoted heavily by top Holdem pros is UB, formerly known as Ultimate Bet. UB is most famous for sponsoring top pros Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke. Hellmuth is the all-time leader in WSOP bracelets with 11, and all 11 are in Holdem. Duke is most famous for her Tournament of Champions victory at the World Series of Poker in 2005, but she most recently took down the NBC National Heads-Up Championship. UB has every version of Holdem and the stakes range from micro stakes to middle stakes. Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke regularly play on the site. The site also hold both sit and go and multi-table tournaments, including qualifiers into events such as the World Series of Poker and the UB Online Championships.
Doyle’s Room is another popular poker site. If you haven’t already guessed it, the site is the home of 10 time bracelet winner and two-time Main Event champion Doyle Brunson. Brunson heavily promotes the site and plays on there regularly. The site offers a wide spread of Holdem games from micro to mid limits. They also offer tournaments in both sit and go and multi-table format. One unique style of tournament on the site is the Kamikaze sit and go. In this game, all players are put all-in and the player that catches the best hand wins. Then they are moved to the final table and everyone is again put all-in. The player that wins the hand is the winner. The next best hand gets 2nd and the next best hand gets third. Obviously, this is a total crap shoot, but the players seem to like it. Better odds than slots.
As you can see, there are a lot of options for you to play Texas Holdem online. In all honesty, every online poker site in existence spreads Holdem as their primary game. You can go online and find a couple dozen different sites besides the ones above. However, the ones above have proven track records and a solid following. Don’t let the list above be your only source of information in your search, but it should be a good starting point.
