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Online Poker Reviews

Online Poker Lowdown offers several online poker room reviews. These have been written in some detail, and you can navigate from review to review by clicking on the links on the left. We've put the reviews in approximate order of the online cardroom size, which means the bigger poker rooms are reviewed first.

We've tried to keep the reviews impartial and fair, but we enjoy playing at some of these poker sites so much that our enthusiasm shines through in our reviews. We didn't want to launch an online cardroom guide which consisted of nothing but sales letters for the online poker sites featured there. (Which is really common, as near as we can tell.)

We're big fans of online poker (obviously), but online poker isn't legal in all jurisdictions. We serve a worldwide poker audience. So it's up to you to determine what's legal or not in your area. We encourage you to follow all laws in your jurisdiction.

Also, a quick opinion on whether or not poker is gambling. Lots of poker players claim that since poker is a game of skill, it's not really gambling. But billiards is a game of skill too, and so is shuffleboard, golf, or darts. But once you place a wager on the outcome of a match, it's gambling.

In other words, the amount of skill involved is not a defining characteristic of gambling. The defining characteristic for gambling is whether or not you're betting or wagering something of value. Skill level is irrelevant.

Online Poker Tournaments

We like online poker tournaments more than ring games online. To us, our buy-in in a tournament provides us with a lot more action than the buy-in for a ring game. You'll also find details of some of the bigger, more famous online poker tournaments on the text link menu on the left.

Some of these online poker tournaments have huge fields, as big or bigger than the field at the World Series of Poker even. And these fields are sometimes that big every single week. Look at the PokerStars Sunday tournament, for example. That's the single biggest weekly poker tournament in the world.

Online poker tournaments make the world of poker an exciting place in this day and age.

Online Poker Strategy

We've also included several online poker strategy articles. These represent several years of experience playing online poker. If you're a beginner to online poker, these poker strategy tips should improve your game. If you're an experienced online poker player, you might find something new or a new way of thinking about something you already know.

Please note that all of our poker strategy advice is useless if you don't think about it, try it, test it, and draw your own conclusions. The best poker strategy of all, online or not, is to think about your play. Thoughtful poker players win money. Careless players lose.