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Instead of our normal gossip/news articles we thought we would give our readers a list 100 poker sites you should definatly check out. We didnt want to name this a top 100 list, because quite frankly, there are a ton of poker websites, and blogs out there that totally kick ass and we wouldn’t want to leave them out.  This list does not rank the sites in any order. Our list was created based on a few specific things we were looking for. The first being a substantial amount of content available, be it news, tournament information, strategy or theory. Secondly, we looked for sites that offer something unique to the reader or in the case of poker blogs, provided some really interesting stories.  Although we have 100 sites listed here, we know that not everything will appeal to everyone which is why we have left a brief description beside each one, letting you know what they have to offer.

1. PokerSift - This site features blog posts from a dozen different bloggers, each bringing their own experience to the game and views.

2. 2 + 2 Poker Forums - One of the leading poker forms online.

3. Kick Ass Poker - Provides online reviews, poker news, online poker league as well as a live poker club based out of Atlanta.

4. Poker King - This site provides excellent coverage of industry news for online and live tournaments.

5. Poker Listings - Another poker site which excels with information for tournaments and industry news.

6. Play Winning Poker - One of the largest and oldest poker strategy sites available, written by Steve Badger.

7. Nat Arem - Blogs about personal experiences as well as poker.

8. Poker Tomorrow - Offers some unique poker articles and a few from guest writers such as Tony Guerrera and Bernard Lee.

9. PokerForum.ca - One of the largest Canadian poker forums.

10. PokerStarsblog.com - Up to date coverage of live and online games.

11. Always Bluff - This blog is well written and often provides captivating and often humorous articles by player Beanie who blogs about his life and his game.

12. Bill Rini - Rini blogs about nearly anything that interests him in poker with humor. Definatly a good read.

13. Melted Felt - If you want up to date news with a twist, Melted Felt is definatly a site worth checking out. Full of humor and wit.

14. Wicked Chops Poker - Wicked Chops features poker news in a more canny and witty style than your traditional poker blog.

15. Sit and Go Planet - This site is dedicated to the sit and go player, and provides multiple articles on SNG as well as reviews on each of the major poker site’s sit and gos.

16. Compatible Poker - This site is one of the largest poker sites dedicated to Mac poker players, provides information for US players and a daily news section.

17. CardPlayer - This site provides extensive database of player rankings, up to date news and publishes a monthly magazine.

18. Poker News - Offers extensive coverage for poker tournaments, features an online forum and daily news.

19. Poker Babes - Written by Shirley Rosario, this site offers poker strategy written by a professional player and unique bios from her own life experiences playing with some of the biggest names in poker.

20. High Stakes Report - Unique site which tracks the highest staked games in online poker.

21. ThePokerBank - Offers an extensive collection of strategy articles categorized by skill level.

22. Beat The Fish - Another site which provides a variety of poker tips as well as information for US players.

23. Heads Up Poker - Written specifically for the heads up player, this site offers basic, intermediate, and advanced strategy articles.

24. Niche Poker - Niche Poker features strategy articles for Omaha, Draw Poker, Seven Card Stud, and Holdem.

25. Bluff Magazine - Offers extensive database of player rankings, publishes a montly magazine, poker news and tournament coverage.

26. The Hendon Mob - Features articles relating to strategy and theory written by several pro players, and includes an extensive database of player rankings and tournament wins reproduced from CardPlayer.

27. Part Time Poker - Offers poker coaching, strategy articles, news and an online forum.

28. Noted Poker Authority - Written by Ed Miller, this blog provides articles relating to advanced theory and principles.

29. Internet Texas Holdem -One of the largest poker forums with over 53,000 members and 500,000 posts. Includes strategy articles and free poker book promos.

30. Plan3t Poker - Written by Mark, who also writes for Melted Felt, this blog depicts his online games with an emphasis placed on Omaha.

31. Launch Poker - This is another site which provides daily coverage of online tournaments, poker news and offers a poker forum

32. Steves Bets - Written by Steven Jacobs, a pro player who chronicles his games live and online.

33. Internet-Poker.co.uk - Features Omaha and Stud strategy as well as daily news and information for US players.

34. Allinstevie’s Blog - Written by professional online player Stephen Devlin.

35. CardsChat.com - One of the oldest and largest poker forums online.

36. Tight Poker - Offers poker tips for online players and one of the better collection of poker book reviews on the internet.

37. Poker News Daily - Publishes daily news for online poker, legislation and stocks.

38. Poker Pages - Offers reviews, strategy, videos, forum and tournament information.

39. Pocket Fives - Active and strong forum for online players.

40. Card Runners - One of the leading poker training resource sites online.

41. Deuces Cracked -Provides instructional videos, online coaching and articles for poker training.

42. Stox Poker -Another one of the net’s leading poker training sites and features videos, personal coaching and blogging by StoxPoker members.

43. Felt Poker Forums - Although this site is not as big as some of the others, they do provide a tight community of online players who are serious about the game.

44. Bankroll Boost Poker Blog - A different take at blogging for poker news. This site posts poker gossip which often has a humours spin.

45. Full Contact Poker Blog - If your a Daniel Negreanu fan you will enjoy this site which offers frequent articles written by Negreanu along with as his video diary.

46. Pokerarti - One of the leading poker blogs, posts provide recaps of online games and industry events.

47. Promote Poker - Promote Poker is a combination between a site built for poker players or those who want to learn how to be a poker affiliate. Some great articles in both categories.

48. Full Tilt Poker Blog - This blog of course chronicals the success of the pros on Team Full Tilt, live and online.

49. Rizen Poker - Written by professional player Eric Lynch, aka Rizen.

50. PokerStrategy.org - Provides a strategy guide for beginners.

51. Doyle Brunson’s Poker Blog - Doyle’s poker blog provides some posts relating to playing poker, but also recants alot of his life and history. An incredible read.

52. PokerMaster.org - Offers reviews, strategy, and a tournament schedule for top rooms available via an RSS feed.

53. Pokertips.org - Provides multiple articles on poker strategy and active forum

54. Poker Scout - This site provides players with current traffic statistics to each of the networks and poker rooms.

55. Poker.com - Since they moved to a poker portal, this site now offers a large number of articles around reviews, poker news, strategy and a complete poker games section with rules to multiple variations.

56. Poker Junkie - Active poker forum in addition to providing tournament news, industry news and strategy articles.

57. Top Stud Poker - Site dedicated to playing Seven Card Stud.

58. Poker Road -Features a well known poker radio show and takes reporting poker news to the next level.

59. PokerForums.org - Offers a poker forum, and tournament coverage.

60. Bonus Whores - Bonus Whores is a unique site in that they provide players with extensive information on how to clear the poker bonuses the rooms offer. We haven’t found any other site to go into this much detail.

61. Low Limit Holdem - Website is written for the low limit player and includes strategy articles.

62. Beat 6 Max - Poker site specifically for players who play shorthanded or would like to learn.

63. Paget - A unique page which provides a complete guide to online poker, from links to other portals to the poker rooms. Also includes a section for different variants to the game.

64. Las Vegas Las Vegas Poker Blog – Covers tournaments and poker events in and around Vegas. Also offers Vegas card room reviews.

65. Poker SEO - Poker SEO provides information on various affiliate websites in addition to articles relating to poker SEO.

66. Freerolls Monitor - Tracks freerolls across all networks and provides an easy to use monitor.

67. Directory of Online Poker - Offers a very unique sit and go guide which compares each of the sit and go’s across multiple sites.

68. Stud Strategy - Site offers information about 7 Card Stud.

69. Mac Poker Online -  Site dedicated to Mac poker players.

70. Never Win Poker - Site is managed by Micon and is one of the few forums which is 100% uncensored and anything goes with these guys.

71. Home Poker - This site is basically a site for poker supplies from tables, to chip sets. Also offers a tournament planner, a how to guide for hosting your own games and house rules.

72. Flop Turn River - Poker site offers online forum, daily news, extensive and detailed reviews as well as multiple tools for online players.

73. Bickmat’s Razz Blog - This blog focuses on the game of Razz at the lower limits.

74. PokerAffiliateListings.com - One of the leading resources for poker affiliates. Includes forum and blog.

75. PokerAffiliatePrograms.com - Another poker affiliate forum which provides information on SEO, and a daily blog for industry news.

76. New Poker Affiliate - This site features multiple articles for poker affiliates who want to learn how to drive traffic to their websites. Well written!

77. Poker Player Profiles - This site provides multiple profiles of some of poker’s biggest names.

78. Internet Poker Rankings - Tracks player rankings and stats

79. Poker Blog - Multiple bloggers writing about industry news, events in Vegas and tournaments.

80. Learn Texas Holdem - Provides an impressive collection of poker strategy articles for beginners, also provides a Q & A section.

81. TopPoker.org - TopPoker.org provides a holdem strategy guide, player profiles and information about playing different variants and a heads up holdem hand simulator.

82. Tournament Monitor -  Tournament Monitor is the sister site to Freerolls Monitor and provides information on upcoming events across multiple sites using a feed.

83. Poker Works - Poker Works offers player interviews, tournament coverage and a great section on player profiles and where they are now.

84. K9 Poker - K9Poker is a social site allowing players to join and post information for upcoming events they may be hosting in their town. Categorized by state and very easy to use.

85. The Poker Atlas - Similar to the last site listed, except this site goes one step further and allows users to search for local games by country as well as province/state. Includes a map of local casinos.

86. Poker Vibe - Offers strategy articles for holdem, omaha and touches a bit on theory.

87. Bonus Internet Poker - One of the few sites around which has a section dedicated to Razz players, and provides the overall basics of the game and touches on a bit of strategy.

88. High Stakes DB - Covers the ultra high stake games online, includes player interviews and an online forum.

89. All Vegas Poker - Multiple authors who write about the Vegas scene, their games and reviews of Vegas card rooms.

90. Leggo Poker - Leggo Poker is a leading poker training resource site which offers training videos, poker coaching, a forum and reviews from other players.

91. Beat No Limit - Offers articles for low limit players focusing on beating the NL games.

92. Tao of Poker - Blogs about poker both on and off the felt giving it his own unique twist.

93. RSS Poker - This site is unique in that it provides articles written by numorous sites giving different viewpoints and is available via an RSS feed.

94. Mike’s Poker Pages - This site offers over 100 different variations to the game of poker, with easy to read instructions on how to play. Great site for players looking for new games.

95. EatMyStack.co.uk - One of the largest UK poker forums. Features poker articles, up to date coverage of online games, and their own EMS poker league.

96. Poker Room Review - Unlike most poker reviews which are written by the webmaster, this site allows players to submit reviews and rate the card rooms.

97. Unknown Poker - Provides a Vegas cardroom directory, news and an above average list of player profiles

98. Guide To Poker - Extensive list of poker articles, coverage for most major events and daily poker news.

99. My Holdem Tips - Neat site which provides a few dozen strategy articles but allows users to upload poker videos and rate them.

100. Low Limit Grinder - Written by andr3w321 who blogs about his games and progressing to the next level.  Some great posts in this one.

Poker is bad, especially if you’re playing on a poker machine in Allegheny County. According to the Allegheny County Police, they’ve seized 36 electronic poker machines from three businesses. The raid took place earlier this afternoon and police said they also seized several thousand dollars cash in the effort.

These electronic games allegedly allow players to actually play pokers using coins and a computer screens. That’s what the unsealed indictment against these business state anyways, we thought you could only play on the Internets…

As part of the investigation, they sent an undercover agent to play the games and see if he could get paid his winnings in cash. Apparently he was able to get payment so the gambling charges are now certain to stick in court. The operators of the businesses in question had no comment in the matter.

One challenge the courts may have however is that the original undercover office that conducted the investigation just announced that he’s going to now play online poker at Full Tilt full time now. According to the officer, “It’s more profitable than being a cop”.

Like most poker players, I took the opportunity last night to sweat the election results from the rail last night. Of particular interest (other than the obvious) to me in this election were the races involving “friends” of online poker such as Barney Frank and Ron Paul. It was a good night for Democrats but some Republicans won key spots as well with a few of them being pro-online poker types.

While we’re not sure where Obama stands on the subject, Barney Frank has been vocal about his efforts and support of online poker. He was instrumental in pushing HR 6870, the Payments Systems Protection Act through the House Financial Services Committee. The bill clarified language in the UIGEA regarding payment processors like Neteller and was a small victory for online poker players.

Other wins of interest involved Congressman Pete Sessions, who’s a Republican, believe it or not. Hailing from Texas, a big gambling state, Sessions introduced HR 6663, which tried to carve out an exemption for poker in the UIGEA. Ron Paul was also a big winner, mainly because he was unopposed in his bid for re-election but regardless; he’s a great friend to the online poker community and will hopefully continue to push forward on our behalf.

Overall, it’s clear that these politicians have bigger hurdles to clear before they’re able to tackle the online gambling bits. Here’s to keeping our collective fingers crossed that once they figure out to stimulate the economy and end the war, that we see a win on our behalf soon as well.

It’s been quite the week for Phil Hellmuth. After admitting to suffering a Phil Hellmuth meltdown/panic attack, he’s now blogging about his apparent affinity for Michael Phelps. To hear Phil gush about chasing down the boy wonder will make most grown men somewhat uncomfortable. A few of Phil’s observations in his blog:

“Phelps is a poker fan, which is cool because everyone in the world is a Phelps fan!” (Even me, Phil Hellmuth!)

“Just like when he walks into restaurants these days, a standing ovation from the patrons every time, and why we wouldn’t he get one?” (I mean, he’s a 14 time Gold Medal winner. I’m an 11 time gold bracelet winner! Marry me, Michael!)

“Later we hit “Prive” for some dancing and drinks.” (Sounds like a special moment, Phil!)

“I found Phelps to be humble, respectful, fun to hang out with, and someone that is enjoying the spotlight like a kid in a candy store. For myself, I strive to be like a kid in a candy store with the fame and fortune stuff as well…” (Yeah, right. A kid in the candy store, holding Phelp’s hand.)

These are all Phil’s words, my friends. So it’s pretty clear that he’s having a tough time holding back his affection for the 14 time Olympic Gold Medallist. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that while searching for an image of Phelps on Google for this article, a gay mens website was on the first page of results “Michael Phelps”! Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Source - http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/ordine/blog/2008/10/pokers_hellmuth_latches_onto_p.html

Players head to Full Tilt in droves….

According to the news channel WECT 6 in New Hanover County, the Sheriff’s Office destroyed 20 video poker machines Tuesday morning. Taken from homes and businesses that were operating the machines illegally, the extreme measure was taken to ensure the public wouldn’t use the machines again.

Since being outlawed in North Carolina in 2007 there’s been multiple arrests and seizures of these machines from private homeowners and business owners alike. The rumors are swirling that these were actually the last 20 video poker machines left in North Carolina, so the Sheriffs Office has apparently done their job in ridding the state of these dreadful machines.

There’s also an Internet movement that’s trying to guide all 44 of the people that actually played on these machines to sign up at Full Tilt Poker so that they can play a game of REAL poker.