There are dozens of online poker sites available, and it can be difficult to decide which ones to play at. Some of the major players include PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker, and UltimateBet. While they each have their own special features and game selection, they all are reliable for cash outs and customer service, which is why they are the big players in the online poker world. Here we’re going to take a look at a few of the best online poker sites available and what makes them special.
The leader of the pack for all intents and purposes is PokerStars. They have excellent customer service, are super reliable, and offer a very wide range of cash games and tournaments. PokerStars is home to a large number of professional players, including Chris Moneymaker, Daniel Negreanu, and Barry Greenstein. PokerStars has the most players of any online poker room, and even the most obscure games like triple stud usually have tables running all the time.
In terms of the number of players on at any given time, Full Tilt Poker is just behind PokerStars, but Full Tilt Poker has some advantages over its main competitor. First off, Full Tilt Poker has a very large stable of high-level professional players that play poker there regularly in some of the biggest online poker games in the world. It’s not uncommon to see $500/1000 no-limit hold’em or pot-limit Omaha games going, or $3000/6000 fixed-limit hold’em matches. High stakes players like Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan make Full Tilt Poker their home, and Full Tilt Poker also hosts a number of games that PokerStars does not, like A-5 lowball games.
Due to the Cereus Network merger, Absolute Poker and UltimateBet share all of the same tables and players. Together, they have a very good player base, and a lot of promotions and bonuses. In fact, there is almost always at least one reload bonus happening on the Cereus Network, which amounts to hundreds of free dollars potentially given out to individual players each month. They also have a bad beat jackpot, which PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker do not have, which awards thousands of dollars over and over again to people who have the worst bad beat.
All of these sites have their own advantages and disadvantages, so what it all comes down to when choosing a site to play on is personal preference.