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Absolute Poker review

Absolute Poker is an absolutely perfect online poker website for an absolute poker purist and or fanatic. Absolute Poker has set the absolute standard for the world wide web as far as absolute quality online poker.

Lately Absolute Poker has taken online poker, if not all of online casino gambling, by storm with sign up bonuses and other promotions that are setting the standard for the industry. The traffic that these promotions and play bonuses are attracting is truly staggering but you would never know that you are visiting one of the most highly sought after websites in all of the world wide web once you visit Absolute Poker as their technology and software is truly second to none! (review).

Featured Poker Room

Full Tilt Poker is currently the 3rd largest poker site with over 20,000 players during peak times. Besides the software, you will be attracted to Full Tilt Poker by the quality and number of pros that represent and play on the site. Few people will ever have the opportunity to play or chat about golf with Tiger Woods, but on Full Tilt Poker you have lots of opportunity to play with and learn from the poker celebrities you see on TV.

Visit Full Tilt Poker.

If you never played poker online before, please read our beginner's guide first. If you already know the ins and outs of poker strategy, and you are just looking for a place to play and enjoy Poker, then read about the pros and cons of some popular poker rooms from a players' perspective. You won't find more objective and honest reviews anywhere.

Player profiles

Men 'The Master' Nguyen profile
(By Paul McGuire)

Men The Master Nguyen is one of the most colorful professional poker players you will ever come across. He started out as a Seven-card Stud player but has transformed into one of the best No Limit tournament players in the world. Hes friendly and will often be found talking non-stop at the tables. Hes usually spotted with his trademark beer, a Corona, near his stack of chips. In one infamous episode of the World Series of Poker, Men the Master snarfed on his Corona when it went down the wrong pipe. He spit the beer out all over his jacket and on the table in one of the funniest moments of the WSOP ever captured on TV.
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Poker rules and strategies

Whether you are a novice or an experienced card shark, we're convinced you will find something of interest in our comprehensive poker rules and poker strategies sections. The most important poker games - from Five Card Stud to Omaha, and Seven Card Stud to Texas Hold'em - are described as clear, concise, and accurate as possible, without failing to neglect their strategic complexities.

Poker tournaments

Both the 2003 and 2004 winner of the World Series of Poker, Chris Moneymaker and Greg Raymer respectively, won their entry ticket in an online poker tournament. Our poker tournament section features articles on multi-table and single-table tournament strategy, as well as reports on various brick-and-mortar tournaments, like the World Series of Poker, the World Poker Tour and the European Poker Tour.

Online poker news

Professional Poker is a Business

August 11, 2008 - Success at professional poker is widely different and is relative to what each individual professional poker players goals and needs are. Professional poker players are not all millionaires that make seven figure incomes every year. Some professional poker players may pull down as little as twenty or thirty thousand dollars per year, depending on their risk tolerance, skill level, and commitment. The one thing that all professional poker players have in common, however, is just that; PROFESSIONALISM! Professional poker is a business and professional poker players are businessmen.

Professional Poker is a Job

August 11, 2008 - There are as many wannabe professional poker players as there are poker players. Its every poker players dream to go pro and make a living from playing poker. With the online poker explosion that has taken place over the past few years there has never been a more opportune time to break into professional poker. The opportunities are truly unlimited. But so is the competition. EVERYONE has the same idea, to use the new avenue of online poker to become a professional poker player. The key, obviously, is to find a way to set yourself apart and break through into that elite group of those who can truly say that they are professional poker players.

Online Poker News Archive - August 2008

August 11, 2008 - On this page we've listed summaries of the most important news events of August 2008

Online Poker Explosion

March 28, 2008 - Online Poker Explosion

Online Poker News Archive - March 2008

March 28, 2008 - On this page we've listed summaries of the most important news events of March 2008

Online Poker News Archive - January 2008

March 28, 2008 - On this page we've listed summaries of the most important news events of January 2008

Online Poker Explosion

March 28, 2008 - Online Poker Explosion

Professional Poker Career

January 8, 2008 - The opportunity to launch a career in professional poker has never been greater than now, thanks to the emergence and explosive growth of online casino gambling. That being said, the opportunity is counter balanced by the fact that millions of other poker playing gamblers have the very same idea, which is to go pro with a professional poker career.

Online Poker News Archive - 2008: A year in review

March 28, 2008 - Below we've summarized the most important poker news stories of 2008. All news items are available through the monthly news archives.

Professional poker and online casino gambling

September 28, 2007 - Professional poker and online casino gambling have become synonymous and now go hand in hand through the first decade of the new millennium. The word-wide poker craze that has taken place over the past decade has led to many players going pro and making a full time living at playing poker. Online casino gambling card rooms are what have made this all possible.

Misconceptions about Professional Poker

September 28, 2007 - If you are one of the countless poker players that dream of turning professional, check yourself with some facts and with what NOT to do. Never before has it been more possible to have a professional poker career. Yet never before has it been so challenging as millions of poker players have the same idea and dream and they chase those dreams and aspirations at online casino gambling websites, which have opened the door to the dreams of those wanting a career in professional poker.