Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Project Exploring the Internet: Day 31

I'm a Texas Hold'em FREAK. I LOVE the game. I thought I'd search for some Texas Hold'em sites.

TexasHoldemPoker.com explains the basic rules.



Do you know how popular Texas Hold'em poker is getting?

Check out these celebrities playing:
Lou Diamond Phillips, Ray Romano, Jason Alexander, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Brad Garrett, Travis Tritt, Maura Tierney

Before you go to a live game, you should check out poker terminology or you might not have a clue what people are talking about.

Places to play online?

Pokerstars.com - Right now there are 206,615 players playing at 9:45am. That's crazy! In the morning, as it is right now, there are a LOT of players from Europe. I play at pokerstars. One can play for play money or real money.

If you have Facebook you could try Facebook Poker. I'm more of a serious player. My experience on Facebook poker (1 time) was not good. Everyone on the table I was at did NOT know how to play. Everyone would bet with absolutely nothing hands. I didn't like it at all.

I feel pretty much the same way about Yahoo Poker. It's a bunch of people betting with nothing hoping to get lucky. Against 1 player, you can take all their chips because they are playing so poorly. Against a bunch of players doing that, one of them will get lucky against you.

I'd go with the Poker Stars play money site if I were just starting.

If you do play real money or know somebody that does, you should check out Official Poker Rankings. There, they show you how you or your friends finished in tournaments.

Poker to watch online:
2009 National Heads Up Poker Championship (49 min) - Hulu has all of the episodes. If you scroll down, you'll be able to watch all of them.

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