Online Poker Rooms

With online legends Annette_15 and Imper1um on their roster as well as sponsoring the WSOPE, its clear Betfair Poker is on the up. Aggressive marketing has stimulated a highly active player base and their numbers continue to grow. Being owned by The Sporting Exchange Limited, the worlds biggest sports exchange, gives them an unrivalled database of sports gamblers and with time is sure to become one of the big names of European and World Poker.

Bodog is a sportsbook and casino that has been operating since 1995, with the Bodog Poker branch of the business opening in 2004. The poker site is one of the hottest rooms today and is growing very rapidly, thanks to some great promotions.

Ladbrokes has been an established high street bookmaker for over 40 years and have now turned their attention to expanding their fledgling poker rooms. Traffic is always on the increase due to the very large number of great value promotions, freerolls and tournament leaderboards they always offer. They have also ventured into the TV market, with the Ladbrokes Poker Million proving a huge success.

Since joining the iPoker network and changing its software accordingly, Paddy Power Poker has seen a rapid increase in player traffic over the last year or so. Its light-hearted sporting sister site give it an excellent reputation and the sponsorship of WSOP Bracelet winner Ciaran O�Leary adds prestige from the poker world. With some of the best sign-up bonuses and promotions on the web to boot, it�s clear that Paddy Power Poker�s stock will continue to rise.

This is one of the gorillas on the block of online poker. We have heard much evidence to suggest that the players on Party Poker can be some of the worst players on the internet. This high percentage of 'fish' may be due to Party's strong marketing to the mainstream public and the constant influx of beginners who have little poker experience. Of course with such amateurish play, you can plan on taking some bad beats, but overall PartyPoker can be a very consistent money-maker. Its not all good news, however, as youll see from our evidence below.

PokerStars launched in 2001 and since then it has become a huge site, recently overtaking Party Poker to become the clear Market leader.

Titan Poker is the top room in the growing iPoker network, offering lots of high-value promotions, satellites and freerolls. The site is known for sending plenty of players to the biggest live events around the world and have now even reached the heights of running their own online poker series - the new $2.5 million European Championship of Online Poker.

UltimateBet is one of the biggest online poker rooms in the world and has had a very successful few years since its launch in 2000 thanks to major signings (notably Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke), creating one of the worlds great offline poker tournaments (the UltimateBet Aruba Classic) and a listing on the London stock market.