Online Poker Sites

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I've been looking through pokerlistings.com and I still can't decide on which site is better..
I'm looking to play around with a little money since my friends don't want to play poker more than once a week..
Which site do you like the most??

-Nathan

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I play on full tilt I think its the best by far

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Originally Posted by second_2_nun

I play on full tilt I think its the best by far

My friend prefers it as well, but I figured I would get a couple more opinions first.

EDIT: After reading through the detailed reviews, I would say that fulltilt seems to be the more clean looking of the bunch.

-Nathan

[aznshrek88]

Isn't it illegal to play in the US? Or just to deposit or something?

[SpecC]

fulltilt looks the best to me

pokerstars has the most people (which means more variety in everything)

that's the only two i know of that would interest me

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Originally Posted by aznshrek88

Isn't it illegal to play in the US? Or just to deposit or something?

heh.. I don't think anyone in the US can answer this question correctly.. Not even the law makers.
It all depends on the state I guess.. and why would a state such as mine ban the playing of a game named after itself.

Originally Posted by Texas Statutes

CHAPTER 47. GAMBLING

§ 47.01. Definitions

In this chapter:

(1) "Bet" means an agreement to win or lose something of value solely or partially by chance. A bet does not include:

(A) contracts of indemnity or guaranty, or life, health, property, or accident insurance;

(B) an offer of a prize, award, or compensation to the actual contestants in a bona fide contest for the determination of skill, speed, strength, or endurance or to the owners of animals, vehicles, watercraft, or aircraft entered in a contest; or

(C) an offer of merchandise, with a value not greater than $25, made by the proprietor of a bona fide carnival contest conducted at a carnival sponsored by a nonprofit religious, fraternal, school, law enforcement, youth, agricultural, or civic group, including any nonprofit agricultural or civic group incorporated by the state before 1955, if the person to receive the merchandise from the proprietor is the person who performs the carnival contest.

Originally Posted by Wire Act

Whoever being engaged in the business of betting or wagering knowingly uses a wire communication facility for the transmission in interstate or foreign commerce of bets or wagers or information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers on any sporting event or contest, or for the transmission of a wire communication which entitles the recipient to receive money or credit as a result of bets or wagers, or for information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

Since it is possible to label poker as a game of skill, it isn't considered betting so the law doesn't apply. The "prize" being the cash gathered at the beginning of the game that was exchanged for chips. Thus no betting/gambling/wagering is actually going on since people are playing with plastic chips that aren't worth anything. (Woops, kind of started talking about IRL poker.. It should apply to online as well)

Originally Posted by Texas Statutes

§ 47.02. Gambling

(a) A person commits an offense if he:

(1) makes a bet on the partial or final result of a game or contest or on the performance of a participant in a game or contest;

(2) makes a bet on the result of any political nomination, appointment, or election or on the degree of success of any nominee, appointee, or candidate; or

(3) plays and bets for money or other thing of value at any game played with cards, dice, balls, or any other gambling device.

(b) It is a defense to prosecution under this section that:

(1) the actor engaged in gambling in a private place;

(2) no person received any economic benefit other than personal winnings; and

(3) except for the advantage of skill or luck, the risks of losing and the chances of winning were the same for all participants.

I assume that your home/the internet is a private place.

-Nathan

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For those of you that play, do any of you use Poker office, Poker spy, Poker indicator, or Calculatem?? To figure out your odds??

-Nathan

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bump..

-Nathan

[E92-Lighting]

anyone actually win anything on this sites?

[HLDC11]

i played fulltilt, and i played with real money before but somehow they stop taking deposit so i quited

[Black///Mamba]

i have cashed out over 20k in the last 2 years on full tilt and pokerstars. and to be honest, that means i suck. for the time i've put in, it unfortunately isn't worth th emoney. but i have come awfully close to really hitting it big, but the cards just didn't fall right. so goes the life of a tournament player. months of losing, a few days of winning bundles of cash.

[yeung330xi]

Pokerroom....