Poker

I think I'm addicted to poker. More specifically online poker. Is that a bad thing? Hmmm. Anyway I've played at http://www.partypoker.com, http://www.partypoker.net, http://www.pokerparadise.net, and finally http://www.pokerstars.com. For the uninitiated, the .net sites are the free site alter egos of the real money sites. This is why the these sites are able to advertise on tv in the us, they only advertise the .net version of their site but they probably generate a lot of traffic on their .com versions just from people not paying that much attention (like me.....at first).

Anyway, by far the best site I've played on is pokerstars.com. Shouts out to my man Lee Jones who runs that site (and whose book Winning Low Limit Hold'em I bought a month ago, good read). I felt like I was playing against a bunch of bots (computer programs) when I played limit at partypoker. Pokerstars appears to be legit. Plus they have much better tournaments than partypoker. The level of play at pokerstars seems to be ok. I'm still not that good but I feel like I can hang with most of the people playing at the low level limit tables and the lower buy-in tournaments.