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Absolute Poker is a very popular poker room which features a $50 freeroll every 30 minutes and a 100% up to $300 bonus.
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Poker.com is one of the fastest growing online poker rooms sporting great customer service and over $5,000 in daily freerolls.
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Paradise Poker runs great promotions including the world's only 1 million dollar freeroll and the Paradise Masters.
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Titan Poker features great sit & go tournaments as well as a generous 150% bonus up to $500 for new players.
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PokerRoom.com is going stronger than ever and is now the net's 3rd largest, featuring World Poker Tour qualifiers.
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Hollywood Poker is a great new room co-owned by actor gone poker player James Woods as well as World Poker Tour host & commentator Vince Van Patten.
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Noble Poker is one of the leading online poker rooms with daily $100 freerolls as well as a 50% signup bonus.
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Pacific Poker is generally considered to have the easiest opponents of any site thanks to their many casino players who try to play poker as well.
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  | Game: No-Limit Texas Hold'em | Position: Middle
| Blinds: $10/$20
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You're raising three times the big blind before the flop and get two players with you, including the player on the button. Flop comes and deals Ac-Js-Ts. First player raises by $20 and you decide to raise to $60. One player folds, button goes all-in. You have $620 left, a call costs you $250. What do you do?
| Call (Correct) (74%) |  | | Fold (26%) | |
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| Amarillo Slim (Correct) (45%) | | | Doyle Brunson (8%) | | | James Woods (7%) | | | Phil Ivey (40%) | |
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How many hours do you spend on playing online poker every week?
| 1 hour (4%) | | | 10+ hours (25%) | | | 3 hours (6%) | | | 7 hours (9%) | | | Never tried it (57%) | |
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"I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand."
- Jonathan Swift
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| No taxes for Joe Hachem | 21st December, 2005 |
 Only a few months ago Australian poker champion Joseph Hachem beat the world and scored $7,5 million at World Series of Poker. Since his major score Hachem managed to score another $2,5 million in various tournaments, and now, Australian authorities let him off any taxation.
The Australian tax office decided Hachem won't have to pay income tax on his $10 million winnings from Las Vegas because he was "pursuing a hobby". Apparently Hachem wasn't considered doing business by the time he participated at the world championships.
"As a result of this finding, the poker winnings were classified as income derived from a hobby, and thus not subject to Australian tax," said Hachem's lawyer, Peter Donovan.
Because of the tax office's rule, poker players are allowed to score big bucks about one time before they have to start paying taxes. It is possible that this case will be looked at very soon as winners of other poker tournaments surely will claim their innocence as newcomers and lucky SOB:s. | | | - written by Betty Holden |
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