Online Gambling

The FBI has shut down Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, UltimateBet, and Absolute Poker. Visitors are shown a message saying, “This domain name has been seized by the F.B.I. pursuant to an Arrest Warrant.”. (Read the full article at the LA Times.)

Until all of this gets sorted out, here is a list of  the top 5 online poker sites that accept US players. (In case you are interested, here is the full list of all online poker sites that accept US players.)

Bodog Poker: 110% bonus
Create an account and download Bodog Poker for free with our Getting Started Guide. Play free online poker on our play money tables or head straight to the real money tables and earn Bodog Poker Points.

Sports Interaction Poker: 110% bonus
Bonus code: signup110. You can play for free, or at our 24/7 cash games and enter any of the tournaments of your choice. All you have to do is download, register, and play.

Poker4Ever: 100% bonus
POKER4EVER.com is a fast-growing cardroom offering your favorite poker games: Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi, Omaha Hi/Lo, and 7 Card Stud. POKER4EVER.com also offers the ultimate tournament experience with its multi-table tournaments

BetUS Poker: 110% bonus
We have an amazing new first time deposit bonus for all our new players. We offer you 110% bonus up to a fantastic $1000. Simply make a deposit, in the poker room click rewards, deposit bonus and enter the code POKER1000.

Doyles Room Poker: 100% bonus

You won’t be able to find another poker room where you can participate in tournaments, ring games and heads up matches with Doyle Brunson — author of SUPER SYSTEM (the bible of poker), winner of 10 WSOP Bracelets and player in every single WSOP.

Big Bet Poker is getting into the holiday spirt of giving by hosting five online poker freerolls every other day from now through Monday, December 27, 2010. If you missed the first day of poker freerolls yesterday, get into the poker action starting tomorrow. Here is the schedule for each day of the Big Bet Poker online poker freerolls.

Real-money players are all automatically entered into 12 48-hour holiday dashes — the top ten point earners from real money play share in $1000 prize pool. $350 is the prize for the first-place finish, and there’s an additional $100 bonus awarded to any player that wins consecutive dashes (one bonus per player).

Big Bet Poker is on the Merge Poker Network, and welcomes players from all US states.

I’ve just finished a long-overdue update to the online poker freeroll schedule that lists over 200 online poker freerolls across a dozen or so online poker rooms. The online poker freerolls schedule page displays all online poker freerolls for the current day in an easily filterable list. In addition, there is a PDF version of a full week’s worth of online poker freerolls.

Check out the schedule and use it to plan your attack on the many online poker freerolls that are available.

Let me know when you take down a online poker freeroll tournament. And please — tell your friends about this online poker freerolls schedule. They’ll appreciate it!

I’ve combined the online poker freeroll schedule from several online poker sites. You can filter the schedule by day of week, time of day, and game, etc. There’s a freeroll running 24-7, and nearly all of them are available to US players.

The Poker Player’s Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide, seeks to raise additional funds leading up to a crucial vote this summer on legislation to license and regulate online poker. On July 1, their goal is to raise $50K.

Please donate — even if it’s just a buck!

Start off the New Year by trying some new sites. Here are my top picks to start off 2010. All of the sites below accept players from all US States.

Bingo

• Free Bee Bingo – $50 FREE + 200% bonus on initial deposits between $25 and $9999!
• 123 Bingo Online – $25 FREE + 1000% bonus on initial deposits between $10 and $9999!
• Bingo Flash – $20 FREE + 250% bonus on initial deposits between $10 and $9999!
• BingoVille – $10 FREE + 150% bonus on initial deposits between $50 and $10000!
• BingoRoom – 150% bonus on initial deposits between $50 and $10000!

Casino

• Intertops RED Casino – 100% bonus on initial deposits between $20 and $100!
• US-Blackjack.com – 100% bonus on initial deposits between $25 and $100!
• Superbook.com Casino – 10% bonus on initial deposits between $20 and $500!

Horses

• All Horse Racing – 10% bonus on initial deposits between $20 and $1000!
• Horse Betting – 10% bonus on initial deposits between $20 and $1000!
• Go Horse Betting – 10% bonus on initial deposits between $20 and $1000!

Poker

• Poker Stars – 100% bonus on initial deposits between $10 and $600!
• Full Tilt Poker – 100% bonus on initial deposits between $10 and $600!
• Poker4Ever – 100% bonus on initial deposits between $20 and $150!
• Spin32 Poker – 100% bonus on initial deposits of between $10 and $600!
• Bizipoker3D – 30% bonus on initial deposits between $10 and $666!

Skill

• Spadester – $4 FREE + 100% bonus on initial deposits between $20 and $100!
• Play65 – 40% bonus on initial deposits between $20 and $500!

Sports

• Intertops Sportsbook – $20 FREE + 10% bonus on initial deposits between $50 and $250!

Have a lucky 2010!

Full Tilt Poker has released a new version of their software that includes two cool new features:

• Run the board twice in cash game all-in situations (provided all players agree)
• New Cashout tournaments, allowing players to cashout some or all of their tournament chips before the end of the tournament

Also, you can be a part of the November Nine at the World Series of Poker* via the Full Tilt Poker “Win a Piece of Ivey” promotion that is currently underway at their site. By playing in designated poker games on Full Tilt Poker, you can win a percentage of whatever Phil Ivey wins at the WSOP* Main Event.

* World Series of Poker and WSOP are trademarks of Harrah’s License Company, LLC (“Harrah’s”). Harrah’s doesn’t sponsor or endorse, and is not associated or affiliated with, The Online Casino Gambling Directory or its products, services, promotions or tournaments.

This one’s a game changer. We’ve added a sweet side pot to select tables to bring you a more intense kind of poker – and UltimateBet is the only place to play it.

It’s called Seven Deuce and it’s guaranteed to bring more action, bigger bets, larger pots and insane rivalries to the tables in a way that makes most regular high stakes games look like amateur hour.

What’s the Deal?

Monstrous pots are what online poker is all about. And Seven Deuce delivers.

Everyone who sits down at a Seven Deuce table places a prop bet into an additional side pot. The next player at the table to win a hand of online poker holding 7-2 as their hole cards wins the side pot.

Now here’s where it gets interesting. Winning with 7-2 isn’t about calling every raise and getting lucky on the river. It’s about playing your cards like a champion regardless of the hand you’ve been dealt.

Winning while holding the nuts is one thing. But winning with 7-2 after enticing big bets and forcing everyone to fold on the river? Now that’s just nuts.

More Action. More Intensity. More Money.

The side pot is a magical addition that dramatically changes the game in a way you won’t believe.

With the additional side pot, you’ll find more players bluffing with 7-2, hoping that everyone will fold like a cheap chair so that they can grab the side pot and laugh in everyone’s face. And that means you’ll find lots of people calling big bluffs to try to stop the worst hand in poker from winning big.

You’ll also find people playing amazing hole cards but trying to fool the table into thinking they’re bluffing so that they can lure in the bets and snag an even bigger pot.

And that means enormous bets and more action from pretty much everyone at the table. It’s a crazy circle and you’re going to love it.

Feeding the Pot

Each time you join a Seven Deuce table, you pay into the side pot. You do not have to feed the pot again until someone wins with a 7-2. If you leave a table, you’ll get your side pot money back.

Winning the Pot

To win the side pot, just take down a pot with 7-2 at any point in a hand. You’ll have to show everyone that you were holding 7-2, but it’ll definitely be worth it.

Read all the Details

Head on over to UltimateBet and click the Seven Deuce banner on the homepage.

If you do not yet have an account at Poker Stars, now is the time to take the plunge. Poker Stars is a 5-star rated premier online poker room, touting such players as Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, Barry Greenstein, Isabelle Mercier, Daniel Negreanu, and dozens more. They offer one of the lowest deposit amounts in the industry – just $10 for credit card deposits, and $25 for eCheck deposits — and recently announced their largest initial deposit bonus ever offered — 100% up to $600 using bonus code STARS600.

Poker Stars accepts players from all US states, as well as from most other countries in the world.

Calling all low-rollers! FullTilt Poker has recently reduced their minimum deposit to a mere $10! They have also added micro-limit tables and $10K tourneys for just a $1.

If you can’t scrounge up $10 bucks to start playing online poker, you’ve got a problem.

FullTilt Poker accepts real-money players from all US states, and offers a 100% initial deposit bonus for new players, up to $600 bucks.