Current Online Poker Rooms
Below you'll find the smaller set of online poker rooms we still actively highlight on this site. For rooms that are no longer current, we preserve some older reviews elsewhere on the site as historical reference only.
See the bottom of this page for a key to our Ratings
Bovada Poker offers a unique anonymous-table experience that feels different from the older, screen-name-heavy rooms that used to dominate online poker. Bovada's official help pages say it remains open to many U.S. residents, but not all states, so readers should check Bovada's current restricted-state list before signing up. We also have a review of the room.
Available in many U.S. states. Check current state restrictions.
America's Card Room continues to market itself to U.S. players and remains one of the rooms we still mention for readers looking for tournament-heavy action. ACR's official site maintains a U.S. state-by-state poker guide, so we treat it as a room available to many U.S. readers, but people should still check ACR's current terms and their local law before signing up.
Available in many U.S. states. Check ACR terms and local law.
Our Rating Bar
| Poker Room Rating: Excellent -- Bonus: Check Current Offer -- Opponent Skill: Medium | Review Available |
Every poker room above has a rating bar attached to it describing the overall quality of the cardroom, the current bonus and the quality of the player population. If we have a more detailed review of the poker room the Review Available button will also appear.
Poker Room Rating: This is a description of the overall quality of the poker room. We include factors like the quality of the game interface, the quality and stability of the company running the poker room, and the speed that they process deposits and withdrawals.
Bonus: This describes the first time deposit bonus (if any) offered by the poker room. Typically this is a percentage of your deposit up to a certain amount. In all cases the poker rooms do NOT give you actual cash for your bonus. Instead they give you some version of "bonus dollars" which are converted to real money as you actually play real-money poker. The speed that the bonus dollars are converted to real money depends on several factors including the individual cardroom, the limit you are playing (bonuses clear faster at $3-$6 than $0.25-$0.50) and the size of the bonus (the larger bonuses typically clear slower than the smaller ones).
Opponent Skill: This is the overall quality of your opponents at the cardroom. In this case LESS is MORE! In other words you want to play against players with lower Opponent Skills if possible. A value of LOW in this rating is a great place to play poker against inexperienced players.