Ichiban in Japanese means 'First', 'Number One', 'The Best'. The author of Ichiban says this is the best website for Los Angeles poker information. The site has news, articles, information on Los Angeles casinos, a forum and an Audio poker blog.

The International Poker Federation (IPF) establishes standardized rules and procedures which are accepted by players and operators, and provide staff training to help casinos to improve their standards. They also occasionally set up high-class and player-friendly poker festivals as part of the international tournament program. Their website contains IPF world rankings, poker strategy articles and a forum.

The blather without the blarney! Irish Poker is an excellent regional resource which does justice to it's name by featuring an almost exclusively Irish venue. They review poker rooms like 'Paddy Power' (on the Tribeca Network), list poker clubs in Dublin and other areas, and poker programs available on Irish TV, and provide forms where local tournaments can advertise. They also have a decent section on strategy for beginning an advanced players, and a link to an Irish hosted forum.

A quirky little site, but they do have an adequate set of articles on poker strategy and a listing of tournaments at the online poker rooms which you can sort by poker room, game type, limits, and minimum and maximum buy-in.

Basic poker rules and information.

The official website of the Lafayette (Indiana) Poker Players Association. Never heard of them before? Well they currently host the Lafayette Holdem League, and in 2007 they plan to provide some punch to the Indiana poker scene with the Lafayette Poker Tournament.

Let's Poker is a well rounded resource site with WSOP articles, info on how to play various poker games, a terrific poker blog, a forum, and photo features of a gorgeous group of women called the 'Let's Poker Girls'.

We probably have not yet seen a site which lists poker events in so many different countries. The USA, Canada and the UK are represented, but unlike any other sites we know of, almost every country in the entire European continent (including Eastern Europe), Africa and South America are included as well.

Twin Cities Poker is Minnesota's first dedicated poker community website. They have listings of poker games in your area, and also have a lists of people who have signed up as players available for games and as coaches willing to give instruction in poker. Minnesota Poker rooms and their features are listed, and there are news articles dealing specifically with poker in Minnesota.

This is a great site with lots of fresh, new and interesting material. It contains a long list of good reviews, stories and articles on the relatively new phenomenon of poker games that are available on your mobile phone, but it has a great series of texas holdem strategy articles too, as well as a new startup forum.

An irreverent look at poker by a group of friends who have been getting together every Monday night in the DC metro area without fail for the past 10 years to play poker, smoke smelly cigars and just generally be Guys. Movie quotes, photos of bare assed chicks on the ballot for Babe of the Month, and an assortment of other alpha-male offerings.

Brief treatise on poker rules, strategy, hand ranking, odds calculation and some online card rooms bonus reviews.

This site has some strategy articles and league information, but it's main goal is to provide information on freeroll tournaments. If you're new to the concept, a freeroll is a poker tournament with no entry fee. Most of the time the poker site promoting the freeroll offers cash prizes to the top finishers, and sometimes there are gifts and additional incentives.

No single item on this website jumps out at you, but Online Poker 55 provides the standard fare of reviews for some major onlike poker rooms, plus a few other features that are general in nature, some of them helpful and not usually found on other sites. For example, there is a pretty good explantion of how different satellite tournaments work – most sites will list the schedule for satellites but no really explain the rules.

Poker Party has reviews of online poker rooms, poker rules, tips, hand odds and an up to date feed of news stories related to poker. They have a decent set of poker articles, many by well known authors like Bob Ciaffone, Lou Krieger and Mike Caro, plus a set of articles by Andrew Glazer which we found particularly sound. Finally, they offer some poker supplies for sale – they had Big Slick poker chips for only 19 cents each when we visited.

Online Poker Ratings has compiled ratings of the best online card rooms by drawings data from highly ranked websites that themselves have rankings based on input from players. The result is several good lists of rankings based on player input, and the site also has it's own voting section so that visitors can create a 'top ten' list right on the site.

Strategy articles giving advice on position, starting hands, odds, bluffing, tilting and bankrolls are provided along with features on bonuses and rakeback programs designed to help you keep more of your money. Read the reviews of online poker rooms for information about the games, limits, tournament types and buy-ins at those sites.

Online Poker Rooms has reviews of online poker rooms, rules of Texas Holdem, Omaha Holdem and 7 Card Stud, features on bluffing and beating the rake as well as news and articles, many about recent developments and offerings in the online card rooms.

In particular we liked the way they presented their topics – a feature on the item, followed by links to 5 or 6 more articles on the same subject. And there are a LOT of subjects. The 'Advanced Play' section and the 'Tournament Poker' section (which is a monstrous tutorial examining every aspect of tournament play) are the most comprehensive, but they still don't make a dent in the total amount of information and resources available at this site.

The site has some brief reviews of online poker rooms, and some equally brief features on rules and tips for texas holdem and seven card stud. They do list some good poker articles however, and although their source is not noted, the site appears to add them at the rate of 20 or 30 a month – this would appear to be the most attractive feature of the site.

Poker player websites in Asian countries are rapidly growing in number, and Pagoda Poker provides rules of poker, poker strategy, poker terms, online poker rooms, asian poker clubs and sites, so that people living in Asia can get all their poker information from one spot. Many features are in Japanese and the poker news articles focus more on Asia than any other news services we have seen.

The website has some features on learning to play and some tournament info, but the focus is on the columnists – and for poker the 'Pocket Aces' column by Maryann Guberman is the one to watch. Maryann has been a writer and editor with many gaming publications, and she writes a new article each week for the column.

Here is an example of the advice you will find at Poker 123 - “Real tournaments are held at real poker rooms. Here, all depends on your self-control and transparence of the sunglasses.” Huh? Or how about this feature on Poker Tables - “Poker tables appeared much earlier than poker itself. The first tables were the ground, the grass, the sand - any natural Earth cover that you can imagine. Then humanity invented tables to eat on them.” What ??? We have no idea if this site is supposed to be a comedy or whether the authors are just ignorant, but we sure got a good laugh out of it.

Poker 777 has a bit of everything – rules, strategy, tips, news, books, online poker tournaments, poker forum, poker supplies, reviews of online card rooms, and a useful table listing all the various creators of online poker software, their history and the way their programming differs from other software developers. Also explains how to check algoriths used at the online card room of your choice to confirm that the shuffling of the deck is truly as random as it should be.

The site has reviews of several online poker rooms with rankings on software, tournaments, game design, rake, promotions, bonuses and banking options. Tutorials are provided with rules for texas holdem and other variants of poker, and the site has a list of poker articles, including Q&A's from such well known players as Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth. Also has a huge list of poker supplies for sale, which is unusual for a poker resource site.