You can find a description of the rules for several different poker games including Holdem, Omaha, Caribbean Stud, Let it Ride, 5 card stud, 7 Card Stud, Chicago and Lowball. Site also has articles on poker tips and strategy, as well as features on tournaments and calculating pot odds.

A long list of very good articles on how to play poker is the main draw at this site, but there are many other resources as well. They have a tournament schedule which focuses on the major tournaments (and includes online poker rooms only when they play satellites to the main tourney), the book reviews are absolutely phenomenal, and there are other miscellaneous features that add up to make this a very informative website overall.

Billed as a beginners site, they still have many features on poker news articles via feed links to news sites, as well as beginners poker tutorials with tips, strategies, common mistakes to avoid, poker and taxes, tournament play. Also contains reviews, features and summaries of online poker rooms with ratings on features and security.

If you can get past the 'look down your nose at the Americans' attitude you should find some decent information at 'Bet Euros'. They are affiliated with the Poker Web so some of their news features are off site, but many of the links to gaming news are their own. They also offer rules and tips for playing online poker, and a directory of live poker rooms worldwide.

Get the official Texas Hold Em Poker Rules at CasinoRuleBook.com. Texas Hold Em Rules, Black Jack Rules, and more - plus beginner and advanced strategies for all your favorite casino games.

Coach Poker is the website of Derek Mithaug, who has been playing professional and semi pro poker for 20 years, and has dozens of club tournament wins and final table finishes. He offers poker coaching for a fee, everything from hourly instruction to a full 12 week poker course. For the serious poker enthusiast only.

The site is simply a set of pages displaying the rules for the most popular variations of poker. Included are introductions to texas holdem, 7 card stud, omaha high, omaha 8 and strip poker.

Instructions on how to play Texas Holdem, Omaha High, Omaha 8, 7 Card Stud and Stud 8. Also has good set of articles and tips including bluffing, table position and techniques, poker tells, and profiles of many poker pros.

A good series of articles on Holdem. Articles are on strategy, raising, bluffing, tells, common mistakes and an introduction to what you can expect in real life card rooms.

According to this site, the best way to learn poker is not from books, not from videos, but by having a seasoned professional look over your shoulder while you play and give detailed comments on all your moves. That is the service offered for sale at this poker instruction website.

The Online Play Poker site provides a description of how to play several types of poker games. For texas holdem, betting is reviewed at several levels - structured limit, spread limit, pot limit and no limit. Omaha rules and strategy are provided, and the rules section for 7 card stud in particular focuses on the difficulties of drawing certain hands, and the pros and cons of playing the game with varying degrees of aggresiveness. Reviews of a few different online poker rooms are also written up.

This site provides exactly the right type of information needed by beginners learning to play poker – namely, articles by poker professionals explaining various aspects of the game. They have a series of articles by 'El Blondie' (Dave Colclough), another series by Rory Monaghan, and yet a third by the pros at Full Tilt Poker – Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, John Juanda, Jennifer Harman, Erick Lindgren and others.

Simple site containing rules for about twelve different variants of poker plus some strategy articles for texas holdem on seat position, pre and post flop play, and bluffing.

The features are somewhat uneven but you can find some useful information if you look. The section on How to Play Poker is actually pretty extensive, encompassing some variants that you may or may not have heard about. The FAQ has some more rules, a bit of history and....the telephone numbers of every poker room in Las Vegas. How often do you see that?

An average sized set of instructions on texas holdem, omaha and seven card stud along with fairly substantial reviews of a few online poker rooms.

Primarily a portal for several online poker rooms but provides poker rules, tips and strategy for texas holdem, omaha and seven card stud to help you get started playing online. The information is presented in a series of panels describing basics, betting, stages of the hand, common mistakes and miscellaneous factors such as seat position and bluffing.

According to the authors, this site is aimed at creating the first online Pineapple Poker community. A place where “Pineapplers” around the world can unite as one. Crazy Pineapple Poker has been in the shadow of Texas Hold'em Poker for a number of years now, but the 'Pineapplers' believe that once you've mastered the game of Pineapple, you are the master of all holdem games.

Learn the basics of poker before signing up to play online. Articles include the rules of texas holdem, beginners tips, recommendations for note taking and a description of the player types you are likely to meet. Read the reviews of online card rooms and follow one of the links to play poker at one of the recommended sites using the bonus codes provided.

This is really great stuff. Al Spath, a well noted poker author and instructor offers lessons on an hourly basis. This is one-on-one poker instruction via telephone or audio chat with the professor sitting by your side, looking over your shoulder as you play online poker and guiding you every step of the way. We have to believe that even if you do this only as a one time shot for an hour it would be a fantastic experience. This is advanced poker instruction – not for beginners. And the website is well worth visiting just for Spath's articles and book reviews.

As it's name implies, Poker Kindergarten provides the basics needed by a beginner. Basic theory, types of poker, poker math, rules and strategy. Site also has a forum and a poker blog.

Poker Lessons has step by step instructions for how to play about a dozen different kinds of poker, and the major games have 'flash' tutorials – kind of a slide show effect with graphics. We were kind of looking forward to the tutorial on strip poker, but they recommend that you keep your underwear on. Darn. Site also has tips and strategy, tournament info, celebrity bio's and link to bloggers.

Who IS that sweet looking Asian doll on their web page? This site has an unbelievably huge amount of gambling topics, many with very technical descriptions. As such, the site tends to present an extremely analytical approach to playing poker, rather than an intuitive approach based on experience. Both approaches are worth studying, but if you need a lot of hard analysis of the various aspects of your game, then this is the site where you will find it.

The Poker Plumber gives instruction divided into beginner, intermediate and advanced levels to help players “stop their poker leaks”. This is done through a series of articles supplemented by quizzes to enforce important concepts. The focus is generally on Limit and No-Limit Hold'em.

This site has over $100K in Sponsorships, with Beginning & Advanced training. Features Multi-table Tournaments, Satellites & Ring Games with Play-Money, Leagues, Bankrolls & Rankings. The cost is only $14.95/mo – well worth it.

Covers rules, betting procedures, hand rankings, hand odds and strategy, with listings of casinos and rooms offering poker games online. Out Take: Lots of info for all levels, but multi page format with advertisements makes it hard to read.