On-Line Poker for Cash Prizes

As many regular readers here know, I love playing poker, and particularly No Limit Hold'Em. I've played at most of the big name on-line poker sites and don't like any of them.. usually because there are too many "all-in all the time" players.

I don't play at the cash sites for two reasons: the first being that I'm not that good a player and the second being that the U.S. has made on-line gambling illegal, and although poker is really much more a game of skill than it is gambling, the guardians of our morals don't see it that way.

I started playing at http://www.fleetstreetgames.com last night. This is a membership site ($9.95 a week, cheaper if you sign up for longer periods), so you don't get the ridiculous play you see at the free sites. Also, they are paying cash prizes for winning tournaments - not much, but if you are playing for fun, it certainly doesn't hurt to win a little cash with it.

For example, I played in a tournament last night and won $7.50 for taking 12th place in a field of 86. First place paid $100, but as it took almost five hours to get there, that's a pretty poor hourly wage.

But that's not the point. If you love to play poker, you'll play for nickels or pennies as long as it's fun. But usually playing for pennies or nickels isn't fun, because nobody ever folds and it just becomes a pretty stupid game of luck, right? That doesn't happen here: the competition is serious and people are playing very hard to win.

If you like NLHE poker, give this a try.