POKER NEWS ONLINE

Best Action at an Online Poker Room: Full Tilt Poker

They’ve been around only a few years, but Full Tilt Poker has some of the best action going. We give them this award, not because they have the most active players, but because they have the best action of all the great poker rooms.

There are rooms that have more players, but none of those rooms come close to the combination of a classy room, great customer service, excellent graphics, and many players at all levels.

Best Poker Book (General): Super System by Doyle Brunson

This classic book is considered by the pros to be the best book ever written on poker! Jam-packed with advanced strategies, theories, and tactics and money-making techniques - no serious new online poker player can afford to be without this hard-hitting information.

Includes fifty pages of the most precise poker statistics ever published. Features chapters written by poker’s biggest superstars, such as Dave Sklansky, Mike Caro, Chip Reese, Bobby Baldwin, and Doyle - two world champions and three master theorists.

Best Online Poker Education: Poker School Online

Once again, this is an easy award to give out for two reasons. First and most important, Poker School Online is a high quality, professional, economical, and well-respected online school for poker players of varied skill levels.

Second, no other similar school even comes close to providing what Poker School Online does.

Best Online Poker Room and Sportsbook: Bodog

Bodog Poker has one thing the other winners this year do not - an online sportsbook. With one account you can use your money to play poker as well as bet on a game, horse, or any of the weird-ass propositions going.

Best Online Poker Room: Absolute Poker

Absolute Poker is this year’s winner of the of the best online poker room. Absolute Poker features all of the standard ring tables and tournaments. Ring game tables range from micro limits ($0.02/$0.04) on up to high limit tables.

The graphics and user interface are excellent. Beyond the tables, Absolute Poker features their Player’s Lounge where users can read poker articles and information as well a view multimedia material.

Best Online Poker Software: Poker Office

Poker Office comes with a Live Advisor Window that displays real time opponent modeling of the players you are currently facing, real time probabilities of future hands, hand rankings, pot odds and live graphs and statistics.

Poker Office tracks all of your opponents actions as well as your own game. It stores all of the collected data and brings you summarized statistical reports, spreadsheets and graphs of your own and your opponents play. Need we say more on poker awards?

Winning Omaha/8 Poker by Mark Tenner, Lou Krieger

This excellent book from two top Omaha players is top notch. Mark Tenner has been playing and winning on a regular basis for 40 years, and can generally be found playing in the highest limit games. For the last several years, Mark has played Omaha/8 almost exclusively.

His peers consider him one of the finest minds in the game because of his almost uncanny feel for how Omaha/8 should be played. It is this special gift, along with general expertise, that Mark Tenner brings to this book.

Because he is also a skilled communicator, he succeeds in imparting not only tips and techniques but his unique process of analysis and thinking.

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