Do you want a continual stream of deposit bonuses?

Well, Absolute poker are industry-famous for offering reload bonuses almost every week. They are also growing rapdily and are closing in on a top 5 spot in terms of size.

Party's cashier is very quick. Deposits are instant (no surprises there) and withdrawals are almost as fast. Typically it is less than 12 hours for neteller, and is usually about 3 or 4. This is very pleasing, especially since there have been a lot of limited term bonuses recently and I hope they'll be offering more to try and hold on to the European and Canadian players.

This is the poker wing of Casino On Net (one of the big boys of the online casino world). This is mostly a good thing, because it provides a steady flow of gamblers who just want to play that holdem thing with the money they won at blackjack.

The online home of Phil Hellmuth!! - The world champion of 1989 (and of exclamtion marks, see his book) plays at Ultimate Bet.

Ultimate Bet is a part of the second tier of poker rooms (that's what I call the five or six top rooms that aren't Party poker). This is definately not because Ultimate Bet is lacking in any way, just because Party became a monster room over the last couple of years.

Play with the pros! Full Tilt Poker is taking a shot at the big time. So far they've been doing almost everything right, and are now one of the top three sites in terms of active players.

They've got the big name endorsements. More than that, people like Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Jennifer Harman, and several other top pros are actually involved with running the company.

Another casino organisation tries to get a piece of the poker boom.

Poker Time use the Microgaming (Prima) Software. Prima run the poker rooms for a lot of online casinos, and total a reasonable size poker site. The players aren't bad, but they aren't good. I'm not a great poker player, but I managed to win fairly consistently over a week or so .

Cake Poker are a joint venture between a BVI investment fund and ADLM (one of the bigger european online gambling companies). Not surprising that a global alliance like this would offer a promotion to send you to the World Poker Tour.

Paradise Poker is one of the top poker sites in size and they have some very nice software and promotions. It's paradise, baby!

Paradise's players are about average for the internet - a few are really terrible, mostly pretty bad, a few solid ones, and the ocassional very good player. There's enough players at lower levels that you can always find a good game.

This is a casino organisation who decided to get a piece of the poker boom. Some casino-based sites are good, or even excellent, but a lot are just sucky, "me-too" offerings. When I first visited Golden Tiger, they were just that. To their credit, they have turned it around in recent years and I was impressed the last time I checked them out.