The explosion of interest in poker, online poker, and online gambling in general can be traced back to pretty much one game: Texas Hold’em. Chris Moneymaker’s astonishing World Series of Poker win sent untold numbers of players and would-be players online in the first few years of the century, coinciding with the reality TV craze and the maturing sophistication of the Internet as a whole.
So it’s no wonder that all of the poker sites that we’re discussing feature Texas Hold’em Poker — in fact, if these sites dropped everything BUT Texas Holdem, none would probably suffer too much. Casinos could always pick up the slack, anyway…
As a first stop on anyone’s Texas Hold’em tour, the obvious place would be the site of the man responsible for the game: Doyles Room. Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson, the Godfather of Texas Holdem, not only runs a top-notch online poker room but also provides some of the most comprehensive resources for anyone wishing to learn the game or improve their skills.
No single person could measure up to Doyle, but all of the pros at Full Tilt Poker put together make…an Academy. Full Tilt Poker Academy, in fact; in addition to the basics of using the software and how to play each of the major variants of poker, Full Tilt offers a full-on institute of higher learning at the site. We’re not just talking about pages of dry text here; interactive training and videos with Full Tilt’s best and brightest showing you how to do what they do best.
If poker pro videos are what you crave, both PokerStars and Bodog Poker offer up many hours of multimedia to enlighten and tighten your Texas Hold’em chops. Big names, big games, and quite a few easy-on-the-eyes faces grace these sessions…becoming a Texas Hold’em master has never been quite so easy and entertaining!
Of course, nothing will beat actually signing up and playing Texas Hold’em, but looking through the materials at these sites can make even the freshest fish achieve budding shark status.
