CardsChat – About Us

We have over 385,000 members and counting! Our vision is to connect to every poker player in the world.

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CardsChat – Our Mission

Our mission is to be the most helpful, informative, and friendly poker community online. We do this by providing you with access to a poker forum run by true poker enthusiasts, poker strategy guides for all types of players, unbiased poker site reviews, exclusive freerolls and bonuses, and much more.

Through doing this, we believe we can accomplish our vision of connecting to and helping every poker player around the world. Since we launched in 2004, we’ve already grown to become one of the internet’s leading poker forums, featuring over 5,000,000 posts by more than 385,000 valued members!

  • The forum has over 385,000 friendly members from 190 countries
  • EVERY genuine CardsChat member enquiry is responded to within 24-48 hours
  • Members benefit from over $200,000 in exclusive freerolls and tournaments every year
  • We secure exclusive bonuses to help boost our members’ bankrolls
  • Enjoy access to one of the internet’s most comprehensive poker strategy resources
  • GPWA Approved
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One of the top forums out there for poker aficionados.

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Member Benefits

Friendly Community

As a CardsChat member, you’ll be part of our large online poker community. You’ll find players and poker fans of every skill and variety on our forums, who are all sure to give you a warm welcome when you join.

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Strategy & Odds Calculator

With so many poker players and experts pooling resources, CardsChat provides a wealth of instant knowledge on the game. Better still, members have access to tried and tested poker strategies and an indispensable poker odds calculator.

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News

The poker world is a fast moving one – especially online. When it comes to the biggest tournaments and the latest developments in the online gaming world, CardsChat members are sure to hear about things first.

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Freerolls

A poker tournament that is free to enter is always going to be a big winner with online poker fans. CardsChat secures exclusive freerolls for its members at the top poker sites, and our members enjoy thousands of dollars in winnings each year.

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Competitions

CardsChat isn’t just about freerolls. Whether it’s awarding cash prizes and merch for the top players on our Leaderboard or facing off against stiff competition in our League and special monthly events, CardsChat is always giving members fun and exciting new ways to build their bankrolls.

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Exclusive Bonuses

Here at CardsChat, we not only find our members the poker rooms offering the best welcome bonuses and promotions, we also secure exclusive bonuses that offer our members a far bigger bankroll boost than regular promotions would.

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CardsChat is an excellent site, a superb resource and a chance to network with all ranges of ability and talk poker. I love the freedom to explore poker related topics and also fun stuff whilst making new friends and learning more and more about the game I love. It’s an incredible site, well manned, monitored with lots of input. A class act.

pirateglenn
Joined Apr 2018 / 1,200+ posts
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It’s the people…There are some wonderful people here and I value my relationships with each and every one of them.

Joined Dec 2016 / 4,000+ posts
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I’ve been around for more than 15 years in everything that concerns poker, I’ve visited other sites but never found a forum as complete as this one…I love CardsChat and being here is part of every day.

mackmasterss
Joined Dec 2017 / 4,700+ posts

Meet The Team: A Community Of Players And Experts!

Below you can see all individuals who are responsible for this community.

CardsChat Forum

Debi

Forum Administrator

Debi O’Neill

Debi joined CardsChat in 2006 after running into one of the mods in a PokerStars sng. She She became a…

Tammy

Assistant Administrator

Tammy Parker

Tammy came to CardsChat in May of 2005 looking for a freeroll password. She quickly fell in love with the…

Martin Hackett

Assistant Administrator

Martin Hackett

Martin always enjoyed playing cards growing up. He found out about hold’em after watching several…

Forum Moderators

Shelley Knight

Forum Moderator

Shelley Knight

Shelley started playing poker a few years back when some members of her online Euchre club…

Chris Robinson

Forum Moderator

Chris Robinson

Chris started playing poker back in the early 2000’s with a group of friends in a game a home game that…

David Silveira

Forum Moderator

David Silveira

David’s first experience with poker was “donking it up” with co-workers on play money tables while…

Danilo Goncalves

Forum Moderator

Danilo Gonçalves

Danilo goes by the nickname “advoghado” in most poker rooms. He joined CardsChat…

Andreas Schmitz

Forum moderator

Andreas Schmitz

Andreas joined CardsChat in 2022 while looking for some freeroll passwords after…

Forum Guides

Dino

Forum Guide

Dino

Dino joined CardsChat in 2007. Born and raised in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Dino first…

Forum Guide

Debbie I.

Debbie has been an active forum member since 2009. Although she first joined for the freerolls, she stayed…

Forum Guide

Ken N.

Ken hails from New York and is known on CardsChat as “Luvepoker”. He played poker in his youth…

Forum Guide

Yannick T.

As a young child Yannick contracted a rare disease which almost killed him.  As a result, with…

Forum Guide

Delenia Partridge

Delenia came to CardsChat in 2015 looking for some quality poker games, found so much more, and…

Forum Poker Experts

Dara o'Kearny

poker Expert

Dara O’Kearney

An Irish former ultra-runner turned poker pro, Dara O’Kearney – aka ‘Doke’ – is a tournament expert with…

Ashley Sleeth

poker expert

Ashley Sleeth

Ashley has been a professional tournament player since 2017. After dabbling in cash game…

Chris Wallace

poker expert

Chris ‘Fox’ Wallace

Chris ‘Fox’ Wallace is a professional poker player, poker coach, photographer, and author. He won the…

Matt Vaughan

Poker Expert

Matt Vaughan

Matt has been playing poker seriously for a decade and has been a professional, coach, and poker vlogger…

Collin Moshman

Poker Expert

Collin Moshman

Collin studied mathematics at Caltech before discovering poker in 2004. He is the author of…

Katie Dozier

Poker Expert

Katie Dozier

Born in Miami, Katie began playing home games while studying creative writing at Florida State. She went…

Ryan Laplante

Poker Expert

Ryan LaPlante

Ryan has been playing poker professionally for over 10 years. He won a WSOP bracelet in 2016…

Jeff Gross

Poker Expert

Jeff Gross

Jeff Gross is an online and live poker pro originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan. He started playingsmall…

Nathan BlackRain79 Williams

Poker Expert

Nathan BlackRain79 Williams

Nathan began playing poker in late 2004, in a casual $5 game with friends. He got lucky that night and won…

John Anhalt

Poker Expert

John Anhalt

John Anhalt is a successful U.S. born poker player and entrepreneur. He started playing limit and no-limit…

News Team Of Poker Experts

dan-smyth

News Writer (International)

Dan Smyth

The former Strategy Editor at WPT Magazine has bluffed his way through the poker community…

Bob Pajich

News Writer (USA)

Bob Pajich

Bob Pajich is a reporter, creative writer, card player, and musician based in Pittsburgh, Pa. He’s…

Robbie Strazynski

CardsChat Podcast

Robbie S.

Robbie Strazynski is the host of the CardsChat podcast. He is the founder of Cardplayerlifestyle…

Social team

Donna Scruggs

Social Media Team

Donna Scruggs

Came for the freerolls, stayed for the fun.


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