I need some honest opinions!

I play a lot of poker online and have played on numerous sites, the 2 sites I played on the most before they were basically not allowed to let U.S players join and play for real money, pokerstars & Full Tilt, since then I play on Carbon Poker, Black Chip Poker, and occasionally Lock Poker. In your opinions what are the best online sites for U.S players to join and play for real money?

King_Poker33 said:

I play a lot of poker online and have played on numerous sites, the 2 sites I played on the most before they were basically not allowed to let U.S players join and play for real money, PokerStars & Full Tilt, since then I play on Carbon Poker, Black Chip Poker, and occasionally Lock Poker. In your opinions what are the best online sites for U.S players to join and play for real money?

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Well, personally I HATE Carbon and Black Chip. I banned myself from these sites.

The only site I trust is Bovada. Cashouts less than a week, a lot of traffic and good action.

The 100k on sundays is a great way to score 25k for 162$.

Bovada hands down.

Carl Trooper said:

Well, personally I HATE Carbon and Black Chip. I banned myself from these sites.

The only site I trust is Bovada. Cashouts less than a week, a lot of traffic and good action.

The 100k on sundays is a great way to score 25k for 162$.

Bovada hands down.

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I guess you had to ban yourself, before they banned you.
You should re-look into the owners of BCP!

BCP seems to have quite a few fish around. Software is frustrating tho

I like that Bovada site. You don't have to worry about some math wiz figuring all the +EV plays against you based on their HUD.

I play at Carbon, I just do not see Bovada as real poker. Not knowing who you are play against is absolutely ridiculous.

I play on Bovada. Fast reliable payouts

fasteddee74 said:

I just do not see Bovada as real poker. Not knowing who you are play against is absolutely ridiculous.

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Totally agree with this ^

'but'... if I lived in the U.S. that is (unfortunately) the site I would choose to play on (& to a lesser degree 'BlackChip' 'True' or 'A.C.R.' < one of those 3 sites)

Bovada by far is the best that I have found. Lots of nice deep tournaments with nice prizepools. Payouts are very quick. Had my check within 6 days of cashout.

King_Poker33 said:

I play a lot of poker online and have played on numerous sites, the 2 sites I played on the most before they were basically not allowed to let U.S players join and play for real money, PokerStars & Full Tilt, since then I play on Carbon Poker, Black Chip Poker, and occasionally Lock Poker. In your opinions what are the best online sites for U.S players to join and play for real money?

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a lot of personal preference for what is the best:
but based on
some think u care
cash out speed -- bovada, merge, etc
traffic -- I don't know but think merge and bovada, but BCP has less traffic
software -- merge is the best, [Vector table, good emotion code, enough fun] bovada is good as well, BCP is more pokerstar like
easy to access -- good customer support I don't know. but I think Lock is more accessible, at least they have live support. and same with BCP.

so based on that, USA player do not have that many choice for real.

I would put , Merge, Bovada, as 1st choice
and on the second group , Lock, BCP/ACR
third group, any other poker room, may be cake, etc etc.

fasteddee74 said:

I play at Carbon, I just do not see Bovada as real poker. Not knowing who you are play against is absolutely ridiculous.

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What do you not like, the anonymous tables or the no use of huds? Imho any online poker room that allows huds is a shady site.

Zin said:

What do you not like, the anonymous tables or the no use of huds? Imho any online poker room that allows huds is a shady site.

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I agree.

If anything annoymous poker seems more real to me. You go to a casino and you sit down with randoms. Thats how it is there. I like it to a certain extent.

I certainly wouldn't mind player names again... but they wont do this because of the whole grey area of online poker.

I def hate huds so I am glad they don't exist there.

I have an account on pokerstars and full tilt poker, and I'm wondering whether to create an account on bovada . Only question now is how they look at players with Polish ? Whether the poker room is easy in the handling, if you do not speak English?

I"m bpoker721 on skype .. can give u soem really good advice.

In my opinion have to get good rakeback or play 2/4 nl or higher to make poker realy profitable..

If playing lower stakes with no rakeback ... better off quitting that in general and playing muli tournies

did not know there were so many poker rooms! .. wow