Limit Hold'em lends itself to a smaller edge. You are limited by how much you can bet, so fish are protected against making blatantly idiotic moves like calling all-in with bottom pair when you hold top set. Think about it mathematically. The bets are a mere fraction of the pot. So most of the time people call with a solid draw, they have good odds for the draw. Suppose you are playing a $1-$2 limit game (with no rake). You hold AK and your opponent has K4. Three players besides you and your opponent see the flop. The flop comes K69. You bet and he calls through the river. How much did your opponent expect to lose? Excluding the expected preflop loss, your opponent did not expect to lose that much. The pot going into the flop was $5. He called $1 so the pot was $7 after the flop. He then called $2 so the pot was $9 going into the river. Let's see how much your opponent lost in terms of expected value on each of the postflop streets. The way to calculate this expected value is his expected win (chance of winning * pot) - his bet.

Some further variants can be found on the Poker Variations page of the Invented Games section of this web site.

There is a separate page for Video Poker information and links.

Face to Face Poker Games
For people looking for a live Poker game in the UK, here is the UK Poker page which surveys the opportunities for playing casino-organised Poker.

The Poker Search site is a guide to Casino poker in the USA, which aims eventually to expand to give worldwide coverage.

Pokeroi.com provides another directory of casino poker in the USA.

The Chip Sharks site offers the facility for poker players looking for face to face games to contact other players and find games in their local area.

PokerEh.com provides information about Poker in Canada, including tournaments and a service for finding and hosting home games.

The Hands On Poker site lists information about local poker games in the USA and Canada, covering home poker games, brick and mortar poker establishment events, and online poker tournaments.

The Kick Ass Poker site, home of the Atlanta Poker Club, has news, strategy articles, poker information and information about local tournaments.

All In Poker Tournaments specialises in hosting poker tournaments for charities, corproations and private clubs in Georgia, USA. Their web site also provides news on poker in Georgia, and many other resources.

Mega Poker organises monthly Texas Holdem tournaments in Beverwijk, Netherelands. The site also includes poker rules and other information in Dutch.

Pokerlistings.com provides a list of sites with information on face to face poker tournaments.

The Home Series of Poker site provides a free service by which the organisers of home poker tournaments can record by league and season and create player statistics and rankings.

K9Poker.com provides a directory where you can find local players, home games and face to face tournaments in the USA, and announce your own games and tournaments.

On the City Poker Games site, players can find home poker games listed by city, mostly in the USA. If their city isn't listed, then they can go to "other cities" and search by zip code.

The World Series of Poker 2005 site provides information about this tournament, as well as some historical information about WSOP and a tournament poker strategy guide.

On Line Poker
It is possible to play Poker live with other players over the Internet using the IRC Poker Dealer. Further information about this service can be found on the IRC poker page of the rec.gambling.poker FAQ.

Paradise Poker is a well established online Poker room offering Texas Hold'em, Omaha High, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Card Stud, 7 Stud Hi/Lo and Hold'em Tournaments.

PartyPoker.com, launched in 2001 has been the world's fastest growing online poker site. It offers a variety of games and tournaments, and hosts the annual "PartyPoker.com Million" tournament.

Tiger Gaming provides on line Texas Holdem, 7-Card Stud and Guts games. Also Pan, Chinese Poker and Big Two.

Empire Poker offers a variety of live multi-player poker games. New players receive a 20% bonus on their first deposit. The Empire Poker School offers the opportunity for beginners and advanced players to improve their poker skills through online classes, newsletters and consultation with teachers.

Poker Champs, founded in 2004 by Gus Hansen, pays a percentage of the rake back to players, and operates a pyramid structure, by which players also benefit from the activities of other players they introuduce. Games offered include Texas Hold'em, Omaha and Seven Card Stud. There are daily free roll tournaments with money prizes.

Everest Poker is an on line poker room whose interface is available in 11 languages: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Everest Poker offers the widest selection of satellites to the WSOP, WPT, and EPT main events. With their international focus, they also run satellites to many of the local European tournaments. Since Everest is a growing room, there are fewer players and a better chance to win your buy-in to these events. The Everest Poker School, established in 2005, provides a tutorial and a training room for beginners.

Established in 1999, PokerRoom.com is now the world's third largest online poker room. No download is required and users of Macintosh and Linux computers are welcome.

Bodog offers Online Poker for free or for real money, including multitable, freeroll tournaments and qualifying tournaments for the World Series of Poker and World Poker Tournament.

UltimateBet offers a range of free poker games - not for money - at UltimateBet.net and poker games for money at UltimateBet.com.

Holdem Poker is an online poker room that encourages players to develop their skills at Texas Holdem and Omaha by offering "micro-limit" tables to ease the transition into real money play.

At Bamba Poker you can play a wide selection of Poker games for Euros: Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Ohama Hi-Lo, Soko (5-card stud with 4-flushes and 4-straights), 7-Card-Stud, 7-Card-Stud Hi-Lo, 5-Card-Draw and Deuce to Seven Triple-Draw. Most players are from Scandinavia but players from all over the world can take part. The interface is available in English, Danish and Swedish, and soon in Italian, Russian, German and Finnish as well. There is a progressive Bad Beat Jackpot that is often larger than EUR 5,000, and a VIP point shop where you can buy books, Ipods, casino trips, etc. for VIP points.

Mobile Poker Now offers online poker against live opponents using a mobile phone, using software from Mobile Gaming Now. Currently only play for fun is supported, but the platform has the potential to allow money play in future.

eCardroom provides online Texas Holdem, Omaha and 7 Card Stud for Chinese speakers with a fully Chinese playing interface. From this site it is also possible to download poker games to your mobile phone.

Euro Poker has interfaces in English, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish, enabling players from many countires to play Texas Holdem or Omaha together, at any time of day or night.

Celeb Poker offers the opportunity to play online poker and chat with celebrities from around the world.

Royal Vegas Poker is an online poker room hosted by Lou Krieger, joint author of Poker for Dummies. It is also the platform at which the College Poker Championship is played.

At poker.com you can play for fun or real money. Instant payouts using Neteller; $5000 guaranteed in daily freeroll tournaments.

Caribbean Sun Poker offers Free Roll tournaments, a "Bad Beat Jackpot" and a "Royal Flush Jackpot".

Revolutionary Poker is an online poker room that pledges to donate a proportion of its profits to charity.

Stacks Poker is a new poker room, due to launch in late 2005. In addition to a normal 2D interface they offer an animated 3D interface showing the players as avatars seated around the poker table.

Doyles Room is managed by Doyle "Texas Dolly" Brunson (World Champion of Poker 1976 and 1977) together with Mike Caro. Games offered include Texas Holdem, Omaha and Badugi (four-card three-draw low poker).

9 Poker is a member of the 9am.com casino and sportsbook network, offering Texas Holdem and & Card Stud online.

At Hollywood Poker you can play on-line poker with Hollywood celebrities.

The poker room BugsysClub also provides tuition through the associated PokerSchool online site and articles and tournament results through Poker Pages.

Triple Jack Poker is an online poker room that claims to be safe for the whole family. The game is Texas Hold'em for play money only, with animated cartoon players, side bets, and the opportunity to throw tomatoes and pies at your opponents.

Planet Poker offers an on-line game of Texas Hold'em at set stakes.

igotpoker.com offers Texas Holdem, 7 Card Stud, Omaha and Badugi and claims to pay particular attention to ensuring security and preventing collusion between players.

Get Minted Poker, run by the Cashcade group based in Alderney, Channel Islands, offers a UK-oriented on line poker room, using Pounds Sterling as the currency.

The Poker Pulse site offers live statistics of the numbers of people playing in various on-line poker sites.

Pokerlistings.com provides reviews of numerous on line poker rooms.

The site Le Poker en Ligne offers a French language guide to on-line poker rooms.

The USA Poker Portal site offers free online multiplayer poker and blackjack games for fun. These can be customised and branded to run as part of your own web site.

MJ's Party Poker Playing Guide offers information and help for players who use the Party Poker online poker room.

The World Poker League is an association online poker players. For a modest annual subscription, members play in a series of prize tournaments and are given rankings according to their degree of success. Sign up using promotional code 269 for a chance to win a free membership.

The Poker Works site provides online poker room reviews, a tournament calendar, and strategy articles. It features a blog kept by Linda R.Geenen, a professional dealer at the Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas.

The Online Poker Tourneys site provides a listing of regular tournaments at various online poker rooms, searchable by date and time, type of game and buy-in amount.

The Poker Ranking site provides useful reviews, details and ratings of a wide range of poker rooms, as well as poker rules, tips and links.

The Holdem Bonus site provides information and reviews of a wide range of online poker rooms.

The Unknown Poker site specialises in reviewing smaller and less well-known online poker rooms.

Rated Poker Sites has detailed reviews of the major online poker rooms, and provides a good introduction to online poker games and betting and tournament structures.

The Which Poker site has live statistics on the number of players in each of a range of on line poker rooms, plus a searchable database of upcoming online tournaments.

The Poker Yap site has up to date listings of online freeroll tournaments, online tournaments with a prize fund of at least $5000 and new player bonuses offered by various online poker rooms.

Net Poker, from NetIntellGames, allows you to play against a computer opponent or with a human opponent over the Internet, LAN, modem or direct connection.

The following sites also offer on-line poker games:

Full Tilt Poker - downloadable versions now available for both Mac and PC.
Fair Poker
Noble Poker and Titan Poker belong to the PlayTech 'iPoker network', and provide interfaces in English, French, German, and Italian
Pacific Poker belongs to the large and well established 888.com casino group.
Vegas Lounge Poker
Check n Raise Poker
Absolute Poker
Littlewoods BetDirect Poker
Poker Host
Purple Lounge
PokerWorld Online Cardroom
The Power Network, which includes Poker Island and The Poker Club
Casual Poker
Poker by the Beach operated by Island Poker (Europe)
Jazz Poker Room
Club Games
Gaming Club Poker
Imperial Poker
Pokerjoint.com for Texas Hold'em, Seven Card Stud and Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or better
Alamo Poker
Nabisco Games (Texas Holdem for points)
True Poker
PlayPoker-Now
Play Holdem Texas
Poker Games
InterPoker
Game Desire
The InGame site (Italian)
Yahoo! Games
Play Real Poker Online (htchain.com)
Poker Software
Software that provides assistance while playing online.
The Paragon Poker Pal from Buzzworkz keeps track of cards, bets, calls and raises during an online poker game and calculates winning probabilities and pot odds on the fly. It works automatically with over 100 different online Poker rooms and supports Texas Hold'em, Omaha (including hi/lo) and 7 Card Stud (including hi/lo). It will also calculate odds for card combinations you enter yourself.

Released in 2005, Poker Sherlock, from the makers of Poker Pal (above), keeps track of your opponents' playing habits as you play online. Using information stored in a central database, it presents a range of up to date statistics in chart form.

The Royal Flush Club's Poker Sidekick is a Texas Holdem Poker expert system that teaches how to win at Texas Holdem poker by monitoring your online play (at Poker Stars, Party Poker, etc.), and guiding you through how best to play each hand. Includes the relative strength of starting hands, statistical odds of hands, yours and opponents potential hands and probabilities, recommendations on how to bet and play to win the most. Full version or one year trial subscription available.

Texas Calculatem is a program that watches you play poker online, reading the hands and position automatically, and offers instant odds and advice throughout the game. Works automatically with over 50 online poker rooms.

Pokulator is a poker odds calculator. In single hand mode it calculates your chances of winning based on your hand and the number of players; the Pro version automatically detects cards and tracks odds while you play on line. It is free but displays advertisements between hands.

BritePoker offers a free Poker Odds Calculator which displays drawing odds, pot odds and expected hand value while you play poker online. It can also track opponents' behaviour in certain poker rooms.

Performance Tracking Software
The following software allows you to record various aspects of your poker performance, to track your winnings and analyse various features of the sessions you have played.

The Edge Poker Software allows you to develop your Hold'Em strategy by tracking preflop poker stats and betting tendencies of your Hold'Em opponents.

The Check Your Bets site provides a facility for players to track their performance, recording and analysing details of time, place and results of each session they play.

PokerLedger is a free online poker recording tool with which players can track their earnings over time, write comments on each session, and find out how much they make per hour on average.