"Best Live Online Poker Site Guide"

Finding the best live online poker site is a time intense task.

With close to 30 poker sites (that I’ve been able to find) to choose from all offering something different picking the best live poker site can make your head spin!

BUT lucky for you all the homework is completed and on hand here. Just decide for yourself!

Each website is scored based on 10 criteria and each criteria gets a 0-10 score. Each website is scored from 0-100 based on how well they score for each criteria.

1. How dedicated is the poker site to poker? Do they offer poker games ONLY or do they have a bunch of casino games too? A score of 10 means the poker site is strictly poker. A score of 0 means they want you to play bank account sucking casino games.

2. Websites reputation. This is simply whether they’re well known or not.

3. Easy to get around. A 10 means you can find anything you look for and a 0 is "who turned out the lights?"

4. Simple to get money ON and OFF site.

5. How secure is the site? Have they had problems in the past? Are the problems fixed?

6. Amount of poker games offered in a range of structures and stakes.

7. Does the site have filtering methods that make finding your perfect game a cinch or do you have to search for hours?

8. Caliber and average amount of players the site attracts.

9. Does the site have bonuses? How good is the bonus?

10. How much money the site GIVES AWAY in freerolls and guarantees.

Best live online poker site (s) are listed from highest score to lowest.

Any "best live online poker site" in blue font accepts U.S. players.

Poker stars Overall score: 86.5

Dedication to poker score: 10

Reputation score: 10

Easy to use score: 10

Secure score: 10

Amount of games, stakes, and structures score: 7

Filters score: 10

Players score: 10 (poker stars has up to 100,000 poker players on their site at any given time)

Bonus score: 1.5

Deposit and withdrawal score: 8

Giveaways score: 10

I guess that answers the "what is the best live online poker site?" question, huh? Knowing how Poker stars rose to the top out of all the others could be use-full.

Here’s how the others stacked up.


Full tilt poker overall score: 76.5

Dedication score: 10

Reputation score: 10

Easy to use score: 10

Secure score: 10

Amount of games, stakes and structures score: 10

Filters score: 10

Players score: 5

Bonus score: 1.5

Deposit and withdrawal score: 2.5

Giveaways score: 7.5

Special note: Full tilt poker has created a new way to play online poker, its called Rush poker and they have a patent on it so it‘s the only place you can play it.

Party poker overall score: 45.4

Dedication score: 0

Reputation score: 1

Easy to use score: 10

Secure score: 10

Amount of games, stakes and structures score: 3

Filters score: 5

Players score: 3.5

Bonus score: 0.4

Deposit and withdrawal: 10

Giveaways score: 2.5

William hill poker overall score: 42.5

Dedication score: 0

Reputation score: 1

Easy to use score: 10

Secure score: 10

Amount of games, stakes and structures score: 2.5

Filters score: 3

Players score: 2

Bonus score: 1.5

Deposit and withdrawal: 10

Giveaways score: 2.5

Hollywood poker overall score: 42

Dedication score: 0

Reputation score: 1

Easy to use score: 10

Secure score: 10

Amount of games, stakes and structures score: 3

Filters score: 5

Players score: 1.5

Bonus score: 1.5

Deposit and withdrawal: 10

Giveaways score: 0

Poker host (Merge gaming network) overall score: 40.7

Dedication score: 0

Reputation score: 0

Easy to use score: 7

Secure score: 10

Amount of games, stakes and structures score: 5

Filters score: 5

Players score: 0.7

Bonus score: 10

Deposit and withdrawal: 2

Giveaways score: 1