Online poker is a complex subject. The legality of playing, the online poker sites available to play at, and many other facets of the game are affected by geography. For American players, experts at ProfessionalRakeback.com have researched online poker at a granular level and created these guides for each of the 50 states.
Choose a state below to learn everything you need to know about how and where to play poker online from within your state of residence.
Rakeback Deals
ProfessionalRakeback.com offers a variety of rakeback deals to our readers. Below you will find our top three rakeback deals. However, for more information on what rakeback is, why it might be helpful to you, and for access to our full list of rakeback sites to play on, you need to visit our comprehensive poker Rakeback guide.
ACR POKER
- BONUS:
- 100% up to $2,000
- ★★★★★
- 4.3 / 5
Not only does ACR Poker boast the highest traffic of any US-serving rakeback-offering poker room, but it also has the largest online poker tournaments, including the famous recurring $10 Million VENOM tournament and at least one $250,000 guaranteed tourney each Sunday.
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BLACKCHIP POKER
- BONUS:
- 100% up to $2,000
- ★★★★★
- 4.2 / 5
Black Chip Poker is part of the same Winning Poker Network as ACR Poker, so most of the same advantages and disadvantages of ACR apply to this room too. It's a good idea to sign up for a BCP account if you already have an ACR account that you don't want to use for one reason or another.
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Much of the attention at Winning Poker Network, and rightly so, has been on the announced Million Dollar Sunday Series coming up in September and October. This isn’t the only important tournament series happening though, as the 2nd Freebuy Series has also been announced and it is expected to be even better than last time with a full schedule of great events and a very lucrative Main Event starting in late August!
Bovada underwent a complete redesign on the website end of its offerings, which might sound insignificant, until you realize that the majority of the sports betting traffic is though the website. These changes have been met with a fairly wide range opinions, for numerous reasons. We will give you a review of the changes and what some of those complaints are!
Full Tilt Poker continued to make some major changes to their game offerings and the most recent changes push the site even further towards a “recreational player model.” These changes have been met with mixed opinions thus far, and are sure to cause a lot of debate for the foreseeable future as they fundamentally change how the site conducts business.
888 Holdings has swept in at the last second and completed a deal to acquire Bwin.Party, denying Amaya Group the ability to continue to grow their monopoly. The new company formed by this merger will put it as the third largest gambling company in the world behind only Amaya and Bet365.
Full Flush Poker is getting ready to offer their first tournament series, the Summer Online Poker Series (SOPS,) and it couldn’t have come at a better time as the new software Full Flush Poker is excited about has been released to the public. The series will take place over the course of the next two weeks and have $150,000 in guaranteed prizes!
Late last week some news broke that Amaya Gaming was very close to acquiring Bwin.Party, as an official bid was made after months of negotiations. The ramifications from an acquisition like this are important, but without a closer look at the industry it might not be readily apparent why. We will take a look at these reasons and what it means for players like you!