# Where is the best place to play online poker?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-best-place-to-play-online-poker/621671>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 12, 2012, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-best-place-to-play-online-poker/621671 "2012-05-12T05:32:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![2sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e47774/32.png) [@2sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2sense)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2012, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-best-place-to-play-online-poker/621671/1 "2012-05-12T05:32:59Z")

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I am looking for a website that provides fun and reliable play money Texas Hold’em (No Limit). I just uninstalled Party Poker because it wasn’t accounting for my winnings properly (in the last week it has swallowed more than three quarters of my bankroll) and because the damn program kept updating every single day. Annoying. What I’m looking for is a site with decent monitoring to prevent morons from acquiring a huge bankroll they didn’t earn somehow and throwing it around going all in constantly. I’d like to play games with people for whom maintaining their stack is something of a priority. What would be great would be a site with limited access games so when the morons get cleaned out they can’t just rebuy and continue pushing money around.

So can anyone suggest something decent? Miscellaneous online poker conversation is also encouraged.

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**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2012, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-best-place-to-play-online-poker/621671/2 "2012-05-12T05:56:20Z")

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Sounds like you’re asking an awful lot for play money games.

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**Author:** ![2sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e47774/32.png) [@2sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2sense)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2012, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-best-place-to-play-online-poker/621671/3 "2012-05-12T07:16:27Z")

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One can dream. As long as it’s reliable it’s an improvement over what I was using.

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**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-best-place-to-play-online-poker/621671/4 "2012-05-13T01:13:07Z")

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You can join us on Thursday night in the [SDMB poker league.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=647236) Its fun and competitive.

Follow the instructions. Send **MentalGuy** and IM to be approved into his private club.

We have anywhere from 10-16 players on Thursday night at 10 pm eastern time.

Nothing on the line except pride and ego.

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**Author:** ![2sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e47774/32.png) [@2sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2sense)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-best-place-to-play-online-poker/621671/5 "2012-05-13T04:51:44Z")

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I can’t make that time. I did download Poker Stars to give it a try.