Let's start with the BIG BOYS - Site name and (software):
Poker Stars (PokerStars)
Full Tilt Poker (Full Tilt Poker)
Ultimate Bet / Absolute Poker (Cereus Network)
Bo Dog Poker (Bodog Poker)
Cake Poker / Doyle's Poker Room / Sportsbook Poker (Cake Poker Network)
One thing that becomes apparent is that all sites still open to US players, run their own software. Although Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker are the only sites open to US players that run a skin of a basic software that shares players.
Doyle's Room left the Prima Poker network to join Cake Poker as it was not allowing US players. Cake Poker is fundable thru eWallet.
If you remember a site called "The Poker Room", which is now closed to US players, it is the skin of at least 30 sites, all with different names, but the same player base.
You may have seen adds for Carbon Poker (Poker dot com originally). It is the main site but a skin of about ten other sites.
CD Poker and Titan Poker (closed to US players) were two sites that were skins of each other, but have 'franchised out' into about ten skin sites too.
Poker Host (closed to Michigan players) also sells it's skin to about ten other sites.
Party Poker (closed to US players) is also the skin of dozens of sites.
Stay with the BIG BOYS listed above and you should be fine. Not from the horrendous bad beats and player collusion, but from the site closing and taking your money.
Speaking of which, has happened to Faldo a few times. Jet Poker and Tropical Poker (both running their own software, by the way) just up and closed - taking player deposits with them.
Pokertropolis and Bugsy’s Club closed, but returned all player funds first! Very classy, as were the sites - which I miss. Their software was good (as was Tropical Poker's). I wonder if you can find the software somewhere to buy on the cheap? We could play NPP Tuesdays on the NPP site!
I would like to close this article with a list of poker site names that I think are lame. Some are easy to tell how they were marketing their site to get players to them. Some defy logic. Some are still open and some are closed. Take a gander:
32Red Poker
Adult Poker Party
Bamba Poker
Bikini Poker
Blue Lizard Poker
Bombshell Poker
Celeb Poker
Cheribino Poker
Cindy's (Margolis) Poker
Green Tie Poker
Jazz Poker
Naked Poker
Pamela (Anderson) Poker
Piggs Peak Poker
Playboy Poker
Victoria (Principle) Poker
Virgin Poker
Vulcan Poker
Wingwow Poker
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Hey Nik!! Pretty sure Doyles is on Cake now and is open to Michigan players again.
You are correct Sirgash. That is why I keep you on the payroll and am dropping that dead weight known as 4Putt.
I will update my article. Thanks.
4Putt is as useless as....
tits on a Bull.
an evening gown on a pig.
a golf tee in the ocean.
a straight against a full house on 4th street.
matches in a forest fire.
his own golf clubs.
I know I am leaving some out.
4putt is as useless as......
a penis on 4putt
a vagina on his wife
bh
4Putt is as useless as a hot water tank in his house.
4Putt, let me know if you need me to "lay the pipe" when you're at work, I'll get're done for ya...
bigbrimar
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