So I've been playing a lot at ultimatebet.com lately. Just joined their affiliate program. OK so I'm now a poker pusher. C'mon the first one's free all the cool people are doing it.

Seriously though, gambling, even for play chips, is a time killer and will, not may but will, eat into your life hard; so be careful. However if you are so inclined, Ultimatebet.com and Fulltiltpoker.com are the places I like to play.

They both have a table like feel to them that gives the player the look of sitting at the table rather than looking down at it.

Full Tilt was the online poker site that I started at and I have a certain affection for it. Full Tilt has the best interface by far. They include lot's of different avitars for the players so it's not quite as dull.

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Full Tilt has an excellent CRM program that includes weekly emails called "tips from the pros" that are short helpful articles about improving your poker game.

When you want to step into a ring game there is always a table open.

Full Tilt also has twice daily freeroll tournies at 1:30 am and pm that actually pay real money should you win or even place. They also have play chip sit and go tournies that enable a player to practice for free. You could sign up for fulltilt and never put down a cent of your own money and wind up playing in the World Series of Poker. Yeah that might happen.

All that said about Full tilt, I've been playing more at UltimateBet.

They have tournies of one sort or another almost hourly. The tournies max out at 2500 players rather than 900 so you have more time to join them. The sit and go tournies have a wait list so that when a spot opens up it take you right to it rather than the player having to wait around and hope to act quick enough to join.

The ring games seem to be tough to join the fill up quick and the software doesn't open up new tables quickly on play chips anyway.

The tournies while plentiful are not for real money. They are for bonus dollars and points which or a chance to play for an entry into a real money tourney.

Full Tilt	Ultimate Bet
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Daily Freerolls that pay real money easy to jump into a game good newsletters Pros are pointed out in red and sometimes play the play chip tables	Plentiful tournies tournies easy to join sit and go tournies have wait list
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play chip tournies hard to get into limited to 900 players and fill up in minutes holdem sit and go tournies fill up to quickly with no wait list	Freeroll tournies do not pay real money ring games are difficult to get into quickly

Essentially if you want to do play chip tournies play ultimate bet, if you want to do ring games play full tilt.