Online poker sites have cultivated in massive popularity within the last 10 years, through the poker boom and beyond. When Chris Moneymaker won the World Group of Poker in 2003, there was an enormous influx of new players or «fishes» entering the poker world — what better place to get more hands in and stay anonymous than the internet. Indeed, the extra volume of hands allowed in online play allowed some of these so called fish to be the top money earners in the sport. Let's take a look at different types of poker games you can play at a significant poker room online.

— Texas Holdem — The most popular of kinds of poker, all the sites have Texas hold em and of course it's no-limit counterpart

— Omaha — A game played with 4 cards each and soaring in popularity

— 7 Card Stud — A classic game, offered by most online poker rooms to this day.

— 5 card draw — This old time cafeteria classic, 5-card draw is available at the very least amount of poker sites.

— Ring games — These are otherwise known as cash games, and consist of you playing against other players for actual money. Dozens of different stakes can be found at any given online poker site.

— MTT — These are known as multi-table tournaments and have hundreds or 1000s of players in the same tournament. You have to buy in the tournament, and everyone's cash is all pooled into one and prizes are distributed to the top finishers.

— SNG — Sit and go tournaments are mini tourneys which do not last very long. Often they will have 9 or 10 players, though there are 2 table and 3 dining table SNG's available which have 18 and 27 players respectively.

— Satellites — They're parlays where you are able to start small and end up huge. Ostensibly you will enter a poker tournament in hopes of not winning money, but a ticket to a more substantial tournament. Additionally, there are online to live satellites where you play for prize packages to live tourneys.

There are indeed additional forms of tournaments and types of poker offered at various Judi online poker sites around the net. The ones listed above, nevertheless, are indeed an indication of the very common games and tables you will see as you venture in to the amazing world of on-line poker.