Poker - Texas Holdem

Poker popularity have boomed recently, specifically with the advent of online poker in recent years. Texas Holdem is the game of choice at the moment

There are now many great online sites where you can play a variety of poker games with different amounts. Tutorials to learn the basics for beginners can be found in the links below. This should be your first step if you wish to start playing this game. Secondly get online and play with 'play' money. A quick google will give you many sites to play at. To begin with you wont even need to download any software you can play via your browser. After getting an idea of how things work your next step is to download 'proper' poker software, everyone has their favourite, so take a look around and see what you like (Majority of site also offer bonuses to choose their software, so consider this as well (as well as the T&C's of course!)).

Playing with money (your money) is significantly different (obviously!) . So you would be best to play on the smallest limit tables or chossing tournaments that are free or again a very small 'buy in'. From then on increase your levels as your poker improves and hopefully your bank balance.

Wikipedia - A very good introduction and further information for poker players can be found here.

Pokersavvy - Another good place to help improve your game. Some very good tutorials, from basics to some more advanced tournament strategies.

PokerPower - Beginners guide to Texas Holdem and a signup bonus comparision list of the top poker sites  - Poker subsite to Betinfo.

Onlinepokerhelp - Another site worth a look

Poker-strategy.org - And another

PokerStove - This is an excellent free poker calculator that shows odds on a variety of scenarios you can set. Very useful educational tool.