The article describes the online poker industry along provides a review of two of the most liked poker sites on the internet i.e. Poker Stars and Bodog Poker. Site ratings are also given along other stats for these sites.

In the modern world, Poker is not all about gamblers physically sitting alongside and mending their cards. It's not about long hours of game played until one is left with the entire cash in his/her hands. Now because of the World Wide Web the online poker industry has taken a boom.

The online poker industry was started by Mike Caro in 1998. He discovered the online poker site by the name “PlanetPoker.com”. This was the first site that promoted poker on the computer screens. As soon as PlanetPoker.com launched, loads of traffic started to generate. This was the first step towards the rise of online poker. After this more and more online website launched and helped the business to grow. Today the internet is filled with poker lounges. Some work on credit cards and online accounts where as there are sites which offer free poker lounges for online activists. Let us start with a review of online poker sites. We recommend Its Online Poker for reviews of the best poker sites for the year 2009. The site lists the top poker rooms on the internet and covers many areas like support, software quality, graphics, etc.

Poker Stars:
Firstly on our list for review of online poker sites is PokerStars. This is site is known to have the best and the toughest poker tournaments on the internet. This is a first class website where all the big demons of the poker industry come and play. This is the reason that the site is low with traffic. You do not find soft competition over here.

PokerStars offers a number of games to its clients, including Texas Hold'em, Omaha, and Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo. The software of the site is wonderfully designed to operate multi-table tournament lobby with tournament information as well as a strategic time banking option.

Overall the site rating is 8.6 on the review of online poker sites list.

Bodog Poker:
Next on our list for review of online poker sites is a website that has an amazing software equipped with very bad players. Yes, high quality software filled with low quality players is what you find on Bodog Poker. The software of Bodog is fast, simple to use and comprises of good graphics.

On Bodog, you can play poker games such as Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, Seven Card Stud and Five Card Stud. Most players here are found playing ring games. We cannot say that the number of tournaments played here are less. Bodog has WPT and WSOP qualifier tournaments to its name.

Overall the site rating is 8.2 on the review of online poker sites list.