Online Poker:
Online Poker is the Poker game played over the internet. Back in the year 2005, revenues from online poker were estimated to be USD $200 million per month and there was a drastic increase recorded in the number of poker players around the globe.

An overview:
An online poker game as compared to the land based poker game is economical. The reason for this difference is that online poker has lesser charges per head.

Online Poker games are considered more user friendly than a normal land based Poker.

However, besides the positive factors of online poker there are certain disadvantageous points as well. One simple example is that at times online poker players face a lot of player to player collusion.

Nevertheless, online poker has attained a lot of popularity in a very short span of time.

Some of the big names of this industry are given below:

www.titanpoker.com
Titan poker is the largest online poker website. The system requirements to download this software are:

- Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP
- Minimum screen resolution of at least 800 by 600 pixels with 16-bit
- 30 mb of free disk space

Titan Poker assures to offer you certain features that are not available on any other poker website such as: full screen option, buddy list, player notes, titan poker points, real time transaction history, live support and real time game history.

Pokerstars.com:
Pokerstars.com is the second largest online poker website but the largest poker tournament arranger in the world. It was launched in September 2001. The owner of Pokerstars.com is a Costa Rican company, Rational Enterprises.

Pokerstars is somehow different from other casinos poker games. Pokerstars also offer top notch softwares and services. It offers multi player tournaments. Moreover, there is no limit and restriction on playing the side games.

Today, online poker is one of the most popular online casino games. Once it was thought that this game could never be played over the net, maybe this is the reason that it boomed incredibly.