Free Poker Online Games List Reveals The Best Free Online Poker Tools

There are some truly excellent free online poker, tools, forums and software resources out there, some you may have experienced, some not, all can be put under the category of the best online poker tools.

Rec.gambling.poker and 2+2 forum are two online poker tools that are very well known in the wide online poker community. By community of poker players I mean everyone from beginner to full time income pro player. The poker tools on offer cover all variations of the game from home; online; irc or even at the real casinos.

Since these sites are forums you can also ask questions and get, at times, useful advice for free though keep in mind that such advice is often an opinion so take with some salt!

To find them both go to Google and put the site names in and they'll both appear immediately.

Pokenum, is a free poker hand analyzer that is excellent for determining the win percent of your opponents hands against yours. And they have a really nice feature where you can add cards to the table to see how they affect hand strength in relation to other hands.

This process goes on as the board progresses, a very handy tool for understanding the dynamic of card to hand and table strength relativity. It is also open source so if you have the skills you can develop your own uses for it or find it ready to use on various poker and games sites.

Next, one you may not have heard of, the university of Albertas poker research group.

Among other things they offer the Open Poker Variance Analysis Tool (PVAT) tools which, if you are into c-programming, use to develop your poker simulation, not for most of us cool if this is your thing. They also have lots of research and ideas all of which makes it a great place for the academic poker player to check out.

Another online poker tool that is highly recommended is chessandpokerdotcom. The site has provides detailed strategy guides for allsorts of games such as Chess and the many flavors of Poker and there is a wonderful limit strategy guide for holdem. Perfect for beginners and intermediates.

Or how about the original home of online poker, IRC poker?

IRC poker was a form of poker played over the IRC chat protocol before the surge in popularity of online poker in the early 2000's. World Series of Poker champion Chris Ferguson got his start playing IRC poker.

It is still going, type IRC poker into Google and check it out. Resist the urge to click the back button and read the FAQs to figure the place out, once you learn it you can play in the IRC real time free online poker games network against some really serious and good online poker players.

Pokernews.com has a forum section where you can ask any poker questions. There are plenty of skilled poker online players both questioning and answering queries there and plenty of answers come from pro poker online players so you can be sure you're benefiting from real helpful advice.

Not forgetting of course free online poker game sites such as NoPayPOKER where you can ask poker questions in the lobby on better poker tactics.

Plus the NoPay blog has a big free poker training library with training lessons for beginner upwards. So, off you go and enjoy all the free online poker tools games, free tips and advice.