Legal poker web sites for no money?

[aic]

Is there any legal web site where several players can play poker on line without cost and betting? I do not have aol but they may have some kind of game room. Thanks.

 

[keeleysam]

Yahoo Games.

 

[Bucks]

Pretty much all of the major online Poker sites (Party Poker, FullTiltPoker, Bodog, PokerStars, etc.) have play money games.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

If you're in the US, poker is legal on any site you want as long as there's no money involved (even if the site does have real money games)

 

[dartworth]

what would make them illegal?

 

[duragezic]

I like Pokerroom.com

 

[pcnerd37]

TruePoker is probably my favorite.

 

[imported_LoKe]

PartyPoker, PowerStars. They're applications, but whatever.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Play money is stupid in partypoker, bodog, pacific, whatever. People do the dumbest things like push all in with 3-8 because you can just hit the "get more money" button later on.

Edit: I like how Bodog lets you play 10-player SnGs with play money, and you can only get $1000 play money at once. If you move up to $5000, you can play at a better table with the more pro play money people who are probably more serious. Either way, SnG is better because you can watch the idiots do stupid things, and possibly cash in on that. However, if you're dealing with some lucky mofo who's eliminating idiots who are pushing all in with 3-8, then that will suck.

Bottom line, go for money. Yahoo games is pathetic. When you play limit with $2 big blinds and you have $1000, that's kinda jacked. People will just keep raising because obviously a $32 pot is chump change.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: dartworth
what would make them illegal?

Internet gambling is illegal in the US; this is why all the big poker sites are based outside the US. There's nothing illegal about poker in and of itself though, so you can play with play money all you want.

As an aside, I'm not certain of the legality of playing Internet poker from the US to an international site. I think it is a grey area in the law, but since I'm not American I've never looked into it more than that.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle

Originally posted by: dartworth
what would make them illegal?

Internet gambling is illegal in the US; this is why all the big poker sites are based outside the US. There's nothing illegal about poker in and of itself though, so you can play with play money all you want.

As an aside, I'm not certain of the legality of playing Internet poker from the US to an international site. I think it is a grey area in the law, but since I'm not American I've never looked into it more than that.

There is an Online Gambling Bill that passed the House but has been stoped in the Senate. It's suppose to be make Illegal for U.S. transfers of money to offshore Gambling companies.