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Just about every day of the week in towns dotting Massachusetts and Rhode Island, poker players find their way to local bars to play for money, pride, and a chance at a seat in the World Series of Poker main event.
The four-year-old Eastern Poker Tour (EPT) is elevating the concept of free pub poker to a new level, complete with a stunning online site, real nightly prizes, a points system, and an actual TV tourney event that’s broadcast locally.
Glenn McCrory, co-founder, owner, and president of the EPT, says his company is determined to give both the players and the bars that host the events a league that keeps the regulars coming back by offering substantial prizes and a chance to play for millions in the WSOP.
“We treat this tour like a legitimate mainstream tournament,” McCrory said. “Just because players aren’t paying someone to play, that doesn’t mean we can’t make it work. It’s way above and beyond any bar league in the country.”
Tournaments are scheduled for just about every night of the week in the following areas: Rhode Island, Southern and Central Massachusetts, Worchester Massachusetts, and Greater Lowell Massachusetts.
Players who win any event at any of the locations qualify for the EPTTournament of Champions, which is filmed and broadcast on Comcast Sports New England. Bernard Lee is a commentator, and the second hour-and-a-half show is due to air sometime in March.
The first tournament that was filmed was broadcast in June and earned a Nielsen rating of 1.2 to 1.5, which is exceptionally high for local television.
“We really went through the roof in ratings,” McCrory said.
Speaking of numbers, he said that the EPT website, which tracks players’ wins, ranks them, shows who has qualified for the monthly events, and provides a centralized poker community to the players who frequent EPT events, gets a little more than 1 million hits a month.
“Even at this level, people are proud of their results,” McCrory said, citing the reason they have so many visitors.
And nightly, the Rhode Island bars average 60-80 entrants; Southern Massachusetts, 40-60; Central Massachusetts, 30-50; and Worchester Massachusetts, 20-40.
The EPT pays out at each event by a sliding scale. For example, if 20 players show up at a location, the tournament has a $115 prize pool, with $75 going to the winner. If 60 people show up, there’s a prize pool of $650, with $250 going to the winner. If 100 people show up, there’s an $850 prize pool, with $400 going to the winner, and so on.
The EPT also keeps track of all its players’ stats and holds freerolls for those players who manage to stay at the top of the leader boards in their area. Every season of the EPT last six months, and the top 15 percent of players get to play in a freeroll for $5,000. Each month, the top players in each region play in a 50-entrant freeroll with a $1,200 prize pool.
It’s every six months that the EPT holds its WSOP qualifier, where a prize worth $13,000 is awarded. The next event is coming up Jan. 24. About 250 entrants -- all of the winners of the season’s events -- will get together and find out who’s going to the WSOP on EPT’s dime.
The EPT also holds charity poker tournaments weekly throughout Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
The EPT would like to bring its style of tour to markets outside of the area and are looking into ways of franchising their system. But that’s a little more down the road for the 4-year-old series.
“We’d like to have our tournament times a thousand. If we could get everyone else to be in the same page as us, wanting to give our players more, pub poker could become something substantial,” McCrory said.
To find out more about the EPT, click here.

In addition to providing you with a comprehensive and well reasoned overview of the legal poker landscape as it applies to playing poker in the area or country in which you reside, we also make recommendations as to which poker rooms you should be considering trying out from among those available in your area, if any.

So you want to know first of all whether you can play online poker, and what the law says, and what the practical implications of playing are, and then once you know that you want to know where the best poker rooms to play at are from the selection of what’s available.

So we’ve gone to the trouble to select these for you based upon our vast experience of evaluating and recommending poker rooms which goes all the way back to when online poker first started. This includes the kind of ongoing analysis that really is limited to professionals working within the industry, which we are.

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What we are after here in particular is looking for poker sites that meet a certain threshold of acceptability, and while a lot of poker sites do, some do not.

This is why you don’t see ratings and such in our reviews, and while we will compare certain sites when appropriate, it really always boils down to whether or not it is worth your while to try out a certain site and reap the bonus money offered, not whether one site is better than another.

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This is actually a decision best left up to you the player once you’ve had a chance to try out the various poker rooms worth trying out. We will provide our expert opinion on them for you though but ultimately it is you that will end up choosing which one or ones you like best.

It’s also beneficial to have accounts at several poker sites if that’s an option where you live, meaning there ends up being more than one that you like, longer term, after you’ve tried out the potential candidates and you have collected all the bonus money you seek to collect.

So this is why we hesitate to just tell people, this is where you need to play, and the best we can do here is just point you in the right directions, but that’s something we are happy to do for you on this site.

So while there are links to our approved rooms on the pages discussing the laws of each area we cover, since you are here now, we’ll recap the sites and the reviews that we have here for you so you can get a taste of what’s out there in your area.

Regulated Online Poker Rooms in the United States

There are two forms of poker that is offered to U.S. residents, regulated poker rooms and non regulated ones. We’ll deal with the regulated ones first.

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In New Jersey, there are three regulated and state sanctioned poker networks that offer play to state residents.

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PartyPoker New Jersey is a partnership between the Borgata and Party Poker and each has their own site with their own unique offers, although both run on the same network and the games and tables are therefore identical.

Party Borgata is the top dog as far as traffic and popularity goes in New Jersey, and while it would be easy to just say well this is where you should be playing, traffic isn’t the only consideration of course and in our reviews we present you with everything you need to know as far as deciding whether you want to at least try out this poker network or any poker room for that matter. You can read our review of this network here.

In second place, traffic wise anyway, is WSOP New Jersey. While we feel that everyone in New Jersey should try out Party Borgata, this site is worth a look as well. It’s not even which one you decide is better, it may also be a matter of wanting or needing an account at both sites, or perhaps even at all three. Read our review of WSOP New Jersey here.

You may also want to check out the third place poker room in the state, at 888 Poker New Jersey(<< review). At the very least you can collect some extra bonus money from trying out this poker site as well, and we know that our readers like collecting bonus money, or at least they should.

Delaware also has regulated poker, but we have not bothered with a review for their poker room because we feel that the traffic isn’t anywhere near where it needs to be in order to make this poker room worth considering for anyone. This could change though once they get the interstate deal with Nevada going.

Speaking of Nevada, the state is now down to a single poker room worth bothering about, which is WSOP Nevada. There had been a second poker room to choose from up until recently, but they ended up folding due to not making enough money from the deal and now we’re down to one poker room left standing.

It’s a good one indeed though and players shouldn’t be troubled at all that they don’t have any choice here anymore. You can check out our review of WSOP Nevada here.

[Offshore] U.S. Friendly Poker Sites

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There are several offshore poker rooms offering play to Americans living in select states.

Players from the regulated states have to stick to the regulated rooms, and some states don’t have any poker rooms that offer play to residents of their states, and there are some others where we haven’t been able to come up with a choice we are comfortable with so we haven’t recommended any for you, but we do have recommendations for just about every state nonetheless.

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Once again, you have to visit the page for your state covering the poker laws there to ensure that one of our recommendations are indeed available to you, but the two that we like are BetOnline (<< review) and America’s Cardroom(<< review).

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Both are very good poker sites and there are plenty out there which we do not feel to be up to par but these two are not among them. Both offer generous bonuses to try them out and if you are in a state where both poker rooms are available to you we encourage you to try out both if you wish.