She Plays Poker

A must-have. Shut up and buy it. www.pokertracker.com

If you multi-table you've got to have PokerAce Heads-up Display. If you don't, you've got to have PokerAce Heads-up Display. The best heads-up display around, though there are some incompatible sites. Pacific Poker is still in beta testing, and uses way too many system resources, while GameTime+ is free (see below). Buy it anyway.

Another must-have for serious players. Very, very useful for understanding what VPIP (voluntarily put money in pot) and PFR (pre-flop raise) percentages and ranges really mean, as well as its main focus, running pot-equity calculations based on your opponent's probable holdings.

Do you like pretty graphs? Get PokerGrapher.

Do you want more pretty patterns? Get PokerPatterns.

Not as neat as PA HUD (above) but GameTime+ (link via the PokerTracker homepage) is useful to have, particularly on a low-spec computer.

Handgrabber does a lot of iffy things so you can get instant hand histories out of Pacific Poker and run PT/GameTime+. Use it.

Simulation software, supposed to be the best poker articial intelligence around, but it never feels like a REAL poker game. Still, useful to mess around with before playing sit-n-go's and for practice before making a transition from limit to no-limit or back again. PartyPoker now have an online version available for free, but if you want to buy (or get a trial) then www.poker-academy.com

FTR seem to have the standard hand converter. Don't think much of their forums, though new players may like the stickie introduction posts.

RakeTheRake are nice people who want to give you your money back. Please mention me.

Change the record, please. No. Rakeback is important and you have to have it. Get it at ThisIsTheNuts. Sign-up with code 1188. Please.

Did I mention rakeback yet? Find out more at www.rakerebatereview.com, it's as impartial as an advertiser-driven site can be, with strict rules about kicking off and de-listing cowboy affiliates.

Home of Sklansky, Malmuth and Miller. An hour a day is not enough here.

For occasionally world-class writing and always entertaining blogging check out the home of Dr Pauly at http://taopoker.blogspot.com/

Henry and the improbably named Zog take turns playing PokerRoom multi-table tournaments and podcasting their play. A fun set-up, worth more than the occasional listen. The homepage is here.

This is the guy who wrote Poker Stove so he knows what he's talking about. Doesn't update very often, but always worth reading. http://headsupclub.com/aprock/

S'pose it's worth a look. About all the coverage our game gets from the UK papers is this from The Times.

Pokernews.com for, well, poker news. They're good on multi-table tournaments and some of the big issue-stuff.

Gambling stuff. Plus the huggable one works for them.

An occasional item from the home of hip writing. Makes me feel old already.www.mcsweeneys.net/links/poker