By Alexis Russell

10/03/2008

                As some poker rooms falter from competition and scandal others rise from the ashes.  Cool Hand Poker launched just weeks ago and have opened their doors to US players despite questions to the legality of online poker in the country.  Cool Hand Poker is part of the mega poker network, the Microgaming Poker Network.

                Cool Hand Poker understands there is serious competition out there over online players and that they have to set themselves apart.  As such they are touting their site to be a poker room for the smaller players.  A part of Belle Rock Entertainment, Cool Hand Poker is stating that their poker room will the more novice players from being taken by the pro poker players that rake it in online. 

                Just how are they going to do this?  Well first off they’ll be directing their marketing toward the more recreational players that aren’t in it just to generate income.  But the main device that Cool Hand Poker has implemented is to dissuade the bigger online poker players by keeping their stakes low.  They have intentionally capped their highest stakes at $5/$10 for No Limit ring games, $10/$20 for Pot Limit and $15/$30 in Fixed Limit.

                To also instill the idea that Cool Hand Poker is more for the poker players that are looking to improve their, not the ones that are already taking control of online tables, is by offering an extensive poker school.  The Cool Hand Poker poker school has been built out to cover all of the basics to playing the various games and how to handle tournament play.

                As an additional safe guard for Cool Hand Poker players against the top players they won’t be holding tournaments that are open to other players.  Unlike other poker rooms in the MicroGaming Poker Network, players from the other sites under the network won’t be able to join the Cool Hand Poker tournaments that are strictly for their members.