Let’s face it, we could read poker forums all day. There are so many of them now, but some are definitely better than others. All of the forums listed in this article are active and have high quality posts and advice. Our recommendation for poker improvement would be to join one or two of these forums and become an active member. You will gain much more as an active poster than as a constant lurker.
Featured poker communities
The original 2018 selections and descriptions, in their published order.
Two Plus Two Forums
The granddaddy of them all, the best forums on the Internet, by far the most active and most authoritative of online poker forums.
Advanced Poker Training
Advanced Poker Training has recently added a fabulous forum where community members discuss poker strategy and talk about play. These forums also host strategy videos by Steamin’ Steve Stokely and by WSOP Main Event Champion Scott Blumstein. These videos are very popular and often serve as jumping off points for community discussions. (The APT forum closed to new posts in November 2021; its archive remains online.)
PocketFives
Another extremely active, outstanding poker forum. Pocket Fives is also home to the Pocket Five rankings of online poker players, a very popular feature.
CardPlayer Forums
The forums for one of the largest poker print magazines. Very active forums.
PokerStrategy.com Forums
The forums at a good strategy site, filled with tons of players looking for and giving advice.
Poker Atlas Forum
Unlike most of the other forums on this list, this one focuses on where to play rather than how.
Reddit/r/poker
This forum is extremely active and wide ranging. With threads on strategy, hand analysis, home games, and Lon McEachern, you can find pretty much anything here that you’d like to discuss about poker.
Liquid Poker Forums
Another very active forum, backed by a website with a substantial amount of poker content.
CardsChat Forums
Active forum with over 100,000 members and 2 million posts. Worth getting involved in.
Full Contact Poker Forums
This is Daniel Negreanu’s site, and it is fantastic. Plenty of information to be had by interested players.
This list is by no means comprehensive, and there are some really good forums left out of this list. But you could spend you life reading forums, and there are plenty of other ways to spend your poker training time!
The forum links above are the historical destinations decoded from the original WordPress article's redirects. Some may no longer be active.