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Some time ago I wrote that there are no too much useful poker applications in Facebook. I did not change the opinion in half a year after this Poker 2.0 Blog post. However, if we look at this problem from another angle, the situation wouldn\’t look so tragic.

What Facebook can give for beginning poker players or those who want to learn play poker?

In some of my articles I recommended beginners to start playing in Facebook for free, learn something about online poker action and only then go to biggest poker rooms, deposit and be welcomed like regular fish players. Playing a while in Facebook and learning something could save someone\’s money.

I have started investigating Facebook poker applications which are best for learning. Here is the list of TOP 5:

1. Zynga\’s Texas Holdem – the biggest online poker room in the world with 4,1 million of players daily (PokerStars has 300,000 at the peak times only).
2. Poker Palace  – second biggest poker room in Facebook with 160,000 daily players.
3. Poker Texas Holdem from GameDesire  – one more nice poker room to play with your friends. It is available in 20 different languages, so people who do not know English very well can definitely learn in their own language.
4. All In Poker Odds Calculator is a simple odds calculator which can help counting your chances with particular hands. Can be used in new window while playing poker in Facebook or everywhere else.
5. Test Your Poker Math is one of few poker quizzes. There are lots of them and each one helps people to learn something.

Unfortunately, some of applications are not working at all or works incorrectly. One of them – Flash tutorial explaining poker hand rankings. It is pity that creators of these applications left them neglected. They can be useful to thousands of beginner poker players.

Most of the information about poker on the internet is corrupt. The majority of  the poker websites only advertise the same Pokerstars and FullTilt bonuses, but do not actually care about the beginning players. Just try and search Google for a few simple poker keywords (for example \”poker blogs\” or \”poker social network\”) and you will get a bunch of useless out of date, not working or not supported websites. Quality websites are usually at the bottom of the list, so finding useful poker information is not that easy.

If you are looking for quality poker resources, you\’d better consult your friends and colleagues about the trustworthy online destinations, because:

• You cannot trust Social bookmarking sites like Digg, StubmleUpon, Delicious, as they have only few actually useful links
• You cannot trust Twitter, because people will throw their referral codes and affiliate links at you instead of providing real explanations
• You cannot trust Yahoo! Answers which are full of spammers (Answers.com is not the case as it is owned by Wikipedia)
• You cannot trust Facebook, because all the pages and groups are created only to advertise some particular websites and not to discuss the poker issues
• You cannot trust link directories – all the links there are purchased
• You cannot trust free press release directories as they advertise the products rather than announce actually important news and business information.

So what resources can you trust then? Are there any websites that provide quality and trustworthy information? The answer is YES. These are poker magazine and media sites, such as Cardplayer, Bluff, PokerNews, Pokerlistings, PokerPages, Pagat etc. which have already been in the market for 5 or even more years and have proved their authority over the time. Some communities and social networks such as 2+2, Cardschat, Pocketfives, PokerDIY, FullContactPoker etc. are also trustworthy poker information resources and if you\’re looking for some answers in poker the people there will help you and will let you know whether your source is reliable or not. If you really want to know the latest poker business issues, is is always good to consult the independent media like CNN, SKY, BBC, NewYork Times – they are very selective about the poker news, so the garbage will simply not go through.

Poker social networks are also the place for trustworthy information, however there are some that should not be trusted as well, so it is advised only to choose the biggest ones. The information must be selected really carefully; otherwise you will end up learning poker from the sources which are fake and made only with the purpose of advertising some products and brands.

I bet you would ask me what are these trustworthy social networks then? Poker 2.0 is still under the investigation. So far I can only recommend Railbirds and PokerDIY. These have already been in the market for some time and there are live reliable people behind them. Pokernations looks promising, but it is still a new product and does not have many members who would produce quality content and would be able to determine whether the website is spam or not. We will have the opportunity to observe their development process in the nearest future.

Social media now became a part of our lives. Every day we communicate with our friends and relatives in Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn and hundreds of other social networks. Some of them are global, some of them are operating only for our native language or country. Also there are lots of social networks uniting people by interest. For example – pet lovers, computer geeks, programmers, designers, mothers, drivers etc. Poker is one of interests and deserves the social media designed for this interest.

There are a few only poker social networks, however there are lots of features for poker players in global social networks. Did you know, that Texas Holdem game is one of the most popular in Facebook? Poker palace is widely played in MySpace. Lots of poker celebrities tweet from under the table during various big tournaments. Lots of people are interested in these tools and issues, therefore Poker 2.0 Blog writes about them.

Here I will provide some short information about it. Keep Tuned!