Poker is fantastic! It's a game of incredible skill and psychology and not luck and pure gambling as it's often perceived to be. As with all the best games and sports, it is extremely easy to learn how to play but takes a lifetime to master.

Poker is an ancient game of uncertain origins, but one thing is for sure - it's going to be around for a while making some people vast amounts of money. Hopefully with the information in this course you will become one of them.

Let's get one thing straight from the start, you don't need to be a great poker player to run a great poker website. All you have to do is provide great poker information and make your site a valuable resource for visitors so that they will keep coming back.

Think about it - would you only visit a football site if it was run by a great football player? Or would you only be interested in visiting a movie site if it was run by a famous actor or actress? Of course not, other people run them - the stars are too busy and too rich to be running websites.

But...

The level of your poker experience will determine what kind of site you can run.

If you just happen to be a fantastic poker player who wants to start and run a website as a money making proposition (and why shouldn't you!), there are avenues open to you that would not be open to occasional or average players.

For example you could use your expertise to give poker coaching that you could charge a premium for, or a fee based membership site for high level players or those who seek to be so.

For the rest of us (and I include myself here), there is still a vast opportunity to profit from poker.

As you are going to be running a poker website, you need to know about playing poker online. It doesn't matter too much how good or bad a player you are, you just need to know about playing on the websites in order to be able to write about them.

So first things first - learn about poker!

Only when you've learned the basics of the game can you move on to thinking about running a poker site.