Online Poker Awards is proud to present the awards for the best in online poker for 2009. These awards, which were presented in January of 2009, highlight the best online poker rooms, websites, magazines, books, and other resources available to the online poker player.

Best Online Poker Room: Full Tilt Poker

They’ve been around only a few years, but Full Tilt Poker has some of the best action going. We give them this award, not because they have the most active players, but because they have the best action of all the great poker rooms. There are rooms that have more players, but none of those rooms come close to the combination of a classy room, great customer service, excellent graphics, and many players at all levels.

Best Online Poker Room and Sportsbook: Bodog

Bodog Poker has one thing the other winners this year do not – an online sportsbook. With one account you can use your money to play poker as well as bet on a game, horse, or any of the weird-ass propositions going. If we had a category for best online sportsbook, Bodog, would win easily. Combine that with an excellent poker room and you have a real winner. And if you are into casino gambling, Bodog also has a top notch online casino.

Best Online Poker Education: Poker School Online

Once again, this is an easy award to give out for two reasons. First and most important, Poker School Online is a high quality, professional, economical, and well-respected online school for poker players of varied skill levels. Second, no other similar school even comes close to providing what Poker School Online does.

Best Online Poker Software: Poker Office

For Texas Hold `Em. Poker Office comes with a Live Advisor Window that displays real time opponent modeling of the players you are currently facing, real time probabilities of future hands, hand rankings, pot odds and live graphs and statistics. PokerOffice tracks all of your opponents actions as well as your own game. It stores all of the collected data and brings you summarized statistical reports, spreadsheets and graphs of your own and your opponents play. Need we say more?

Best Poker Book (General): Super System by Doyle Brunson

This classic book is considered by the pros to be the best book ever written on poker! Jam-packed with advanced strategies, theories, tactics and money-making techniques – no serious poker player can afford to be without this hard-hitting information. Includes fifty pages of the most precise poker statistics ever published. Features chapters written by poker�s biggest superstars, such as Dave Sklansky, Mike Caro, Chip Reese, Bobby Baldwin, and Doyle – two world champions and three master theorists. Essential strategies, advanced play, and no-nonsense winning advice on making money at 7-card stud (razz, high-low split, cards speak, and declare), draw poker, lowball, and hold�em (limit and no-limit). Get it at amazon.com

Best Poker Book (Texas Holdem): Winning Low-Limit Hold`em (2nd Edition) by Lee Jones

This is another poker book that has stood the test of time and we can’t say it any better than what Chris Ferguson (2000 World Series of Poker Champion) says: “Don’t read this book! If everyone followed the instructions in this book I’d have to find a new line of work.” If you play low-limit Hold�em, or would like to learn to play Hold�em, this book is for you. It won�t teach you a lot of advanced poker theory, but it will give you a solid foundation with which you can be a winner at low-limit Hold�em. Read this book, study it carefully, and be disciplined: you�ll be able to beat any 1-4, 3-6, or 1-4-8-8 Hold�em game you join. Get it at amazon.com

Best Poker Book (Omaha): Winning Omaha/8 Poker by Mark Tenner, Lou Krieger

Omaha/8, in our opinion, is one of the hardest poker games to master. This excellent book from two top Omaha players is top notch. Mark Tenner has been playing and winning on a regular basis for 40 years, and can generally be found playing in the highest limit games. For the last several years, Mark has played Omaha/8 almost exclusively. His peers consider him one of the finest minds in the game because of his almost uncanny feel for how Omaha/8 should be played. It is this special gift, along with general expertise, that Mark Tenner brings to this book. Because he is also a skilled communicator, he succeeds in imparting not only tips and techniques but his unique process of analysis and thinking. Get it at amazon.com

Best Poker Book (7-Card Stud): Winning 7-Card Stud: Transforming Home Poker Chumps into Casino Killers by Ashley Adams

Everyone who plays home poker knows how to be a chump. This book will convert you from a chump to a killer. The books takes you through a step by step approach to take you from a losing player, where antes and bad play will chew up your bankroll, to a winning player where you can systematically destroy the chumps who haven’t read this book. Get it at amazon.com

Best Poker Magazine: Card Player

This is no surprise to any serious poker player. Inside Card Player, you’ll find page after page of informative playing strategy, poker articles by some of the greatest poker players in the game today, upcoming tournaments, as well as major poker tournament results. Get it at amazon.com