Empire Poker
Find out why thousands of players play poker daily on EmpirePoker. Empire Poker offers a wide variety of games and tournaments. Empire Poker has commonly over 10,000 real-money players playing during peak hours. When you include play money players, they have over 50,000 players during peak hours. Most of their traffic is their live games and their single table tournaments. Their graphics are very slick and enjoyabe. Currently their promotions center on giving away seats to the 2005 WSOP.
Empire also hosts daily and monthly cash freerolls. All new, real-money players are entered into a $5000 freeroll at the end of the month. Empire also hosts two daily $500 freerolls. They are open to the first 250 players who register.
If you are not quite ready to play for real, then play their free software live with other players at no cost while you learn the rules.