If fun is more important than making money to you, and you enjoy the human face time involved in poker games, then you'd probably do best in a friendly private game. These are generally not too hard to find. You may already have people in your social network who play hold 'em, in which case joining or setting up poker games shouldn't be too hard.

Over the last few years, the card game of poker has turned into its own sport, with championship and world series games that are shown on television and covered in magazines.