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If
You Are Interested In Online Poker, Below are Our Three Best
Poker Rooms Online . . .
We have listed the best
three poker rooms on the internet below:
These three make up between
60-70% of all online poker action avaialble at the moment.
Therefore whatever poker game you are looking for chances
are you will find it here. We have included collection of
poker rules, ettiquitte and getting started here.
Scroll down the page to
find out greater details of each poker room. Most online casinos
now have poker rooms within the casino so you might like to
check out our recommended casinos here.
Party
Poker
Email: info@partypoker.com
Deposit options: VISA,
MasterCard, NETeller, FirePay, Western Union, Citadel (US
only), echeques (by iGM-Pay) bank draft, cashier's cheque,
money order, cheque.
Withdrawal options: NETeller,
wire transfer, cheque, echeques (by iGM-Pay).
Sign-up bonus: 20% bonus
match up to $100 (pokerlistings.com & pokernews.com).
You need to play 500 raked hands within 30 days to get the
$100 (equals 5 raked pots per bonus dollar) There is also
a referral bonus of $50 per friend.(pokerlistings.com &
pokernews.com)
Loyalty bonus: With frequent re-deposit promotions
in which you get 15%-25% up to $100 maximum. Also, there are
many free rolls and promotions for frequent players based
on raked hands during certain periods.
Minimum system requirements:
Windows 95, 98, NT4, 2000, ME or XP. Pentium system with
at least 32MB of RAM. Download size:3.1MB approx.
Games offered: Texas Hold'em,
Seven Card Stud, Stud 8 or Better, Omaha High, Omaha 8 or
Better.
Limits & Rake: Party
Poker offers limits from $0.5/$1 right trough to $30/$60.
The rake is pretty standard. This site did offer better value
for the lower limit games, but is now the standard 5 per cent,
capped at $3 for the medium limit games. For the lower limit
games a max of $1 for $1/$2 games and 50 cents for $0.5/$1
games is taken out of the pot. However, this is only taken
if the pot reaches $20 and $5 respectively, which is pretty
good. For higher limit games Party Poker offers fairly good
value with significantly less than 5 per cent taken out of
each pot.
Summary: Party Poker launched
in 2001 and currently boasts the world's highest traffic in
the ring games. They claim to be the world's largest poker
room. Besides the huge traffic there are many other advantages
with Party Poker, such as great promotions, special events,
membership referral program and quite juicy games with lots
of "fish". In fact, with the very aggressive marketing
Party Poker has been able to attract tons of beginners, which
guarantees overall loose action at the tables, and easy to
beat games. Their marquee annual tournament, Party Poker.com
Million has a $5000 buy-in and a $1,000, 000 first prize.
Security is top notch, but the support is slow as they are
often overloaded with calls/emails. There is a toll free number
provided for US/Canada residents only. The software is nowadays
running smoothly and has quite good functionality and good
graphics.
Paradise
Poker
Email: support@paradisepoker.com
Deposit options: VISA,
MasterCard, NETeller, FirePay, wire transfer, bank draft.
Withdrawal options: VISA,
NETeller, FirePay and cheque
Sign-up bonus: The 25%
deposit bonus, limited to $50 is below average. Play 500 raked
hands, in which you just get dealt cards, within any time
limit to get the $50.
Loyalty bonus: Nil
Minimum system requirements:
Windows 95, 98, NT4, 2000, ME or XP. Pentium system with at
least 32MB of RAM. Download size:5.03MB approx
Games offered: Texas Hold'em,
Seven Card Stud, 7 Card Hi/Lo or Better, Omaha High, Omaha
8 or Better, Five Card Stud, Five Card Draw, Crazy Pineapple.
Limits & Rake: ParadisePoker's
rake is less attractive than the average in the industry,
at least when it comes to lower limit games. This holds true
also for the tournaments, where good value is only provided
at the higher stakes. They have all limits of games from 1c/2c
limit up to $30/$60.
Summary: Paradise Poker
is one of the definite leaders in online poker, with one of
the best software around and very high traffic. (It used to
be the largest poker room in the world, before Party Poker
took over). The site is often considered to provide the highest
quality experience. Paradise Poker also has great game variation.
Security and support is top-notch however they let themselves
down in this area by not having a telephone option or live
chat. Emails are literally answered within minutes though!
If you are looking to make easy money - you have come to the
wrong place! Paradise Poker is notorious for the quality of
the players and the tightness of the games.
Pacific
Poker
Deposit options: VISA,
MasterCard, NETeller, FirePay, wire transfer, bank draft.
Withdrawal options: VISA,
NETeller, FirePay, Debit Card and cheque. Known to be a little
slow to process withdrawals, but has improved somewhat.
Sign-up bonus: 25% sign
up bonus, up to $100 for new players.
Loyalty bonus: Every
$10 bet on raked hands earns you 1 Bonus Point, 100 Bonus
Points can be converted to $1.
Minimum system requirements:
Windows 95, 98, NT4, 2000, ME or XP. Download size:5.03MB
approx
Games offered: Texas Hold'em,
Play Omaha Hi, Omaha Hi/Lo, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud
Hi/Lo (8 or Better).
Limits & Rake: The
rake is pretty standard, with better offers at micro-levels
and somewhat better at the highest stakes. Pacific Poker has
a "No Flop - No Drop" rake policy, like most sites.
This means that Pacific Poker only rakes the pot when the
flop is reached.
Summary: Pacific Poker
has become a favorite poker room for many Texas Holdem players
looking for very "juicy" high-action tables and
frequent promotions. The basic software is the only letdown,
where you can only play at one table at the time and the graphics
leaves room for major improvement. For some reason cash outs
a this site are a bit on the slow side, but they always come,
Customer support deal with problems promptly through emails.
Simply the best site-security available, they have gone to
great lengths to assure their players' peace of mind.
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