Party Poker Review

Party Poker is the largest online poker room on the internet. On a weekend night, almost 80,000 people from all over the world can be found playing on their site. In the middle of the afternoon it is not uncommon to find over 40,000 players at the tables. Party Poker is also known to hold the largest Limit Holdem tournament in the world and is one of the many stops on the World Poker Tour.

Getting Started:

Party Poker’s software takes a few minutes to download. They offer a variety of play money games, which is good if you want to learn how to play a different game like Omaha Hi/Lo.

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Setting up a real money account is simple. My preferred method to fund an account is Neteller. Within minutes the transfer is approved and you can begin playing right away. They accept all major credit cards, e-Passport, FirePay, IGM-Pay, and Western Union transfers. Within minutes of setting up a real money account, a customer service rep calls you to verify that you funded your account. This is part of their attempt to provide extra security for their customers.

Interface & Software

The software is above average. The main lobby is easy to navigate. You can choose to play on regular tables or tournament tables. The best feature is the “Average Pot” function which helps you select a loose or tight table as you prefer. The poker tables include male and female avatars with your screen name and chip amount clearly visible. You are able to check your own session stats and take notes on players. You can choose a four-color deck if you have a tough time reading different suits. Another feature is an “Auto-Post Blind” button so you will never miss posting a blind. You have the option to show or muck your losing or uncalled hands. This function is perfect if you want to display your bluffs. You can also speed up the action by clicking on the “Fold to Any Bet” button. You can elect to get hand histories mailed to your email account, or downloaded into a special folder on your hard drive.

Games

Party Poker offers a wide selection of Limit, No Limit and Pot limit Texas Holdem, Pot Limit Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, seven card Stud, and Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo. The highest limit for Holdem is $30/$60 and they recently doubled the number of highest limit tables from three to six tables. The lowest limit they have is $0.50/$1. They also offer $1000 No Limit tables along with $600, $400, $200, $100, $50, and $25 NL tables. Unfortunately, there is not a large selection of high limit Seven Card Stud tables: only two $20/40 tables available. Party Poker also has Bad Beat Jackpot Tables from $2/$4 Limit Holdem all the way up to $1.30

Tournaments

Party hosts a variety of multi-table (MTTs) and single table tournaments (SNGs). They are both broken down into two sub-categories: regular and special. The regular MTTs are mostly NL Holdem with a couple of Limit events and Seven-Card Stud tournaments. The buy-ins are as little as $5 running up to $100 and run 24 hours a day. Party also offers Speed Tournaments with an accelerated blind structure. The special tournaments are usually satellites to the bigger Party Poker tournaments like the Million Dollar Guaranteed, WPT events, and other tournaments held in England, Australia, and Ireland.

Party Poker hosts SNGs for all of their table games. They offer $5, $10, $20, $30, $50, $100, and $200 tournaments. The SNGs are comprised of 10 players with the top three places winning the prize money in a 50%-30%-20% split. You can also play special SNGs to win seats into various multi-table satellites.

Deposit Bonus

The poker room initially offers players a 20% sign up bonus. Most recently, they offered reload bonuses of 20% up to $200, where you have to deposit $1000 to get $200. You have to play 7x the amount of your bonus in raked hands in order to clear your bonus. All new money players are eligible to play in a $5,000 New Player Freeroll.

Player’s Club

Party Poker recently introduced a Player’s Club where you accumulate points based on how many hands you play and how many tournaments you enter. These points can be exchanged for various Party Poker merchandise, or you can use the points to play in different Player’s Club Freeroll tournaments that give away as much as $5,000. You can also receive bonus points if you deposit additional funds, play raked hands for 20 or more days in a month, or if you play between the hours of 4:00 AM and 2:00 PM EST.

The Players

The players on Party Poker are notorious for being some of the worst players on the internet. The lowest limits are some of the toughest to crack on Party Poker. The middle levels are soft and that’s where a lot of people can make a profitable living if they play smart. Party Poker allows you to play more than one table at a time, and a lot of smart players take advantage of this feature.

Customer Service

Aside from the initial security check, Party’s support staff has a reputation of being below industry standards. The 24 Hour Live Help Chat feature never seems to work. You have to e-mail support a couple of times before you get a straight answer to your question. And usually you have to call them to get a real live person on the line so they can help you out. The staff is friendly and courteous but they are obviously swamped.

Summary

Party Poker is also the fastest growing poker site and they are adding more players daily. A year ago, only 35,000 nightly players could be found on the tables. Today, those numbers have doubled due to their aggressive marketing promotions. The word is out that some of the fishiest players navigate the low limit waters on Party Poker. So beware of the sharks swimming around out there, too.

Opening offer:

100% up to $100

Group:

Party Poker

Software:

iTech Labs

Games:

Texas Hold’em; Omaha; 5 and 7 Card Stud; multiplayer tables; head-to-head; sit and go; Free roll; and buy-in tournaments

Progressives:

Bad Beat Hold’em; Magic Hands

Banking:

VISA, MasterCard, Paysafe card, eps (Australia), WebMoney, Bancontact Mister Cash, iDeal, Laser card, Click & Buy, Click2Pay, Giro pay, ukash, Przleway24, DirectPay24, my citadel wallet, Poli, eWire, ELV Germany/Austria), Electronic Transfer (Canada), UsemyBank (Canada/U.K.), Switch/Solo/Maestro, Moneybookers, EntroPay, Neteller, bank wire transfer, bank transfer.

Support:

24/7/365 toll-free in 14 countries; email; live chat; call-back and VIP support

Legal:

licensed and regulated by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission and the Government of Gibraltar one of the world’s leading online gaming companies since 1997.

Extras:

Poker Messenger; Refer a Friend; leader boards; virtual tour

Lanuages:

English , French, German, Spanish

Currencies:

USD

Rack back rake:

n/a

Upcoming Tournaments on PartyPoker.com (Real Time)

Banned Countries:

USA

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