CelebPoker

The site looks very different to many of the other poker sites out there and your eyes are instantly drawn to the funky colours and slick design. It’s fair to say that this site looks great, with beautifully designed flash banners and loads of different promotions on display, rather than the dull green and reds that you usually see. CelebPoker’s top promotions and weekly tournaments have all been ranked in order of their ‘hotness’ by the CelebPoker ‘Hot-o-meter’ (a number of chillis underneath the tournament descriptions indicates how hot the tournament is) so you are it is easy to see when the major games are and what time they start, which is cool. The download is simple and registration doesn’t take long at all. Once inside the lobby, navigation is simple with a number of easy to use menu tabs. You can sort tables by their currency, size, flop percentage and amount, and just click on the desired table to join the game and start playing.

CelebPoker provides a good level of traffic, which seems to be getting drastically higher each month. The network has a peak of about 15,000 players, the bulk of whom are playing the small to medium tables, but there is also plenty of action at the top end for those players at higher stakes games. Also plenty of players in the weekly guaranteed tournaments battling it out for top prizes.

‘We help turn you into a poker celebrity’ and ‘Fame and fortune awaits you’ is the ethos that CelebPoker lives up to. Quite simply, they offer all players the chance to receive sponsorship and represent them as part of Team CelebPoker at major international events. Offering sponsorship deals to all is a novel idea, and a unique concept for a poker room. Hence, you will find that CelebPoker have lots of opportunities to qualify for live events on the site through freerolls, weekly tournaments or by the amount you rake for the higher stakes players – with the chance to play at the WSOP in Las Vegas, the EPT in Monte Carlo or the Irish Open to name but a few. They also have a number of other bonuses including, 30% lifetime rakeback, huge deposit bonuses, monthly freerolls and other exclusive giveaways - where players could even find themselves walking up the red carpet to a film premier surrounded by superstars or sipping champagne at an exclusive celebrity party! The recently launched Online Poker League is one of the biggest on the net, offering a massive €612,000 in prize money for all players, and other major tourneys include a weekly guaranteed €250,000 and Sunday €100,000 to keep you going. Above all, CelebPoker believes that a poker room should never ‘stand still’ therefore they endeavour to provide customers with the type of promotions they want to see. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, then just get in contact with them. CelebPoker’s support team will be eager to hear what you have to say, and delighted to see how they can improve their online poker experience.

Their software is clean, somewhat fast and easy learning. It provides a realistic feel that comes about as close as you can get to playing poker live in a casino, with great graphics and superb usability. Don’t just take our word for it though: readers of Gambling Online Magazine recently voted CelebPoker as The Best Poker Software 2007. A huge accolade, and clearly the readers know what they’re talking about. Overall, the software is very simple to play with a wide variety of tables and high functionality. You can see the % of players viewing the flop, the number of hands per hour, and the average pot in the lobby and when at the table. The software also supports multi-table play and is multilingual, currently available in 14 languages, with many multi-currency tables of all varieties. CelebPoker is also one of the only poker rooms in the world to their own avatar system, which allows players to upload their own bespoke avatar, which is hugely popular with new players and an excellent defining feature.

Good! With both Live-chat and telephone support this poker site proves that they are there to help. CelebPoker are renowned for having great customer support and have recently introduced a new player support team that online poker players of all levels can contact directly (via messenger, email or on the phone). The customer support team is in there to ensure that players are enjoying their experience on the site and will even give advice to players about new promotions and generally ensure you are up-to-date with the latest offers.

CelebPoker is fully licensed and regulated by the Gibraltar Regulatory Authority and is a well established operator with an excellent reputation, having been in operation since 2002. The site also has a Data Protection (to ensure your details remain secure) in addition to their Anti-Spam policy. CelebPoker is committed to ensuring that the site is 100% fair and safe for all of its players. This is good to see and CelebPoker has a security team that work endlessly to ensure game play remains this way, through manual vigilant checks and continual software updates. Once again, is any player suspects any collusion or has any further questions about CelebPoker’s security measures, then do not hesitate to contact them.

Euros (€), is the default currency of choice for Celeb. You can however play multi-currency tables in cash ring games with Euro (€), Pound (£) and U.S. Dollar ($) all available as options, however all of your deposits and withdrawals will be displayed in Euros and converted into the currency needed at the table. This is displayed in a simple and easy manner on when you join a table. When you leave the game, your chips are converted back to your original currency using the same exchange rate that the chips or tournament buy in was purchased with. There is no additional fee for converting currency. CelebPoker currently accepts the following payment options: Credit Card, Credit Card Alternatives, MasterCard, VISA, Debitcards, Moneybookers, ClickandBuy, PaySafeCard, Click2Pay, Moneta.ru, InstaCash, FirePay, NETeller, Bank draft, Wire Transfer.

Back in 2002, when CelebPoker was launched, they were built up a reputation as the world’s best celebrity poker room, where poker players could compete online against famous sports, television and music stars from around the world and win some great prizes along the way. Since then they have utilised their knowledge of celebrity culture in other ways, and, rather than focus on employing superstars already in the public eye, have decided it is time to provide poker players with the opportunity of becoming real-life celebrities themselves. This has been great for the site - and together with their award winning software, huge bonuses, personal support, excellent security and awesome innovative promotions, CelebPoker will grow from strength to strength.