Party Poker review

Party Poker details

• First impression

  It is one of the largest online poker rooms. Party Poker has been on the Net since 2001 and is among the oldest and most trusted poker rooms. The room features an extensive game variety, impressive bonuses and a good loyalty program. The room is always full of intense 24/7 action – the tables are never empty, and you will find lots of opponents seeking a challenge any time of day you want. In addition to their superb software, enormous ring game and tournament player traffic, PartyPoker was the world's largest and the most popular room up to 2006, now it is in the top 5. Multi-tabling is easy and gives you an opportunity to step into a faster pace of poker play. Play money or real money, Party Poker has a game custom built for you. Party Poker’s specialty is having a poker room filled with tournament and live action, in all limits and game formats, 24 hours a day. The action never stops and the doors never close.

• Special Promotions

  Play poker and earn PartyPoints, each PartyPoint gives you one ticket to the next day’s drawing for The Big Deal. The Big Deal will see $10,000 daily being paid to 100 lucky players in cash prizes running from $25 to $500. And each PartyPoint also gives you a ticket to the mega jackpot draw on November 1st where 10,000 happy winners will share an estimated $2Million in cash draws. King of the Table Tournament guarantees a prize pool of $2Million; get in the action for as little as $1, don’t delay though, the tournament takes place on November 30th and Party Poker expects the winner to take home over $300,000. PartyPoker’s progressive Bad Beat Jackpot proves you’d rather lose than win sometimes. All it takes is four of a kind (pocket 8’s or higher) and if the hand qualifies, you could be stacking a monster load of cash for losing. Party Poker Tournaments stack up to a lot of guaranteed cash that you have an opportunity to play for such as the $300K Guaranteed Sunday, and the 50 Seat Frenzy can put you there in a heartbeat. Invite your friends, there’s a bonus for you when they accept your invitation, and they receive a bonus also. Party Poker didn’t invent poker but they came close.

• Player traffic

  It was the largest online poker room for 5 years, but after the UIGEA, Party Poker banned all US players, which made up 60% of room’s traffic. Since 2006 it has concentrated on the European and Asian poker players and traffic is increasing rapidly. They are organizing various live poker tournaments in different parts of the world and it is becoming more and more popular all over the world. Party Poker does not provide stats about its current traffic, but more than 5,000 players are playing there all the time. You will always find someone to play with, especially if you are a Texas Holdem or Omaha lover.

• Features in detail

  There are very many promotions that start and end almost every week. Right now qualifiers to the WSOP are running, the Party Poker European Challenge has just started, PartyPoker million, Bad Beat Jackpots, $10,000 Gridiron Party and more. At Party Poker you will find Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, 7-Card stud, and 7-Card stud Hi-Lo. Game limits run from low $.50/$1 to $250/$500. Pot-limit and no-limit games are included. Some games have no pot-limit version. There are a wide range of single table tournaments and multi-table tournaments.

• Software

  Software is very impressive, displaying wonderful graphics and good quality connections. With bonuses discussed, the next important thing, considering an on-line poker room, is its software. As with Party Poker, the software is being constantly upgraded to suit most players, and the functionality their software provides is quite impressive – the room gives its users the ability to play at twelve tables, per player, simultaneously. Furthermore, despite the huge amount of simultaneous connections to the server, it's still fast and the connection itself is reliable. Certainly, it's not that the software is without quirks – no matter how fast and/or reliable it is, some minor bugs show up here and there at certain moments. However, the staff does their job to see their software is updated from continuously, and they do the job well. Recently, a no download version was integrated. Now players can play poker anywhere, anytime without having to download the Party Poker software. A big plus for the software.

• Support

  Support at Party Poker is exceptionally fast-to-respond and reliable, featuring 24/7 telephone and email contact options. Also there is a very informative FAQ, with the most common questions asked, at Party Poker. Toll-free numbers are available in Canada, UK, Rep. of Ireland, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Luxembourg, Hungary, Poland, Norway and Portugal. Calling from other countries incurs charges by international rates.

• Security

  Highest security is guaranteed at Party Poker. All of the personal information Party Poker receives directly from you is held in a password-protected database. Party Gaming online sites and the Service support SSL Version 3 with 128-bit encryption. These are the best Internet security features today. Your money and personal data is safe here.

• Banking

  Party Poker players are able to cash-out and deposit their money using almost every available option: paysafecard, eps, webmoney, ideal, visa, mastercard, click2pay, giropay, ukash, ewire, monyebookers, usemybank, neteller, entropay, electronic transfer, bank transfer, bank wire transfer and some other less known options. All of the banking options can be found on PartyPoker site.

• Summary

  PartyPoker was greatly affected by the UIGEA and lost thousands of players in the US. However, the increasing numbers proves how powerful and experienced this site is. They are almost up to what was lost. Party Gaming is now one of the greatest European poker rooms. They have superb security and stable software, great support and lots of features. Party Poker’s high traffic prize pools often reach hundreds of thousands of dollars. And Party Millions is probably every poker player;s dream. Truly this is the place to play if you want to hit the big time.