Gaming Empire

Pacific Poker is part of the 888 Holdings group, the company behind the world’s largest online casino. As you can imagine, this means a lot of wild casino customers at the poker tables. Combined with lots of promotions, that also means a lot of Texas Hold’em players come to Pacific Poker for juicy high-action tables and good bonuses.

The No-Limit and Pot-Limit cash games are strongly recommended for players looking to make a profit. Viewed-flop percentages are often in the high 50s and 60s – sometimes even up in the 70s – which is pretty ludicrous. No-Limit games are easilyamong the juiciest and loosest online.

The upgraded Pacific Poker software offers players a lot: great graphics and functionality, improved search functions and layout, nice looking 3-D avatars, integrated casino and bingo play, an always-visible cashier and improved multi-tabling abilities – up to 16 tables can now be tiled or cascaded at one time (8 cash and 8 tourneys).

Tournaments and Freerolls

Pacific Poker has a nice variety of tournaments, with buy-ins from $1 up to a few hundred. Tournaments are busy, fast and very loose with play at any level among the loosest and juiciest out there. Even the bigger buy-in tournaments offer relatively loose play.

All tournaments draw a very solid amount of players – the $30+$3 Deep Stack on Fridays ($15k guarantee, 5,000 starting chips) in particular offers great value and play. Also drawing a lot of traffic are the frequent qualifiers to big live and online poker events like the European Poker Tour, Aussie Millions and Irish Open.

Software and Graphics

The Pacific Poker software is privately owned and developed and shares no player base outside the 888 network. Among the new features: Three table views to choose from, six action buttons in every view, info boxes right at the table during tournaments showing key stats like players remaining and stack sizes and a new unique sit-and-go tab.