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Party Poker

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Party Poker operates on an independent network and their own privately developed software. Party Poker just released brand new software in September of 2008 that is a giant leap forward from their last release. The new update features smooth, clean graphics and finally a new selection of well done avatars and the ability for players to upload their own photos for avatars. The new software also features improved ergonomics and button locations, better note taking and a chat client that is easier to read and manage.

PartyPoker.com offers two types of tournaments

Scheduled Tournaments:

These tournaments have a fixed starting time and are pre-announced. If you want to participate in one of these tournaments, you must register before registration closes. The registration closing time will vary from tournament to tournament, but it will always be announced in advance in the Lobby.

Sit & Go Tournaments:

These tournaments are available 24/7. They start as soon as a specified number of players are seated at the tournament table.

In addition to any rules posted in association with a particular tournament or promotion, our Standard Poker Tournament Rulesapply to all tournaments.

More About Party Poker

  • Party Poker has a huge player base and you can always find a game to get into no matter what time it is
  • Party Poker has great bonus offers for first time depositors using our Party Poker bonus code
  • Fast connections Party Poker has one of the fastest connections out of any online poker room
  • PartyPoker.com supports all major stats software like Pokeroffice and Calculatem

Players Only Poker

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Players Only is on the Cake Poker Network, which is a relatively new contender on the market. It is open to US players – it even accepts credit card deposits from US citizens! The poker network’s shared player base is in the middle of the pack, but still relatively small compared to the largest sites. One positive aspect of a growing site is the influx of new players – many of them from sports book and casino venues – which makes the games loose and interesting.

This site’s client was conceived and developed by a number of very dedicated poker players. As a result it possesses a practical lobby, great functionality and focuses on delivering a really good playing experience.

Promotions and Bonus

With Players Only being a new poker room on the market, you can count on some pretty lucrative promotions. The sign-up bonus is very impressive in itself, and on top of the regular bonus you will also receive an additional 10% on subsequent deposit in the form of a reload bonus.

You get one FPP (frequent player point) for each dollar taken in rake from a ring game where you were dealt cards. You don’t have to put any money in the pot to get the FPP, so tight grinders are favored. When it comes to tournament fees, each dollar earns you as much as seven FPP.

There is over $1,000,000 in guaranteed tournament prize money each month, and quite a few other valuable promotions. You will also accumulate Gold Chips as you play, which can be converted into free tournament tickets.

Games

Players Only Poker offers Texas Holdem, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7-Card Stud and 7-Card Stud Hi/Lo. Games are played in all the most popular settings – fixed limit, pot-limit, no-limit, full-table, short-handed and heads-up.

Most of the traffic is located to the Texas Holdem tables, but there is usually some action to be found in the other variations as well.

There is no shortage of poker tournaments either. Both the multi-table and sit-and-go sections are often densely populated. The poker room offers regular multi-table tournaments with guaranteed prize pools, which at occasions may add certain overvalue – keep your eyes open.

Doyle’s Room

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DoylesRoom.com is owned and operated by one of the most well known professional poker players from around the world, Doyle Brunson. This guy has won 11 WSOP bracelets and is a regular at the High Stakes Poker show. The old cowboy talking on doylesroom.com in the flash intro is Doyle Brunson.

Doyles Room is part of the Microgamiing Network which offers high traffic and a trustworthy playing environment.

Doyles Room is opened to US players except these states: South Dakota, Nevada, Oregon, Wisconsin, Washington State, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Illinois, New York and New Jersey.

The tournaments offered at Doyles room is extremely good with up to $1,000,000 in guaranteed tournaments every single week. Although the deposit bonuses can be a little difficult to clear unless you spend alot of time playing at the tables. But overall Doyles Room offers good bonuses, the poker players are fish-like and their customer service is superior. Click here to visit DoylesRoom.com.

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Red Kings Poker

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RedKings Poker is a relatively new poker site on the Ongame network with a shared player base and custom software. The software, as is the norm for Ongame sites, is particularly strong with great graphics and functionality and both a download and no-download client.

The download version is sleeker and more reliable, but the Java client works very well too and is one of the best choices for Mac users, who can play without any special installs.RedKings Poker has the usual number of special promotions, including big guaranteed tournaments, a bad beat jackpot and a variety of hand promotions.

It also offers a good statistical analysis of your game and an open database of the hands played at the site. Games offered are Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud, Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo and Five-Card Draw, with games varying between No-Limit, Pot-Limit, and Fixed-Limit.

Real-money player statistics as of April 2010 show 9000 ring-game players at peak hours and 45000 tournament players at peak hours.

RedKings.com is offered on the Ongame software platform, which is by far the most popular choice of poker and casino software. Our software is preferred by players worldwide for its ease of use, reliability and fantastic graphics. Choose your favourite avatar in the card room and while you play poker, enjoy all the attractive features available.

For example, you can track your statistics in a conveniently located box that opens below the main game screen by a simple click on an icon. Do you like chatting? An easy-to-read chat box opens up on the side of the screen, so you can keep an eye on it while you play.

Ongame’s software is constantly updated and improved, with great features that give you the choice of how you play our games. Don’t want to download the games because you’re at work, not at your home PC or just travelling around world, play the non-download Java (instant play) versions.

Tournaments

ChampionChip $300,000

Daily qualifiers for this event start from just $1+$0.20 or buy in directly to this $190+$10 tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of at least $300,000! This weekly tournament running every Sunday could seriously boost your bankroll.

EU Grand Prix $60,000 Guaranteed!

Our Grand Prix Tournament is one of our weekly highlights with an amazing guaranteed prize pool. EU Grand Prix is set on prime time; 20:00 CET Saturdays Buy-in $150+12

Bodog Poker

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Bodog Poker is one of the edgier online poker rooms with aggressive marketing, a young team that includes Evelyn Ng and David Williams and a high roller theme.

Although most online poker rooms still offer at least one “classic” looking table option, Bodog Poker has moved on with its futuristic floating design. Love it or hate it, you can’t deny it’s very functional.Players have complete control of the felt color on the tables and can use a slider to customize their playing experience.

Bodog.com is still one of the biggest online poker rooms in the world and thanks to a popular sportsbook it’s home to some of the worst poker players on the internet.

The software is intuitive, eye-pleasing, secure and most importantly fast. Unlike some rooms, Bodog Poker also offers the full assortment of poker variations with Hold’em, Pot-Limit Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud, Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo and even Five-Stud available.

Overall players looking for loose games, good software and a fresh attitude will likely be right at home on Bodog Poker.

Tournaments and Freerolls

Bodog Poker hosts a ton of tournaments every day with buy-ins ranging from $1 all the way up to several hundred dollars. For the most part tournaments are busy, fast and offer good structures. As usual, players in the low buy-in tournaments are quite bad while the bigger tournaments offer some stronger competition.

Bodog Poker is most famous for its $100 buy-in, $100,000 guaranteed tournament – an event praised for its good structure. Other tournaments where players can win big for small buy-ins are the World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker qualifiers.

Bodog Poker offers plenty of free or almost-free tournaments also. The freerolls are mostly large multi-table No-Limit Hold’em tournaments and feature, as expected, exceptionally loose play.

888 Pacific Poker

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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.

Titan Poker

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Titan Poker are the largest room on a network of sites which pool together their players known as the ‘iPoker Network’. The best thing about Titan is the profits you can make from the huge number of inexperienced (and just plain bad) players – the number of ‘fish’ really have to be seen with your own eyes to be believed! Titan and iPoker are collectively the 3rd largest site online – and the biggest of those who do not accept US Players – with peaks of more than 70,000 players meaning a huge choice of cash game and tournaments.

The sign-up bonus for SNG Planet readers is double the usual at 100% to $500 with our usual bonus code SNGPLANET plus you’ll get $20 free cash boost within 48 hrs (minimum $50 deposit required for the free cash!)

Bonuses and Promotions

The 100% to $500 Titan Poker sign-up bonus + $20 free cash boost (with Titan Poker Bonus Code SNGPLANET) is just the start of what regular players will receive at this site. This is released in $5 increments by collecting ‘Titan Points’. Those same points will be used to determine your ‘VIP Level’ and can be used to enter used to enter tournaments or exchanged for cash.

Your profits will be futher boosted by the large number of ‘1-off’ promotions and offers. There are regular reload bonuses, deposit offers (recently including a chance to win a plasma TV for example) and offers aimed specific games our events. Satellite qualifiers are also big at this site. Keep an eye on their website for the latest offers which are coming up virtually every week!

Texas Hold’em

Enjoy the thrill of playing the world’s most exciting Texas Hold’em poker gameat our well-attended card tables, or try your hand at Omaha High, Omaha High/Low, and 7 Card Stud at a variety of limits.

Tournaments

Titan Poker’s tournament selection is huge – focusing mainly on NL Holdem and Omaha variations. Buy-ins range from just cents up to $100’s with a focus on the range between $5 and $30. What stands out with the Titan Poker multi-table tournaments is the speed with which the fields diminish… if you take the ‘average’ for low buy-in online poker tournaments as being 40% to 50% in the first hour then look at the 50% to 65% at Titan Poker you will see what we mean!

There are many rebuy tournaments available – a popular choice being the nightly ‘$12,500 Guaranteed’ this is a $5+50c eveningrebuy which attracts large fields with correspondingly large prizes! Higher buy-in tournaments are available throughout the week as are satellites (both in SNG and MTT formats) to both online and offline events.

Full Tilt Poker

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Full Tilt Poker is one of the biggest online poker rooms in the world. The room is home to many famous professional poker players such as; Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson and more. Full Tilt is famous for it’s popular tournaments, but it also runs a large number of great cash games for the cash players.

For those that want to look like the pros, the points shop is excellent with all sorts of FTP merch that can be bought with your Full Tilt Poker points. Overall, Full Tilt delivers what you expect – plenty of tables and games to pick from, a strong pro presence to give you the “poker experience” and a chance to watch some super sick games at the marquee $500/$1,000 tables.

Software

The Full Tilt software is very well structured and runs incredibly smoothly at all times. The software is quick to download and install, and it takes up a very small amount of system resources, which means that it can be comfortably installed on the older computer. You will every rarely come across any glitches in this poker room client.

The Full Tilt lobby has been designed to make it as easy as possible for players to find the game they are looking for. Full Tilt offers a wide range of different games, so a good lobby system is a neccessity at such a big room. Luckily, the lobby is well structured and provides players with many options to sort the lobby to their own personal preference, which reduces the time it takes for you to find the perfect game.

Tournaments

he main Full Tilt tournaments are big multi-table tournaments that have a large field of players. These tournaments can take a long time to complete, but the large number of entrants means that there is a much bigger reward if you manage to finish highly. Full Tilt poker tournament games are also handy in helping you to accumulate Full Tilt points in order to redeem money from your Full Tilt bonus, as every $1 in tournament fees gives you 7 points.

Bonus

The bonus is 100% up to $600 for all new depositing players. To make sure you get the bonus, you should enter the referral code Full Tilt when you sign up to the room. The bonus can be redeemed by collecting Full Tilt player points, where 1 point is worth $0.06 of bonus mean. To put it another way, you will need to collect 167 points for every $10 of your bonus. To find out more about redeeming the bonus and how to get points, take a look at the guide to the Full Tilt poker bonus.

In a nutshell, the big Full Tilt bonus is one of the more attractive bonuses around. It is one of the easiest to redeem, which makes it worth checking out if you are looking to build your poker bankroll.

William Hill

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William Hill Poker delivers online poker at a superior level in the gaming industry, offering the best VIP Program along with continuous promotions and tournaments.

Combined with cutting edge software and award winning customer service – available 24/7 – William Hill is the only destination for online poker.

William Hill Poker offers over $20 Million in guaranteed prizes every month as well as an exciting line up of land based, cash games and countless bonus offers. There is no other choice when it comes to experiencing online gaming.

£400 New Player Bonus

The £400 New Player Bonus is a great way to get your new William Hill Poker bankroll off to a flying start.

When you make your first deposit, we’ll match it like for like with bonus dollars, up to an amazing £400!

Even if you’re an existing customer moving from the old software to the new, you’ll still qualify for the new player bonus based on your first transfer of funds into the Poker wallet.

And don’t forget – your first transfer or deposit into Poker also gives you automatic entry to our weekly $1,000 New Depositors Freeroll!

All In Madness!!!

Get set for a revolution in the world of Poker, as the fast-paced and exhilarating All-In Madness events take their place in the William Hill room.

Enter an All-In Madness tournament and you’ll find all of your chips in the middle on every hand, whether you’ve got 2/7 off suit or a pair of bullets!

The tournaments are available exclusively at William Hill Poker, with buy-in ranging from a testing the water £1 to a high-stakes and heart-stopping £100.

Play is available in a number of modes, including heads-up, single-table tournaments and incredible multi-table tournaments, where luck is the only strategy you can employ!

Bettson Poker

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Betsson Poker  is part of the Ongame network, which is one of the biggest online poker networks on the internet. Secondly, Betsson is one of the largest online sports betting companies in Europe.

Promotions and Best Bonus
Betsson is a poker room that offers a plethora of different bonuses and promotions even if some of these may be tricky to clear. There are several different options for first deposit bonuses which used to be difficult to clear. Depending on bonus codes used by players Betsson would give 150% match on their first deposit up to either $1,200, $1,400 or $1,600. These bonuses were extremely difficult to clear on lower stakes though. Betsson offers its players rakeback too, but they obviously don’t want any low-volume guys playing at their tables because that too has a minimum amount set under which players shall not be paid out.
Other than these bonuses, Betsson has a bunch of promotions running, which feature more than $ 10 million a month in guaranteed prizes. Their Christmas special pits players against Betsson pros in a bounty tournament. Their Mad Tilt SNGs, Turbo tournaments and King of the Hill promotion are also very popular.

Tournaments
As any respectable online poker room, Betsson features a large number of tournaments (both STTs and MTTs) running all the time to keep their players busy. Almost all these tourneys are NL Holdem ones, only a few of them feature PL Omaha. Notable tourneys are their daily $250 freerolls, which are replaced by a $500 one on Sunday. Their $50+$4 Can daily NL Holdem tourneys are also fairly popular as they feature quite generous prize-pools. The Midnight Oil ($20+$2 NL Holdem) tournaments are another daily feature as well as the Aussie daily.

Software
Betsson is using the battle-hardened Ongame software which might not look pretty but it’s very efficient and it runs smoothly even on the most ancient of machines. The blatant simplicity of the software has apparently finally struck a cord with the producers a little while back because it has been improved in several aspects. Avatars have been added to make it look more like a modern poker room and graphics have generally been smoothened.
The extra features offered by the client have also been extended. One can now color-code certain opponents as a fast and easy way of taking notes on them. The taking of actual notes is also available but the color-coding thing is still a nice addition. Statistics like flops viewed and average pot sizes are there, and the chat blocking feature may also come in handy every now and then. No more listening to the mindless babble of some frustrated opponent and no more tilting an account of it. A java version has also been added to the site to facilitate fuss free and quick play under special circumstances.
Almost all of their daily schedule gets repeated throughout the week, with bigger prizes featured on weekends.
One of the Betsson tournament flagships is their monthly $500,000 guaranteed “Grand Tournament” which features bigger and bigger prize-pools as more and more players reach the conclusion that it is worth investing $1,000 into it. The buy-in is pretty restrictive, so Betsson has made sure players of more modest material means can also gain access through a series of qualifiers.