$5,000 backdoor free roll for all new players
coming via PokerListings PLUS free Party Poker cap
PLUS extra private loyalty free rolls for big rakers
from PokerListings every month PLUS $100 sign-up
bonus Party Poker boasts the world’s highest
traffic in both ring games and tournaments. Beside
the huge traffic there are many other advantages
with Party Poker, such as loose games, great
promotions and loyalty program, special events and a
membership referral program. There are quite a few
juicy games at Party Poker with loose action even up
to the $15/$30 limits. However, you don’t get the
statistics to easily locate those games. Party Poker
has a large network of so-called “skins”, where
other doorway sites uses Party Poker’s software,
operations and player database. Real money player
statistics - March 2005: 17000-20000 ring game
players at peak hours, 23000-27000 tournament
players at peak hours.
Software and graphics
PartyPoker's software is quite good, with a number
of upgrades during both 2003 and early 2004. We are
not big fans of the graphics, but from a practical
standpoint the playability is good. With its
phenomenal growth, Party Poker has added servers and
increased bandwidth in order to secure full
relability at +50,000 simultaneous players. However,
a few players have complained over delays and
disconnections at certain tournaments. Overall
though, Party Poker has very good quality nowadays
in line with or better than most competitors.3
simultaneous tables per player are allowed.
Unfortunately, the view flop percentages are not
presented, neither are hands per hour rate. (This
has the benefit though, that the looser games are
"protected"). You see the average pot size
of the last 20 hands. The personal playing
statistics function is somewhat rudimentary, but
works well. Player notes function is included. In
sum, the software is good today after improvements
to support the record-braking traffic.
Ring game traffic
Party Poker became the world's largest site in ring
game traffic already by late 2002/early 2003, after
its legendary launch campaign. They are keeping up
the ultra aggressive marketing and the traffic keeps
climbing to new record levels every month. Currently
there are about 17000-20000 real money ring game
players at peak hours!!!
Tournament traffic
Party Poker traffic at the tournaments is the
highest in the world. Beside no-limit and limit
Texas Holdem, there are lots of tournaments in both
7-card stud and Omaha. Party Poker probably hosts
more than 70% of all fixed limit Texas Holdem
tournaments in the world! The traffic currenlty
reaches somewhere between 23000 and 27000 real money
tournament players at peak hours!!!
Game variety
Good, thanks to the leading volume in all games
hosted; Holdem, Omaha and 7-Card-Stud in both High
and Hi-Lo. However, Party Poker does not offer
certain games such as heads-up matches, draw poker,
crazy pineapple, etc. Moreover, there is no
pot-limit version in any of the 7-Card-Stud games or
the Omaha High.
Rake
PartyPoker's rake is not so attractive, as it highly
disfavors the low limit games. The higher limit
games actually have a comparably low rake. The rake
runs as high as 10% in $0.50/$1 and $1/$2 games, as
50 cent is raked when the pot reaches $5. This holds
true also for the tournaments, where good value only
is provided at the higher stakes. 20% fee in $5
games and 8% fee in $100 games.
Soft competition
Party Poker has been able to maintain loose and
juicy games over time, with the constant influx of
beginners and gamblers looking for action. Even at
"middle limit online games" this holds
true - you can typically find very soft games even
up to $2/$4 in no-limit and $5/$10 in fixed limit,
whereas on most other poker rooms these stakes will
give you rather tough opposition.
Sign up bonus
Either 20% bonus match up to $100 or $25 flat bonus,
via our landing page at Party Poker. Plus $5,000
free roll to all new users signing up in January to
March to be played second week of April. All new
users also get a complimentary cap sent out from
Party Poker! For the max $100 bonus you need to play
500 raked hands within 30 days to get the $100
(equals 5 raked pots per bonus dollar). You will
also have the chance on a monthly basis to be
entered into our ongoing private free rolls for
loyal players which we start in February 2005.
Loyalty bonus
It gets better and better, now there are both a big
frequent player points program as well as numerous
re-deposit promotions in which you get 15%-25% up to
$100 maximum.
Promotions
Party Poker is one of the leaders in promotions. In
terms of big events, they host the flagship event
PartyPoker.com Million annually. The regular clients
are offered several types of promotions, based on
the raked hands they have played. They have a
standing membership referral scheme where you can
get up to $50 for each referral.
Support
The support is since late 2004 much better at Party
Poker, in particular the 24/7 telephone support now
often responds in under a minute! The support is
nowadays very knowledgable on promotions and other
trickier issues. Also, the live 24/7 floor person
support has worked well during our testing. Email
has worked OK, even though the response times were a
bit long. Upgraded to very good score in Jan 2005.
Financial security
Top score, as the leading online poker rooms in the
world, with no earlier recorded problems.
Deposit & withdrawal options
Deposit options: VISA, MasterCard, NETeller,
FirePay, Western Union, Citadel (US only), eChecks
(by iGM-Pay)bank draft, cashier's check, money
order, check. Cash out options: NETeller, wire
transfer, check, eChecks (by iGM-Pay).
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