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Best Internet Poker Sites
With so many online poker sites it can be hard to know which are
best to play on. We've brought together information on the best
and most popular poker sites. Now you can find the best sites to
play the games you want and get the best bonuses possible.
Poker.com is fairly new to the online poker scene, but seems
to be doing everything right with a great interface, bonuses
and lots of freerolls.
Deposit Bonus: 30%
up to $200
Available Games: Texas Hold 'Em
& Omaha
Deposit Options: Neteller, Click2Pay,
Firepay, Credit Cards, Wire Transfer & Citadel.
Plundercove
Review: Poker.com is a fairly new online poker room and
so far seems very promising.
The player interface is nice and clear and quite customizable
to suit your own preferences. For those that like to chat
while playing you can show a larger chat screen and even have
little player speech bubbles - of course these can easily
be turned off as I can imagine they would get quite annoying
to some players.
Poker.com offers $5000 in Freerolls a day - that works out
to about one every 2 hours. They have an easy to view freeroll
schedule which show you which tournaments you are eligable
to play - a couple are reserved for those who have played
a ceratin number of raked hands that day but most are open
to everyone.
Deposits and withdrawls are available through all the usual
channels (Neteller, Click2Pay, credit cards etc) and they
offer and instant cash out through Neteller for when you want
ot get at those winnings fast!
All in all, Poker.com seems like a great place to play some
poker online...
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PokerChamps is now starting to become established as a major
online poker room. They have lots of freerolls allowing you
to practice and build up your bankroll and they are still
adding new features and games all the time.
Deposit
Bonus: Up to 50% rakeback program, plus periodic deposit
bonuses
Available Games: Texas Hold 'Em &
Omaha. Omaha 8 or Better, 7 Card Stud, Stud 8 or Better coming
soon.
Deposit Options: Neteller, Visa & Wire
Transfer.
Plundercove Review: We've been playing
at Pokerchamps for a while now during its Beta tesing phase
and we like it a lot
There are still freerolls every 2 hours - great for tournament
practice and for building up your bankroll a bit for free.
We like the way the software works. You can have up to 4 games
running at once all in one window making it great for people
who like playing multiple games at once. It's also really
easy to see what's going on in the tournament your in. There
is a info tab with tournament info that's there all the time
- no scrolling info that quickly disappears like on most other
sites. Everyone's current tournament positions are also displayed
next to their name at the table.
The chat window is also nicely sized, meaning that you can
easily see what happened in pervious hands (on many other
sites the info has scrolled away before you can see who won).
Bet amount and the pot size are also very clear.
And the best thing of all...no annoying "characters" as your
table - just the cards!
All in all, we think it is a great site, especially now that
there are some more real money games available.
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Pacific Poker is a long established poker site, having been
in operation since 1996. With a wide number of deposit options
and a great deposit bonus, its one of the top places to play
poker online.
Deposit Bonus: 25% on initial
deposit up to $100
Bonus Points: Earn comp
cash as you play which can be converted to cash at any time
Available Games: Texas Hold 'Em, Omaha, Omaha
8 or Better, 7 Card Stud, Stud 8 or Better
Deposit
Options: Credit Card, Debit Card, Neteller, Firepay, eCheck
& more
Plundercove Review: I have just recently
started playing at Pacific Poker. The software download and
istallation was easy but my Adware/Spyware checker did come
up with a couple of programs running after the install so
you may want to be aware of this when installing the software.
I signed up for a real money account but didn't actually deposit
any money - later that day they had deposited a free $10 in
my account for me to play with, which was a nice bonus that
I hadn't expected.
There are plenty of games and tournaments going on, with tournaments
starting as low as 50c buy ins. I have found that in tournaments
it's quite hard to keep track of what's going on in the tournament
as a whole: I couldn't tell what was happening at the other
tables and it wasn't easy to find information about the payout
structure etc once in the tournament. The blind structure
is very clear with a clock to say when the blinds will next
go up.
Pacific Poker has a lot of deposit options. I have yet to
withdraw any money but I haven't heard any negative comments
about them in this respect.
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Ultimate Bet is another very popular online poker site with
over 10,000 players on at a time. Ultimate Bet offer a wider
number of games than most sites, plus they have many low limit
games for those just starting out.
Deposit Bonus:
20% on initial deposit up to $100
Bonus Points:
Earn Ultimate Points as you play which can be redeemed against
anything from playing cards to cruises and motorbikes.
Available Games: Texas Hold 'Em, Omaha, Omaha
8 or Better, 7 Card Stud, Stud 8 or Better, Triple Draw, Pineapple
Deposit Options: Credit Card, Debit Card, Neteller,
Firepay, Check & more
Plundercove Review:
I've been playing at Ultimate Bet for quite a while now and
overall it has some good features.
One thing that I really like about Ultimate Bet is that the
cards are very clear and you are always sat in the same position
at the table. This makes it a lot easier when you are changing
tables in tournaments - no looking round to find where your
new seat is.
They have plenty of low and high limit games going on at any
time. The one problem I've had is that it can be hard to get
on the very low limit Sit & Go's at peak times: You can click
on one as soon as it appears in the tournament list and it
can be full up by the time you make it there. The lists also
move around quite a bit - I have known people to accidently
enter higher buy-in events than they intended because of this,
so keep an eye on the tournaments you are clicking on.
I have experienced a couple of software freeze ups while playing,
but all in all it's been a pretty good site to play on.
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Party Poker is one of the biggest poker sites wih over 50,000
players on at peak times. Offers satellites to the World Poker
Tour Party Poker Million
Deposit Bonus: 20%
on initial deposit up to $50
Available Games:
Texas Hold 'Em, Omaha, Omaha 8 or Better, 7 Card Stud, Stud
8 or Better
Deposit Options: Credit Card,
Debit Card, Neteller, Firepay, eCheck & more
Plundercove
Review: Party Poker, what can I say? I play there quite
a bit, but am often annoyed.
The software is easy enough to get used to; navigation on
the left and a list of games on the right. The list of games
changes pretty quickly, and you can sometimes click into a
game that's already over, but it's not a big deal. Just leave
the table and you're back to the list of games.
The truly annoying aspects of Party Poker come in once you're
seated.
First, it seems like every 19 year old, cocky prick under
the sun plays at Party Poker. There's at least one idiot at
every table, and some linger well after they've been knocked
out harassing the players still at the table. I mostly play
the freebie tournaments, and maybe it's different in the real
money games, but Party Poker shows an amazing capacity for
idiots, so I'm not convinced. On the flip side, it's easy
enough to turn off chat, so this doesn't have to be a problem.
The other really annoying thing about Party Poker is the actual
game play. It's a bit like a cattle auction. The pace is lightning
fast, with little time to make bets, read the cards, etc.
It's not so bad in hold 'em where you only have a few cards
to consider, but in other games like 7 card stud, hi-lo split,
a bit more time would be helpful. This is especially true
at the end of the hand where the pot, and potentially a half
dozen side pots, is divvied up. I find I often spend the first
half of the next hand sorting out who had what...
Really annoying elements aside, there's always a game available
at Party Poker. It's a Monday at 2:34 PM EST and there are
over 31,000 players logged in.
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Absolute Poker is currently offering a great deposit bonus
- 35% up to $210. They also offer satellites to both the World
Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker.
Deposit
Bonus: 35% on initial deposit up to $210
Bonus
Points: Earn points from the Absolute Rewards Program
which can be redeemed against Absolute Poker merchandise
Available Games: Texas Hold 'Em, Omaha, Omaha
8 or Better, 7 Card Stud, Stud 8 or Better
Deposit
Options: Credit Card, Debit Card, Neteller, Firepay, eCheck
& more
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