Party Poker

Party Poker is one of Europe’s top poker sites and by far the largest. The poker room no longer accepts USA players, however has been able to not only maintain the level of traffic they once had but continue to grow at a steady rate. Party provides a full poker room with massive tournaments in addition to an in house casino, bingo, backgammon and sportsbetting. The company is fully licensed and regulated by the government of Gibraltar and one of the few which is traded on the London Stock Exchange. A few of the benefits for playing at PartyPoker include; easy to clear signup bonuses, bad beat jackpots, massive guaranteed tournaments and some of the loosest action available online. This poker site review covers all aspects of Party Poker.

Party Poker Deposit Bonus

PartyPoker provides the easiest to clear first deposit poker bonus in the industry. New players who use the Party Poker bonus code “TOPCODE” will receive a 100% match bonus up to $500. Obviously this is not as large as what some of the other rooms offer, but guaranteed you will be able to clear it, and you can expect frequent reload bonuses and no deposit bonuses sent to you on a weekly basis. All of the bonuses offered at PartyPoker do require that you earn a fixed amount of frequent player points prior to unlocking it. Points are earned by playing in any of the real money games where a rake or tournament fee is taken, at a rate of 5 party points for every $1 in rake.

Party Poker Ring Games

Ring games are always in full swing with cash games starting at $0.01/$0.02 up to $25/$50 and the poker room attracts more than 20,000 players during peak hours providing action in each of the stakes. PartyPoker supports the standard variation which means you will find tables available in Texas Holdem, Omaha, Omaha Hi Lo, and Seven Card Stud. The primary focus is on Holdem and Omaha but you should be able to find a few open tables in the Stud variations. One of the biggest attractions to the Party Poker cash games is the amount of soft games you will find. Easily the viewed flop percentage can climb as high as the low 60’s right up to $5/$10 NL. Rake is taken at a fixed rate of 5% which is capped at $3 per pot.

Party Poker Tournaments

Tournaments are scheduled 24/7 with various guarantees, re-buys, freezeouts and of course turbo tournaments available. You will be able to find various freerolls, for both beginners and party of their loyalty program. The poker room provides satellites and qualifiers for any of the major events including seats to the WSOP, Aussie Millions, European Poker Tour and Irish Open among others. The poker room is also famous for the annual Party Poker Millions which awards ten players with seats to one million dollar guarantee tournament. The biggest weekly event is scheduled each Sunday and provides a $200,000 GP. In addition to the main tournament schedule you will also find various Sit and Go tournaments played in full table, shorthanded, heads up and of course multi-table. Two of the features with the Party SNG tournaments are the Step tournaments, allowing you to get into some big games for a couple dollars, and the Hellkat tournaments, dubbed the fastest SNG tournaments online. The Hellkats are time based games which run for exactly 5 minutes or 15 minutes and have been a huge hit to the poker room.

Party Poker Software

Party Poker offers two variations to their software allowing both Mac and Windows the ability to play. Both the instant flash client and download perform well although we do recommend players download the full suite to make sure that you have all the available features offered. Once downloaded ,you will notice that the lobby provides every features and option for you. You will have access to your account balance and bonus information, up to date info for the bad beat jackpot and access to cash game statistics such as viewed flop percentage, hands per hour and average pot size. If you need more details about the game data, simply click any of the tables and additional statistics will show at the bottom of the screen. Hand history files can be accessed within the main lobby and the poker room is compatible with Poker Tracker software. The poker room does support some unique features including the ability to chop pots once an MTT is down to the final table. This option will only be applied as long as all players agree at which time the poker room will divide the remaining prize pool based on chip count. Players will be able to choose between multiple currencies including Pounds and Euros as well as a dedicated support team on hand for the dozen languages the poker room provides. Multi-tabling is available for up to four games in play at once with resizing tools on hand. Overall it’s a nice client and with frequent updates you shouldn’t experience any lags or delays, even when multi-tabling.

Party Poker Support

Party Poker has a great support team, with 24/7 dedicated support through email, live chat and by phone. We have used all three options and have never experienced any issues. We do suggest you try the live chat features first since the wait time for a reply is usually down to the bare minimal.

Party Poker Deposit Options

Deposit methods available include; VISA, MasterCard, NETeller, FirePay, Western Union, eChecks (by iGM-Pay), bank draft, cashier’s check, money order, check