Sun Poker
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Overall Sun Poker Review
Sun Poker is one of the oldest and most reputable European poker rooms online. The poker room is powered by the Cryptologic network which means players will always have a steady amount of traffic throughout most hours of the day and a fast performing software platform. The poker room is known for their big promotions such as their $30,000 tournament leaderboard, a top rate first deposit bonus and plenty of seats to live events like the WSOP and Caribbean Poker Classic. Sun Poker is now compatible for both Mac and Windows players and provides games in Euros and Pounds. This poker room is not available for US players. This poker site review is up-to-date and provides a special bonus offer.
Sun Poker Deposit Bonus
Sun Poker offers all new players who use THIS LINK to sign up a 100% match up to $500 or the equivalent a 100% match up to £250. No poker site bonus code is needed. This bonus will require you to meet the play through requirements first before you will see it released in to your poker account. Instead of frequent player points, Sun Poker refers to these as My Play Points or MPP’s and you will need to earn at least 160 MPP’s to release the first $20 of your poker bonus. Following this you can expect to be able to receive an additional $200 / £100 in bonus each month as a regular player. The MPP’s will also qualify you for the Sun Poker leaderboard and other special events and promotions the poker room hosts on a regular basis.
Sun Poker Ring Games
Sun Poker provides ring games in Texas Holdem, Omaha, Omaha Hi Lo, 7 Card Stud Fixed with stakes starting at $0.02/$0.04 up to $25/$50. They are still a smaller room than most networks with 2,500 – 2,700 players online during peak hours. The majority of the traffic is focused on the Texas Holdem tables than any other poker game the room supports with Pot Limit, No Limit and Fixed Limit available. You will notice that the majority of these tables do provide an increased number of soft games with average viewed flop percentage peaking at 55%. Rake is taken at a 5% rate which is the industry standard up to $3 per pot.
Sun Poker Tournaments
Tournament players will find some incredible promotions in this room which are not only unique but often quite valuable. Sun Poker has always done a great job when it comes to giving away seat to live events or hosting major events of their own as seen over previous years. The monthly tournament schedule provides over $4 million dollars in guarantees not to mention the vast amount of freerolls, re-buys and other formats featured in their daily tournament schedule. Tournament buy-ins start as low s $1 with the maximum buy-in typically a few hundred and you will find most major events can be entered through satellites. Bounty players will also be able to take part in a special bounty series with 50% of the buy-in going towards the prize pool and the other 50% towards a bounty on your opponent. They do however have quite a different structure for bounties. For every player you knock out you will receive 75% of their bounty and the other 25% will be added to your bounty. This makes these games a little more interesting than the regular bounty tournament. Seats to live events are regularly available through satellites and qualifiers including the current promotion for the 2008 Caribbean Poker Classic, and the $10k EPT/ WPT poker packages available to be won.
Sun Poker Software
Sun Poker uses Cryptologic software and with the recent upgrade now provides a Mac compatible no download version. Players will have a very simple and easy to use software package featuring trouble-free navigating, a friend finder tool, all the statistics you could need both in the lobby and at the tables in addition to lightening fast speed. The software allows you to select the currency you wish to use and players can opt for Euros, Pounds or even US dollars. The tables allow you to take notes on your opponents, view previous hands played and provide premade betting options. Hand history files are available upon request and you can multi-table up to four games at once. Although the overall appearance of the poker room is very simple the performance level is one of the best in terms on usability and speed.
Sun Poker Support
Sun Poker provides 24/7 support through various methods. We do recommend you use the live support feature provided in the lobby since this has the fastest response time, however you will still be able to contact them through email or by phone using the numbers located on the Sun Poker website.
Sun Poker Deposit Options
Sun provides various payment options for players and processes payment through ECash Direct. Current options available include; Visa, MasterCard, Neteller, UK Debit Card, MoneyBookers, PaySafeCard, EFT ( limited to Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark players) as well as Wire Transfer and Check.
