Party Poker Review

Party Poker at one point was the largest poker room online till the UIGEA came in to effect. Since then they have become the top European poker room and have rebuilt their player base once again to a very substantial size. One thing Party has always maintained is their offers in tournaments, promotions and bonuses.

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Introduction
The room hosts over $5 million dollars a month in guaranteed games, supports some of the fastest Sit and Go tournaments found anywhere online and has a solid amount of activity at the ring games. Other added features include a Bad Beat Jackpot, a casino client for blackjack and slots and instant cash reload bonuses.

Skill Level
Party Poker has always held a reputation for the weakest players online and this is still present even to date. It’s not unusual to find viewed flop percentages peaking as high as 60% or in some cases higher in the ultra micro tables. Most players should be able to profit from this room.

Party Poker Ring Games
Ring games are available in your standard variety with Texas Holdem and Omaha the main source for traffic. You can still find some Stud games, however these games usually do not have much traffic after peak hours. The games vary between no limit, pot limit and fixed limit with stakes starting as little as 1p/2p up to €25/€50. Most of the games available so see a steady mix of traffic and you shouldn’t have a problem finding an active game even at the highest limit offered. Omaha is quite active in most stakes up to $3/$6 with the occasional $5/$10.

Party Tournaments
Party Poker tournaments are always loaded with huge prize pools and the majority of the live based events are their own signature promotions. This includes the current Party Poker VI Millions, which is allowing players to enter through qualifiers and satellites along with direct buyins to win an eight day Mediterranean Cruise along with a Main event buyin for their Million Dollar guaranteed tournament. The site itself can easily see over 60,000+ real money tournament players which is why you will find a great turnout to the weekend $200,000 GP. They have a pretty extensive daily scheduled filled with freerolls, freezeouts, re-buys, guaranteed games along with turbo tournaments. Sit and Go games are available starting as little as $2 and you can select between heads up, shorthanded, and full tables along with time based games that range from your standard 12 minute intervals to super turbo games with blinds increasing every 5 hands. Other unique features within the tournament line up are the new Hellkat tournaments along with the ability to chop pots once you are at the final table in an MTT.

Party Poker Software
Party Poker software has been designed for top level performance and playability. The graphics feature a clean looking lobby and 3 dimensional avatars. The lobby is simple to use offers great navigation and you will find all your game statistics not only in the lobby menu itself but when clicking on each game individually you will also open up the Game Info box providing moiré details to the games. Players can also find table stats that are standard within most rooms. An instant replay feature is available at the tables for both ring and tournaments games allowing you to replay the previous hand in an instant replay which is animated. Multi tabling is available with up to eight tables in use. Players can multi table in full view mode or quickly switch to cascading tiles.

Player Support
Support is available through live chat, email and if you are in need of assistant immediately you can contact them through the toll free number available on their website. Response time is always quick and the team is efficient in handling questions.

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