Party Poker Review & Bonus

Summary (8.3)

Party Poker is the largest online poker room on the internet. During their peak hours, almost 80,000 people from all over the world can be found seated at a poker table on Party Poker. On average there is 45.000 players seated at a poker table. It’s safe to say that in this poker room, you are guaranteed to find the game of your selection at any stake.

Party Poker is not a part of any poker network. It’s a standalone poker room.

We are sad to announce that party poker will not accept US players because of the new USA regulations on bank transfers to gambling sites. We can all just hope that they will one day open up for US players, again. More information about this can be found at party pokers own press release, which you can download in a PDF format here: http://www.partygaming.com/images/docs/061001_USLegislation2.pdf

Ring game (8)

Party Poker is the leading site on the internet when it comes to ring games. Any internet poker player should own a party poker account. You can find any stake any time, with thousands of online ring game poker tables active. Their aggressive marketing makes many new players interested in the site, whereas you can find the easiest ring game players to win money from. I do recommend this site, not for its bonuses, not for its tournaments but for its great value and gross number of players at any time at the ring game tables.

Game vareity (8)

The forms of poker on internets biggest poker room, party poker is pretty standard.
PartyPoker offers these games: Texas hold em Limit, Texas hold em no limit, Omaha, Omaha high low and 7card stud. Nothing more nothing less, but their heavy load of players makes up to the lower number of offered games. You will have to search hard for less popular games such as pineapple, Razz, or draw poker.

Competition (8)

PartyPoker has an average to easy field to play against. Since their table selection is so big, you should definitely spend some time finding a table with players that you consider weak. If you search for a while, you are most likely to find one that suits you.

Loyalty (8)

PartyPoker has player points, for these points you can buy items such as cards, poker books and clothing. They do not offer rake back in any form, but on rare occasions you can purchase real money for player points at a low rate.

Support (9)

Party Poker has the most rapid responses on the market. Their support department alone has over 1400 employees. You can expect an answer from 0 to 3 hours at any time night or day. They have both email support and telephone support. Cash outs are also the fastest in the industry. A Neteller cash out usually only takes 2-3 hours, credit cards withdrawals takes 2 to 3 days.

Cash (9)

Deposits can be made by all major credit card brands visa, MasterCard and diners club. Alternative deposit methods are Neteller, ewire, FPSpassport, PhoneConnect card, pay-play entropay, Bank transfers, bank wire transfers and moneybookers.com and click&buy. If you want to make withdrawals, they have the fastest ones I have ever seen. Any payment to or from party poker can also be easily tracked if you email or call their support department.

Software (8)

The Party poker software can be a bit massive for the beginner since there are so many different lists and selections. To help the beginners there are interactive tutorials over almost every list and function in the software. There are even tutorials inside the software that can improve your gameplay! Be sure to look around for help signs and do not hesitate to ask their great customer support, as you will get an answer to most problems very fast. Behind the player nameplates there is a poker avatar, if you are male you get a male avatar, if you are female you will get a female avatar. So you can actually see if you play versus a male or female. The graphics are traditional and the poker table is viewed from a top-down perspective. It’s rare to see that the software malfunctions, the ring games never crashes. If something does goes wrong it is the tournaments, but it is safe to say that you must be very unlucky to play in a tournament that is cancelled due to a technical error.

Tournament (8)

Even if party poker is one of the largest sites, it does not offer the best multi table tournaments. Poker Stars actually have a bigger and better range of multi table tournaments. However, if you are looking for SitAndGo tournaments, you have found the right place. Every 5 second at any time of the day, there is a new 10 player tournament started from buy-ins $5 up to $500. For the real sitngo grinder this is a paradise. You can easily have up to 10 SitAndGo´s running at the same time, all with different players. Party poker also offers the popular step tournaments where you win an entry fee into a higher step tournament. If you manage to win all steps you will get to play the final step where some serious money can be won. This is similar to a multi table tournament but when you completed a step tournament you can choose for yourself when you want to play the next stage/level whenever it fits.

Rake (8)

The Party Poker tournament rake is high, but the ring game rake is a bit more like average compared to the internet poker industry. Their promotions, active support and the large number of players to play against compensates somewhat for the rake you pay at party poker.

Signup bonus (8)

We currently offer a $20 bonus, if you deposit $20 you will get a total of $40 to play for!
For players who wants to deposit more, there is a 20% deposit bonus. This means that if you deposit $300 to the site, you will get a bonus of $60. You can get up to $75 with this type of bonus.

Use this link to get the $20 bonus if you deposit $20 (total of $40)
Use this link to receive a 20% deposit bonus up to $75 bonus.

Promotions (7)

Party pokers has a large number of promotion tournaments for both new players and old ones. We recommend that you spend some time looking through the promotions they run under the “special” tab under multi table tournaments.

Security (10)

Party poker uses a secure connection with encryption and their software is the most monitored servers in the industry. You can be safe that the money you deposit to PartyPoker is not going to get stolen by a hacker or a cheating player. Party poker has a large workforce of security employees that monitors and keep party poker safe and regulated at all times.