09.26.07
Playersonly Poker Room Review
Worlds biggest poker room’s like Party Poker and Pacific Poker may have stopped accepting U.S players but the fastest growing poker room “playersonly” is still accepting U.S players, established in the year 2006 on cake poker network with software designed by some reputed poker players with excellent graphics and a really great playing experience.
Playersonly room established on cake poker network is well known for juicy competition. They do accept U.S credit cards deposits. The playersonly poker room has grown extremely well over a period of time with very less competition in games, so it makes player’s to win cash or prizes at their fingure tips coz majority of players are rookies.
When we put a close eye on software and graphic’s, they are excellent and amazing and it makes one very comfortable while playing poker online. the software displayses :- 1) table stats, 2) quick play, 3) multi-table ability for over ten tables simultaneously and other interesting features.
Playersonly poker room offers sign up bonus of 100% upto $650 for every players that open a real money account and a 10% reload bonus every time an existing player make a deposit.
Getting towards their customer support they have one of the best support in the gaming industry with 24/7 ( round the clock) e-mail, chat and phone support
09.19.07
WTO May Force U.S To Legalise Internet Gambling.
According to Newsweek article, United States have to legalize online gambling in order to solve the word trade matter and getting billions of dollars fine and export sanctions.
The article, further added that if the American govt does not resolve the trade dispute other countries may gain the ability to sell billions of dollars of pirated movies, music and computer software without paying the copyright owners.
So, this could be a danger jing bell for US govt.
09.10.07
Pacific Poker Mac & Linux Review
Pacific poker is one of the oldest and premier gaming companies in the world. It is a part of Gibraltar based Cassava Enterprises which is operated by Casino-on-net. During the past one year there has been a tremendous growth in pacific poker business. Pacific Poker’s parent 888 has been around for a long time they also have the biggest online casino room.It draw players from world wide region and that is why they offer different language support like Swedish, German, Italian followed by English. It has become the most desired poker room for many Texas holdem poker players because the skilled and tight players can earn good and fast cash from pacific poker tables.
Pacific Poker’s software is mediocre at best, the software is slow, graphics are dull and they don’t let you play at multiple tables at the same time. However, they have done quite a bit to improve the software in 2005 but it will take some more time before they start competing with the big guys like Party and Pokerstars. They also provide Macintosh compatible no download version of their software. They have also provided an attractive flash tutorial for the players who are interested in learning Texas holdem poker.
When we put a close eye on the traffic it is around 1900 to 2400 real money ring game players at peak hours and majority of players opt for Texas holdem table and remaining players concentrate on Omaha hi/lo and 7 card stud hi. There has been a consistent growth in the tournament traffic as well and there are about 3900 to 4400 real money players during peak hours.
Pacific poker offers a great signup bonus of 25% up to $100 and the best thing about them is they immediately credit your account so that you can start playing games and poker tournaments which is very rarely seen in other top poker rooms. They also throw some free roll tournaments, satellites and guaranteed prize pool tournaments which can be seen via our poker tournaments section. Interestingly you can also win a seat at their weekly $200,000 mega tournament through a freeroll.
Their support leaves a lot to be desired and while they do have a phone and e-mail support it only helps if your questions are basic, they don’t have a very knowledgeable support team which makes it very difficult if you have a complex issue to resolve.
So with all these issues why even play there you ask? Well it’s because the competition on the site is really soft, especially at the lower limit tables.
Their rake is higher than industry standard which is obviously not a very good thing. Payment options are standard, however they say they need 5 days to process the cash out which is quite ridiculous really, to be fair to them though, they rarely take 5 days to process it and in most cases you should receive your money much sooner.
09.06.07
Internet Gambling Regulaton Hits PartyGaming
Ever since internet gambling was banned in united States many poker rooms took a huge blow on their profits and one among them was PartyGaming so called parent company. Party Poker ,Party Bingo, Party gammon and Party Bets are child companies .
PartyGaming recent reports shows how hard they were hit by the gambling law in U.S with a loss of more than 47 million dollars that was for the first half of the 2007.
The profit for the same period of last year that is for 2006 was $320.5 million, while this year it is $277.4 million. Despite that, CEO of Party Gaming Mitch Garber was positive when speaking about the company’s future.
