Party Poker Review

Party Poker Summary

(Please Note: This site does not accept players from the USA)

Party Poker is one of the elite online poker rooms available, offering quality promotions, good game variety and excellent customer support on a fast, reliable software platform. Though they have lost their status as the largest online poker room on the Internet, which occurred when they stopped accepting US players due to recent changes in US legislation, Party Poker still houses an exceptionally large player base. Good promotions and an esteemed tournament schedule encourage their members, new and old, to return for more. New players are encouraged to try out the free play poker until they feel they've become accustomed to the games before moving on to play for real money.

Party Poker Key Points,
$25 Free When You Use Bonus Code 25SUPER
30% Up To $150 With Bonus Code 150SUPER
2nd Largest Poker Room Online
Nice Clean, Smooth and Fast Software
Does Not Accept USA Players.

Party Poker Deposit Bonus

Internet-Poker.co.uk Players are offered two unique bonuses for party poker.

$25 Free When You Use Bonus Code 25SUPER
30% Up To $150 With Bonus Code 150SUPER

In order to get the $25 free cash, you must make a deposit of $50 or more and play a small amount of hands.

Also, new players who sign up a real money account are invited to join in the daily $100 Rookie Freerolls. New players will have this option for the first 30 days of account activation. Registration is not automatic for the Rookie Freerolls or the New Player Lucky Dollar tournaments, so don't forget to register. Registration closes 5 minutes prior to the respective event.

Party Poker Player Rewards

Loyalty is well rewarded at the online poker room, which frequently delivers free cash bonuses, automatically deposited into the player's account, at random. The cash bonuses are typically small, but free is free, right? Players also earn Player Points from the moment they begin playing for real money. Points can used to enter special tournaments and freerolls and to buy merchandise from the Party Poker Store, which is regarded by many as the best online poker loyalty-rewards store on the Internet, offering a huge selection of unique, quality merchandise. Points are accumulated by playing raked hands. The higher the table limit, the more points you will collect. For instance, in Fixed Limit Hold'Em, playing 20 raked hands at $0.05/$0.10 awards .75 points, rising on a sliding scale to $100/$200, which earns 35 points. VIP Levels (Jack, Queen, King and Ace) are achieved by collecting points. The higher your level, the more points you will collect.

PartyPoker's Player loyalty program is fittingly called PartyPoints. The PartyPoints program consists of 4 stair step type levels, Jacks, Queens, Kings, and Aces. As you earn PartyPoints, your level of membership increases up to the higher card values. Whenever you play, at any of the PartyGaming sites, you are earning PartyPoints! This includes; PartyPoker, PartyBets, PartyCasino, PartyBingo, and PartyGammon.

Points are earned based on the number of raked hands played, the level in which those raked hands are played at and each players current PartyPoints level. Players at the Ace level have achieved a 4 times multiplier, thus earning points at four times the rate of the other levels, Kings earn at three times, Queen's at two, and so on.
PartyPoints can be used to play in special PartyPoints freeroll poker tournaments, exchanged for real money entry into certain tournaments and used to purchase gift certificates.

To earn your way into the next membership level, you will need the following PartyPoints:

Jacks: All Players are automatically Jacks.
Queens: 150 PartyPoints
Kings: 2,000 PartyPoints
Aces: 6,000 PartyPoints

Party Poker Games Available

A nice variety of games can be found at Party Poker including Texas Hold'Em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven Card Stud and Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo, all available in Fixed Limit, No Limit and Pot Limit. Short-handed, full table and heads up action can be found in all varieties of games. With such a high player traffic volume, players find ongoing action in every game type. No Limit and Pot Limit stakes range from as low as $0.02/$0.04 to $25/$50, while Limit games start at $0.05/$0.10 scaling up to $100/$200.

Party Poker Player Traffic

Party Poker boasts one of the largest online poker player databases, formerly the largest available before American players had to be turned away due to current US laws. You can find games underway in all varieties limits and stakes, especially during peak traffic hours. Party Poker offers as many as 60,000 poker players during peak traffic hours, and as many as 20,000 during off peak hours, mostly concentrated on Limit and No Limit Hold'Em. Tournament traffic at peak hours averages 50,000. Due to mass marketing and a highly successful affiliate program.

Party Poker Tournament Info

Freerolls come in abundance, offering at least 3 tournaments a day with prize pools anywhere from $250 to $1,500. Some of the freeroll tournaments require a predetermined number of Player Points to enter, including daily freerolls for $500 requiring 100 Player Points and a $1,500 freeroll requiring 250 points. Freerolls are highly populated and most offer loose competition, awarding at least $50,000 a month at this online poker room. Party Poker also hosts an array of guaranteed tournaments and qualifiers, the most popular of which is the qualifier to the $200,000 guaranteed, awarding entry fee of $215 for as little as $11. Tournaments are mostly Limit and No Limit Hold'Em, though other games are available as well, with buy-ins starting as low as $1 and going up into the hundreds. All tournaments at Party Poker reveal moderately loose competition, though the larger buy-ins can become extremely aggressive towards the final table.

Party Poker Software

Party Poker became independent internet poker site in October of 2005, allowing them to play at their own independent tables instead of sharing their player base with 4 other sites.

Party Poker has upgraded their software several times throughout the last few years. Updates this last year included a simple and easy to follow poker room navigation system. Graphics have improved significantly, and playability is more than decent allowing more than 100,000 online poker players to play simultaneously.

Players to the flop percentages and the hands played per hour have also been included in recent updates along with the already existent ability to look at the average pot size for the past 20 hands, make player notes and have instant hand history. The software is still however lacking the flop call percentage rates

The software, now available in 13 languages, is very fast and quite stable. the graphics are classic and well liked by most players, as are the new abundant avatar selections (though you are still unable to upload your own) added during a recent update in 2007. Sound and animation can be toggled on/off. The software provides standard statistical data, such as note taking during play and lobby stats like average pot size and hands played per hour.

Multi-table play allows for up to 12 simultaneous tables, much higher than most online poker rooms,and more tables, than most can handle. PartyPoker's software features sounds and graphics designed to alert players while multi-tabling. One unique feature, especially liked by multi-table players, is the 'auto-resize' function, which automatically resizes all table windows to fit across your monitor. This function is not available for Omaha and Seven Card Stud games, though there is a 4-table limit on them anyhow.

Party Poker Promotions

Consistent promotions are presented by Party Poker, including special guaranteed tournaments with large prize pools, a Friday Special, Super Weekdays tournaments and the Step Challenge, where players step up through 6 levels of sit'n'go action to claim their portion of nearly $5,000 in prize money. The Bad Beat Jackpot awards a large sum of cash to a player who has a bad beat, four 8's or better, and still loses to an opponent. Party Poker also offers occasional reload bonuses of 15-25% up to $100-$200. The Refer-A-Friend program rewards players in several ways, depending on the promotional bonus code your friend chooses to sign up with. For the bonus code options, check out Party Poker Bonus Code.

Party Poker Deposit & Withdrawal Methods

Players may select from a wide variety of deposit/withdraw options, including credit cards. However, Party Poker reminds players that certain credit card companies may decline fund transfers to/from online gambling operations, therefore if a credit card transaction is denied, this may be the cause. In this case, Party Poker recommends choosing any of the other payment methods available.

Deposit Methods: Visa, MasterCard, Diners Club, Visa Electron, Maestro, Switch, Solo, PaySafeCard, EPS, WebMoney, MisterCash, iDeal, Laser, Click&Buy, Click2Pay, GiroPay, Ukash, eWire, ELV, Electronic Transfer, UseMyBank, BPAY, MoneyBookers, EntroPay, NETeller, Citadel, MyCitadel, Bank Transfer and Bank Wire.

Withdrawal Methods: Visa, Maestro, Switch, Solo, Electronic Transfer, WebMoney, NETeller, Click2Pay, BPAY, MoneyBookers, Bank Wire, Check by Mail and Check by Courier (FedEx, DHL and UPS).

Party Poker Customer Service

Customer support is offered 24/7 by telephone and e-mail. The support staff is very knowledgeable in all facets of the online poker room, including promotions, account, technical difficulties, etc. Telephone support is extremely fast, providing resolutions in typically less than a minute. E-mail support is very reliable, but doesn't match up to the speed of phone support. The FAQ page provides a searchable database to answer general questions, but can seem a bit scattered at times. The more common a question is, the more likely you are to find the answer, but if using the search option, you may have to skim through a list of results before the proper answer is revealed. Take our advice - toll-free numbers are provided for Canada, Europe and several other countries - use them!