Party Poker        

Since the advent of massive online poker rooms, Party Poker has catapulted itself into the lead in the industry.  Through its massive advertising undertakings and sponsorship of events ranging from live poker tournaments to nine-ball billiards matches, Party Poker continues to remain the most visible site in online poker.  Some estimates have Party Poker with a fifty percent share of this highly-competitive market, ensuring that they live up to their slogan as “The World’s Largest Poker School”.  Party Poker’s parent company, Party Gaming, is the leading online gaming company on the London Stock Exchange.  Such a level of prestige and capital backing helps Party Poker assuage any visitor’s concerns about safety, security and reliability.

With this phenomenal level of popularity and exposure comes a corresponding level of site traffic.  While the massive numbers of players visiting the site every day would overwhelm most servers’ bandwidth and speed demands, Party Poker is remarkably consistent in maintaining a high level of responsiveness and uptime with all their tables, both ring games and their extremely popular tournaments.  The user-friendly game play system certainly helps new users work their way through the software and into a seat at their favorite game.  Also, their international audience can participate in games in numerous languages including major Eastern European languages such as Russian, Hungarian, Czech, Polish and Romanian.

Casual observers may think that such a hugely popular site would not have the need to create an aggressive bonus program to attract new customers.  However, Party Poker promises a substantial signup bonus for its newest participants:  a 100% match bonus up to $500.  Also, instead of waiting to complete the entire bonus to receive the matching funds, Party Poker breaks the bonus allotments into five equal increments, enabling users to get their hands on more money faster.

The level of play at Party Poker, given the level of traffic, is surprisingly good.  Of course, with these vast numbers and various tables at a wide range of limits, some soft games are still available if players are willing to chase them down.  Table action stays smooth and reliable even if you play multiple tables, which can increase profits and smooth out the highs and lows of a session.  While the graphics and presentation style are fairly simple by today’s standards, Party Poker’s interface is clean, professional and easy to use for both beginners and veterans of the online poker scene.  Of course, the ever-popular no-limit Texas Hold’em tournaments can be found in abundance at a range of buy-ins.  Prizes include both cash and trips to the biggest live poker tournaments around the world.

For new players, Party Poker has an actual “poker school” tutorial set to walk you through the actual online poker process, including rules, strategy, etiquette and a glossary of common poker terms.  For experts, the wide availability of tables, games and limits makes a trip to Party Poker a true “Party” experience.  In either case, you can’t really go wrong with playing at the acknowledged online poker leader.