Summary
Party Poker is one of the larger site regarding online poker rooms in the world. Although they no longer permits any US players for real money games. They have great promotions for their annual Party Poker Millions together with other tournaments, a weekly guaranteed $300,000 and many different freerolls. Their variety in games is good but not excellent, although the software is really reliable if you enjoy playing some good tournaments from time to time. This is definitely a good poker room for you to play at.
Software
You can either download their client to your computer but you can also play it in the browser as a ‘non-download version´ with can be used for Mac or Linux players. The software is available in many different languages. They have a good layout and the games goes rather smooth. They update their software frequently to ensure and keep safe against, security holes and stability, with almost zero downtime. Some of the functions they got is, hand history, statistics and table auto-resize. One thing that is unique to Party Poker is their Deal Making facility which allows players in a tournament to agree to a deal at the final table and split the chips. The software was redesigned in September 2008 and this provided additional features such as clearer graphics. Players is also able to change and customize their images.Unfortunately, Party Poker only provides average pot size statistics for ring games so they are a bit lacking in this area.
Traffic
Party Poker sees high levels of players so there are many fishes to be fished in here. You can find action going on almost every type of game. At peak hours there is somewhere around 9,500 players ring game players, and at tournaments 60,000 more.
Available Games and Stakes
Party Poker has a variety of games including all variations of Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven Card Stud and Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo. Games come in no limit, pot limit and fixed limit and are available in full table, shorthanded and heads up tables.
Party Poker got ring games, single table tournaments and multi table tournaments. Stakes range from $0.05/$0.10 to $250/$500 in fixed limit games and $0.02/$0.04 to $25/$50 in pot limit and no limit games.
Support and Money Payment Options
You can contact Party Poker but Phone or Email. 24 Hours a day seven days a week. Telephone support is not available to US customers; however they are able to contact Party Poker personnel via email.
Party Poker offers a variety of payment methods such as credit cards, debit cards, Click2Pay, ClickandBuy, FirePay, Moneybookers, bank transfer, wire transfer, Ukash and Paysafecard. If you live in Australia, you are also able to use BPay.
