PokerRoom
PokerRoom is joined with the Ongame network that is one of the largest poker networks in the world. You can expect a wide based player base but one that is mainly European. Due to the legislation in the U.S. banning credit card companies from collecting payments made to wagers, the PokerRoom has suspended all U.S. real money game play.
You can choose to download PokerRoom or not, the download version offers 3D graphics, attractive avatars, and many other great functions. The software is of high quality, stable and safe. The interface of the site very user friendly and creates a good feel for the player.
The PokerRoom and the Ongame network are both growing in size very quickly and increasing colume each day to the site. As of Novemeber 2008 the real money game statistics shown that 9,000 ring game players and 45,000 tournament players were online during peak hours.
You can find statisitics of hands for each game type on the site, giving you a clearer advantage over your cards. The PokerRoom also offer a completely automated import of your Hold Em’ tournament and ring game data to Poker Tracker. You can even attend an online poker school for beginners at the PokerRoom, offering some very helpful and friendly advice for game play.
New depositors will receive three entries in to the daily welcome tournament.
PokerRoom is the largest site on the Ongame network and offers great cash game and tournament volume, awesome high value promotions, and attractive software. Players can enjoy a very smooth game play with a quick pace, allowing for a more exciting game.
If you are looking for high stakes action, PokerRoom is the place to be, you can find some huge jackpots at various game tables across the site. You can even play real money mobile poker on your cell phone. PokerRoom offers live hand odds for all-in situations and in tournaments, hot key buttons for in game fast action reflex and many other great features.
The downside to the site is that the lobby is somewhat scattered with information, making it a little tough to navigate. You are not offered mixed games, and U.S. players are not accepted in to real money gaming.
Mac players will enjoy the fact that they can play the java version with out any special installs.
PokerRoom focuses mainly on six handed tables and the sites traffic is more concentrated towards texas Hold Em’ tournament area, but the increasing popularity of other games such as Omaha Hi-Lo, more traffic has been geared towards those tables as well.
PokerRoom offers many great promotions, bonuses, as well as money added touraments, freerolls, and qualifiers to major poker events.
PokerRoom offers a variety of game play including:
- Texas Hold Em’
- Omaha
- Omaha Hi-Lo
- Seven Card Stud
- Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo
- Five Card Draw
The games vary between:
- No-Limit
- Pot-Limit
- Fixed-Limit
- Full Tables
- Shorthanded Tables
- Heads Up Tables
PokerRoom overall offers a great place to find some good action, a diversity in game play and software that is stable, attractive, and safe.