Poker Room Poker Review

As part of the Ongame network, PokerRoom is one of the older online poker rooms and has already established a solid player base and is recognised for its high standards of play. The software is one of the finest out there with clean, crisp graphics and easy to use functionality. The software comes in 3 different versions, download, on-line, no download for Mac users and even uses a platform for use on mobile phones.  All versions run, smoothly and quickly which allows pleasant and uninterrupted game play. Tables can be customised to your personal choice with options on colours, sounds, avatars, player notes and game history using downloadable as well as in game. PokerRoom also offers a great statistical analysis of your game and an open database of the hands played at the site.

There is also a unique ‘hot-key’ feature that allows you to use the keyboard instead of the mouse during game play.  With the variety of games offered you will find all the usual suspects at both limit and no limit tables. Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud, Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo and Five-Card Draw are all offered and are available with no limit, pot limit, fixed limit, full table, short-handed and heads up options. The traffic is, as usual concentrated in the texas hold‘em rooms but I never had a problem finding people playing and a seat available at any of the games I wished to play at the time. Real-money player statistics as of May 2008 show 9,000 ring-game players at peak hours and 45,000 tournament players at peak hours, which are very healthy numbers for online poker rooms. The lower tables are fairly easy with fish players and easy wins. The mid-stakes tables are excellent for making some easy money, a gold mine for those looking for loose competition and a quick bankroll.  As in all online poker rooms, as the value of the stake goes up the quality of player rises with it, so for those looking for some real competition and strong opponents, you will find them at the $5/$10 stake tables and up.

The selection of tournaments offered is a wide ranged and well populated. The level of play is very decent and, again, the higher the stakes, the higher the skill level of the competition. The tournaments are offered frequently with weekly $25,000 and $50,000 tournaments as well as the many qualifiers to the big live and online poker events like the World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour. The selection for free rolls is not very good compared with other online poker rooms. They have a couple of completely free tourneys each day but they are limited to 3000 players and very difficult to get into. Unless you are there and ready as soon as registration starts, you don’t stand a very good chance of getting a seat.

The poker promotions offered at Poker-Room are as usual, %50 up to £100 first deposit bonus, refer-a-friend and loyalty programme which is tiered to different levels, as you collect more and graduate to a new ‘level’ the range of extras offered is greater. Aside from the promotions that are ongoing, there are constantly new and exciting features being added. Currently there many special qualifying tourneys going on for the WSOP and WPT live events plus a series of free rolls which could lead to an all expenses paid trip to play live in a Spanish final.

The customer service offered at PokerRoom is very helpful, friendly and easy. There is an email support route which is not as quick as it could be, but you will get a helpful response to your question, 24/7 live chat is a good option, you will immediately be conversing with customer support and they can help you right then and there. There are also free phone numbers for over 9 different countries where you will find help at the other end.

As far as online poker rooms go, PokerRoom is one of the top, established online poker rooms available and a very decent choice for somewhere to make your own