Poker Website Reviews - Partypoker

 

How to make optimal use of the bonuses :
($100 Pokerbonus and $100 Casinobonus)

a) deposit $500 with your Moneybookers or Neteller account to get the
maximum Poker Bonus of $100

b) play the required 500 raked hands on the level you are used too
(you can play NL 10, NL 25, NL 50 or NL 100 tables to do this)

when you play at least 4 tables at the same time, the bonus is cleared fast.
On NL 10 you can play easily 9 tables at the same time, as the competition is weak

c) after you have cleared the bonus, Partypoker will add restricted
$100 to your Casino account.
This is free money.
Best usage: Play BlackJack. Enter the table with your $100 and bet all on the first hand.
When you win, leave the table and enter again with $100 and repeat it.
Do this as long as you dont lose or you have wagered $2.000.

d) after you have cleared the bonuses, you can cashout the money as long as you make
minimum amount of points (150 basic Partypoints).
Party offers frequently reload bonuses.
Reload = you have to deposit money to get the bonus.
Therefore it is better to have the money you dont need to play in your money bookers.
When you get a reload offer, you can use this money then to deposit.

Always: When you have an open bonus offer from Partypoker and you request a cashout,
the bonus offer will disappear.


(Our ratings: ***** = very good, **** = good, *** = average, ** = below average, * = bad)

Partypoker is one of the biggest sites now besides Pokerstars. At peak times you find there up to 85.000 players at the same time competing in tournaments, No-Limit and Limit cash games, freerolls and playmoney tables.
  • Cash Games Competition
    The high number of beginners and new players guarantee soft games. Although there are also many professional / semi-professional players you should find good tables at any time when you look some time and check them out.
    Low Limit = ****
    High Limit = ***

  • Tournament Competition
    The tournaments often have several 1000 of players. So there are many inexperienced players, but also a lot of professionals as the prizepools are often very high.
    High Stakes = ***
    Low Stakes = ****

  • Bonus Offers

    Sign-Up Bonus = You will get a max $100 for your first deposit. We recommend at least a $500 deposit for the full bonus. The bonus is released after 500 raked hands, but we recommend that you play at least 600 to ensure that you get future monthly
    bonus offers.
    Reload = Every month you will get individual bonus offers up to $100 for at least 1000 raked hands. You have to deposit $400 to $500 to get the bonus.

    Attention: All bonuses are released automatically. You should not withdraw any money before the bonus is released.

    Bonus offers total: *****

  • Traffic
    Online Peak = up to 85.000 players online at the same time
    Cash games = up to 10.000 to 14.500 cash game players at the same time in the evening Tournaments = sometimes more than 60.000 players in various tournaments

    Traffic total: *****

  • Rake
    Partypoker takes a relative high rake at the lower levels ($.50/$1 and $1/$2).
    The rake structure at Partypoker is like this:
    No-Limit:
    $.05 per $1 in the pot with a max rake of $3

    Limit:
    $.15/.30 and $.25/.50
    = $.05 per $1 in the pot with a max rake of $1

    $.50/1 and $1/2
    = $5/$12/$20 in the pot are raked with $.50/$.75/$1

    $2/4 to $10/20
    = $20/$30/$40/$50/$60 in the pot are raked with $1/$1.50/$2/$2.50/$3

    $15/30 to $30/60
    = $40/$55/$70/$85/$100 in the pot are raked with $1/$1.50/$2/$2.50/$3

    $50/100 and above = $1 @ $100 then $.50 per $50 $5 max
    Tournament = you pay 10% of the buy-in as rake.

    Rake total: ***

PartyPoker
Lobby Overview
  • Tournament offers
    PartyPoker has very good online tournament offers available.
    Just to mention some:

    - many Satellites and Qualifiers to Big Live Tournaments like WSOP
    - daily guaranteed tournaments (buy-ins from $5 to $100 - prizepools from $1.200 to $20.000)
    - weekly 200k /500k (sometimes 750k or 1 Mio) guaranteed tournaments (buy-in $50)
    - various freerolls

    Tournament offers total: *****

  • Customer service
    PartyPoker has a quick and experienced email/phone support. They have 24/7 support.

    The average Neteller pay out time is about 1-2 days.

    Customer service total: *****

  • Software
    The software of the PartyPoker room is fast and stable. Very good is that the tables are now freely
    sizable.

    Software total: ****

  • Financial security
    There are no reports of problems so far. Partypoker as a market leader has the best reputation.

    Financial security: *****

PartyPoker
Freeroll Tournament Overview