Pokerroom Bonus

SITE:

Poker Room.com is a mid-level site that has a lot of traffic at low limits (their lowest games are $1/$2) and high limits ($25/$50). The five-year-old site has more than 3.5 million members in more than 120 countries circulating between $10 million and $12 million US every day. It is the fifth-largest real money poker site and the second-largest "play" money site. Players log on PokerRoom.com and can join for free. Some 90 per cent choose "play money" mode while the rest play with real money. Even though the industry growth was 630% in 2003 and slipped to 154% last year, PokerRoom managed a 323 % gain.

The site also has a "Responsible Gaming" filter which you can use to make sure your gambling cannot get out of control by setting your customized deposit limits for daily, weekly, and monthly deposits as well as a feature which has a 7-day or 6-month cooling off period where you cannot logon.

On Game, the Swedish company that operates Poker Room, had revenues of $60 million in 2004, with net profits of $20 million. The site's computer servers are located in Montreal, monitored by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission. Canada was chosen because of its fast Internet routing and because 85 per cent of PokerRoom's users are in North America. Canadians represent almost 10 per cent of the players at the site with 28 per cent from Toronto, 11 per cent from Vancouver, 11 per cent from Edmonton and 11 per cent from Calgary.

BONUS:

They usually offer a $100 bonus which takes a long time to earn.

TOURNAMENTS:

Poker Room's tournies are decent but the biggest appeal are their freerolls where beginners can win real money. They also offer daily freeroll multi-table tournaments and special real money multi-table tourneys with $2,500 added to the prize pool where the entry fee is only $1 (one dollar)!

PROMOTIONS:

They have a $50 refer-a-friend and $8,500 given away every week in spot cash giveaways.

SOFTWARE:

Their software is decent. Players can play multiple tables at once and create private tables to play on. The software is also Mac friendly so non-Windows users looking for a site to play on may want to try this one out. You can play poker on the their downloadled version or their Java version of their software. Some of the rooms are high-speed which is good for those who are impatient. The software also has hotkeys for people who don't like to use the mouse.
F1 = Fold
F2 = Check
F3 = Bet

They have also recently made it so you can play their games over a cell phone.

RAKE STRUCTURE

The rake is defined below for each game which we spread and is calculated as 5% of the matched bets in the pot. We do not charge rake if there isn't a flop ("no flop, no drop").

Structured games (limit)

$0.25-$0.5 to $0.5-$1
$0.05 is raked for every $1 in the pot up to a maximum of $1.50.
$1-$2
$0.25 is raked for every $5 in the pot up to a maximum of $1.50.

$2-$4 to $50-$100

Number of players	$20 pot	$40 pot	$60 pot	Max rake
2-3	-	-	-	$1
4-5	$1	$1	-	$2
6-10	$1	$1	$1	$3

Pot-limit and no-limit

$0.25-$0.5 to $0.5-$1.0
$0.05 is raked for every $1 in the pot up to the max rake (see below).

Number of players	Max rake
2-3	$1
4-5	$2
6-10	$3

$1-$2 to $2-$4
$0.25 is raked for every $5 in the pot up to the max rake (see below).

Number of players	Max rake
2-3	$1
4-5	$2
6-10	$3

$5-$10 and up
$1 is raked for every $20 in the pot up to the max rake (see below).

Number of players	Max rake
2-3	$1
4-5	$2
6-10	$3

COMMENTS:

Soyuz
September 23, 2005
No way this site is rigged - been playing here for months and as another poster mentioned the action is fast, fluent and realistic. Of course there will be bad beats but that's the nature of the game and hardly unique to this site.

offsuit
September 17, 2005
I also feel that it's rigged. I am an extremely tight player that has seen more bad beats in the past month than I have even seen in my life. 3 and 4 outers hit on the river all the time. I suggest not to play here

edwince
September 17, 2005
horrible. this site is so rigged. i go allin with AA flop is A33 the other player had pocket 3s. Now thats rigged. The Sit And Gos shorthanded are all right but they disconnect you when you get a good hand. I would suggust not to play here.

Crazy Lemon
August 19, 2005
One of the very best. The rakes at lower limits and lower entry fee tournaments are lower than most. Great Hold Em and halfway decent Omaha games.

papareg
August 6, 2005
given its the only place i have played. i can say this place is great its jave and the bad beats are not there. the people are cool and theres a vote off option if people get to mouthy all in all a good place.

acegirl
July 7, 2005
graphics are great, site is nice -- I'm not a big "site is rigged" person but the beats I've seen have been crazy. AA vs KK - flopped K, one outers caught, full house beat by quads, AA VS 3-6 336 on flop, and that was just within the last two days. Is it rigged or is it just bad players making bad calls and catching? I don't know. I'm considering switching sites if I see much more of the crazy outdraws.

Nobody
June 12, 2005
Guys, please stop this nonsense about rigged sites. The only (proven) way sites stole player's money is much simpler than making biased shuffle - PokerSpot was the most prominent example. I'm 100% sure that _none_ of the big rooms is intentionally rigged; as for Stars' - I had doubts about them at some point (after a bad beat streak obviously) and asked them to send me the whole history of my play there; when I've got it, I made all kinds of statistical analysis with it (and I have a degree in maths) - and came up with nothing beyond statistical expectations. So until somebody will provide a mathematical proof (rather than emotional "he got one-outer, it should NEVER happen, at least not to me") - I won't even consider such a possibility. Face it, guys - bad beats is an integral part of poker. And those who cannot deal with it, just should not play poker, ever - there are other ways to have fun in life.

vodkashot
May 1, 2005
I've played all the biggies - party, ultimate, stars, absolute, pacific, etc. - and hands down this place is the best. I'm not a big "online poker is rigged" guy, but Poker Room has the most realistic action in my opinion. You rarely see AA vs. KK (happens ALL THE TIME on ultimate and absolute), the consistent monster flops, and one person dominating a table with incredible cards for stretches at a time. So I think Poker Room rewards the patient and skilled player. Also, I thought the graphics and characters were lame before I joined, but now i find them really pleasing to the eye and easy to look at for extended periods. The layout of the betting buttons as well as the lobby are easy and intuitive. Only drawback is you can't really use your player points besides on one big weekly freeroll. Anyway, I left Poker Room once and remembered how inferior all the others are. Never again! (If you sign up, I'd appreciate if you'd use "vodkashot" as your reference. Thanks!)

micduff
February 22, 2005
graet graphics easily make $20 plus per hour use code8598 and you will soon see a profit who needs to work ?

deez_nutz4u
January 18, 2005
OK software. The one time I needed support I couldn't get it. Tourney's often freeze. Their reward points expire very quickly. On the up side: Free instacash, quick cashouts. I used to call pokerroom home but got sick of my points exiring weekly, esp. since I paid a lot of rake there. I've since moved to JetSet.

Cheesemuffin
January 17, 2005
If you are looking to win money in a freeroll tourny, dont play here. Even if you place in the money, you still have to make a deposit, play real money, and earn enough points to be able to use the money you won. The freerolls are basically for play chips that u cant access,, sign me up Go to Bugsy's Club, and you'll never leave!

kk.
July 7, 2004
A popular site. Tons of low-limit games going. Good freerolls. Games are loose enough to win. Their recent upgrade was very nice.

PokerFoos
PokerRoom May 27, 2004
Gets good rating for being able to play on a Java-based client. Also, some of the avatars are hot. Can't choose your own, though.