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POKER ROOM REVIEW - POKER.COM

Poker.com is a relatively new poker room with their own proprietary software that primarily caters for the low stake games and beginners to poker with plenty of daily freerolls for beginners where they can hone their poker tournaments skills. Please be warned that you will need Macromedia Flash 8 to be installed onto your computer before you can play at Poker.com. However, once you have gotten over that hurdle, the software is unique to Poker.com and have a lot of innovative features such as % of winning hand when you are all in in a No Limit game, unique player avatars, labels when it is your turn and much more. Good table stats in the lobby as well as easy to access player statistics. We like the software a lot once they have ironed out some minor glitches and with the features and player support functionality, Poker.com will be a very decent poker room to play at.

Poker.com has pretty soft games. Most of the volume is in the micro limit and no-limit Texas Hold'em games where the view flop percentage is normally in the 40's and 50's. The players are quite passive making it relatively easy for a decent player to win. Added to that are speedy withdrawals making it ideal for a shark to make a tidy profit and quickly withdraw the winnings! Peak player volumes is up to around 2,000 players which is quite low overall, but not bad for a relatively new poker room. HAS THE PONTENTIAL TO BECOME ONE OF OUR FAVOURITE POKER ROOMS! when technical glitches have been ironed out and greater player volumes.

POKER.COM - FEATURES
POSITIVE FEATURES NEGATIVE FEATURES
  • Easy to use interface (see below)
  • Large numbers of freeroll tournaments with a $100 freeroll every 2 hours
  • $3,000 player freeroll (250 raked hands required)
  • Prompt payment of cash outs without any fuss
  • Easy to switch between tables when playing at more than one table
  • When all in, each person's chance of winning is shown as a % at each turn
  • 50% up to $200 initial sign up bonus
  • Need to install Macromedia Flash 8
  • Only Texas Holdem and Omaha
  • Low player volumes
  • No high stakes games
  • Technical glitches from time to time
  • Lobby is a bit confusing and takes a bit of time to get used to
  • No 24/7 telephone support nor live chat
POKER.COM - POKER VARIANTS
Poker.com supports the following forms of poker:
  • Texas Hold Em
  • Omaha
POKER.COM - INTERFACE
Poker.com's software and player base are unique as they have proprietary software and network. The graphics are nice and clear and the functionality is good. Poker.com offers lobby music which we find annoying. An overview of the site is easily obtained in the lobby, which displays stats such as average pot, hands player per hour, and viewed flop percentage. On the negative side, there are some small glitches making the playability less than perfect although the playing tempo is still decent. When traffic has been built up and some software updates are done, this will be a quite nice room to play at.
POKER.COM - PLAYER TABLES

Very unique look and feel - very different from other poker rooms. However, the graphics is top notch and plenty of features to assist the player such as instant hand histories, win statistics, note taking support, and the option to tag players as, for example, "sharks" or "fish". Easy to switch between tables if you are playing at more than one table at the same time with tabs of the tables that you are playing at at the top of the player interface. Unique player avatars can be used which show up beside the name plate. Plenty of different sounds to assist you when it is your turn. It is easy to see who is in the hand and who are not. In our view, one of the most user friendly player interfaces at the moment anywhere. Fix the glitches and this could easily move up our rankings very quickly.

POKER.COM - RING GAMES

Rather low volumes at the moment but bear in mind that it is a relatively new poker room and that Poker.com has its own network and does not share the player base with anyone else. Only Texas Holdem and Omaha are supported at the moment, and most of the action is at the Texas Holdem tables, primarily at the micro stake levels. As Poker.com is catering a lot towards the novice to online poker, it is an excellent place to make money for an experienced player.

POKER VARIANT FORM STAKE IN US$ MAX NO. PLAYER
Texas Hold Em Limit 0.02/0.04 to 10/20 2, 6 or 10
Texas Hold Em Pot Limit 0.02/0.04 to 25/50 2, 6 or 10
Texas Hold Em No Limit 0.02/0.04 to 25/50
2, 6 or 10
Omaha Limit 0.10/0.20 to 30/60 2, 6 or 10
Omaha Pot Limit 0.10/0.25 to 25/50 2, 6 or 10
Omaha No Limit 0.10/0.25 to 25/50 2, 6 or 10
POKER.COM - TOURNAMENT

Poker.com has far more players in their tournaments than in their cash games. This is understandable with the multitude of freerolls on offer like the bi-hourly $100 freeroll which is free to enter for all. For the frequent player, there are some huge freerolls such as the weekly $20,000 and bi-weekly $4,000 freeroll as well as the daily $3,000. The guaranteed tournaments cater more for the low stake players as shown below but recently Poker.com have introduced a $10,000 Guaranteed tournament on Sundays.

TOURNAMENT ENTRY ENTRY FEE FREQUENCY + START TIME AVE. NO. OF PLAYERS MAX. PLAYERS
$20,000 Freeroll
No Limit Holdem
FREE
2,000 comp pts.
Sundays
14.00 EST/19.00 GMT
N/A N/A
$4,000 Freeroll
No Limit Holdem
FREE
1,200 comp pts.
Mondays and Wednesday
18.00 EST/21.00 GMT
N/A N/A
$10,000 Guaranteed
No Limit Holdem
$50 + $5 Sundays
16.00 EST/21.00 GMT
N/A N/A
$2,000 Guaranteed
No Limit Holdem
$20 + $2 Daily
20.00 EST/01.00 GMT
N/A N/A
$1,000 Guaranteed
No Limit Holdem
$10 + $1 Daily
17.00 EST/22.00 GMT
15.00 EST/20.00 GMT
N/A N/A
$500 Guaranteed
No Limit Holdem
$2 + $0.20 Daily
03.00 EST/08.00 GMT
08.00 EST/13.00 GMT
11.00 EST/16.00 GMT
18.00 EST/23.00 GMT
N/A N/A

There are plenty of qualifiers to the big guaranteed events such as the Aussie Millions with satellites starting from as little as $1. Naturally Poker.com would be involved in the Aussie Millions as the company is based in Australia.

POKER.COM - DEPOSIT & WITHDRAWL OPTIONS

DEPOSIT OPTIONS:
VISA, MasterCard, NETeller, Citadel (US and Canada), InstaCash, and Click2Play.

CASH OUT OPTIONS:
NETeller (instant), Citadel, Click2Play.

Very quick payouts to NETeller.

POKER.COM - SUPPORT

Poker.com only has 24/7 e-mail support. It is staffed by very knowledgeable staff who generally respond very quickly. Still a big negative that there is no live or telephone support.

POKER.COM - LOYALTY PROGRAMME

Poker.com has one of the most generous and easily joinable freerolls of any poker room online! Of particular interest is the daily $3,000 freeroll eligible for anyone who has played 250 raked hands during any 7 day stretch. There are $100 freerolls for all players every 2 hours of the day 7 days per week! The comp points earned entitles you to reload bonuses, special player freerolls like the $3,000 freeroll, invitation to special player's membership as well as convert the comp points into gifts in the forthcoming Poker.com merchandise gift shop.

POKER.COM - MISCELLANEOUS

Poker.com also offers Black Jack.

POKER.COM - MEMBER COMMENTS
MEMBER DATE POSTED COMMENTS
Eurobonus 6 Dec.
2005
Best site for beginners with plenty of freerolls available to all. Interesting software which is unique to Poker.com. Only annoying thing is that I had to install new software to run their interface.
 
 
 
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