Pokerhost.com is a well assembled online business combining one of the world's largest online sportsbooks with casino, horse racing and poker. Pokerhost.com has done a great job with its newly launched poker room with excellent software, solid financial background, good game variety and great promotions. Pokerhost has the potential to become a very successful poker room, particularly with its generous sign up bonus and promotions. On the downside, currently the player volumes are fairly low with up 2,000 players online at peak times. However, we expect this number to grow rapidly with more people becoming aware of this excellent poker room. As you can expect from a poker room which draws its players mainly from its other online activities, the play is very loose and plenty of soft games - ideal place for the experienced poker player.

The software is top notch with excellent reliability and user friendly. Good table information in the lobby, whereas the player tables have a number of innovative features such as easy to access player statistics which can be kept open in the chat window whilst you are playing, good player notes function, and the unique hand replay facility. Kind of fun but also very useful to analyse your play. You can go back and analyse all your hands played if you wish to do so or just a particular hand. We recommend you to try Pokerhost.com and we think you will be as impressed as we have been.

• Texas Hold Em
• Omaha
• Omaha Hi/Lo
• Seven Card Stud
• Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo

The player tables at first seem quite basic (with no player avatars) but after having played on it, you suddenly realise that there are a lot of advanced functions for the players. The cards are of medium size but clear. You can see how much time you have left to make a decision by a counting down clock over the chip rack. At the bottom left you have the player notes function, chat and your player statistics; the player stats can be kept open inside the chat window for careful analysis of your play whilst you are playing - particularly useful for those that don't like to chat whilst playing and vice versa. Player options are available but the options are fairly limited. The unique feature is the hand replay facility whereby you can analyse hands afterwards. Pretty impressive stuff. Live chat help is available from the table with a click of the mouse. Also some interesting graphics whenever a player makes a decision like a red cross appearing beneath the name plate when you fold, green arrows when someone reraises and so on. Only thing is that we are not so sure about the turkey, though!

All the action is at the Texas Holdem tables. You will be hard pressed to find any action at all at the Omaha or the 7 Card Stud tables. The player volumes are quite low at the moment but increasing rapidly. Off peak the player volumes drop below 1,000. If you can't find some action, uou can always try to play against one of the resident pros that are often logged on.

Pokerhost.com has a fairly extensive tournament schedule. The great thing with Pokerhost's tournaments are that the maximum players at the moment are set at 800 with many having 300, 500 and 800 maximum players. With fairly low player volumes, the guaranteed events at the moment make great value as they rarely fill up which means that Pokerhost subsidise the majority of guaranteed tournaments. Thereby improving your expected value/odds greatly. There are 7 freerolls throughout the day. The guaranteed events are not that high value as of yet but are set to increase when more players come on board. Several qualifiers to the WSOP events.

DEPOSIT OPTIONS:
Visa, MasterCard, Diners Club, Money Transfer, NETELLER, instaCASH, FirePay, Nexum, Bank Wire, ICC and Cashiers Check.

CASH OUT OPTIONS:
Checks via Federal Express, Bank Wire, NETELLER, Money Transfer, FirePay, Nexum, or receive your winnings at your local ATM through the one and only online Internet Cash Card.

Pokerhost.com has 24/7 support via LiveChat which works extremely well. Very helpful and knowledgeable. There is also a forum where players can post questions and respond. Although it is a shame Pokerhost don't offer 24/7 telephone support, it doesn't matter all that much as the LiveChat does the job well.

Pokerhost.com award poker player points by playing at tables of $0.50/$1.00 or higher. For every hand that you see the flop you'll receive 4 Poker Points. When you generate rake worth $1.00 you earn 20 Poker Points, when rake reaches $2.00 you earn 40 Poker Points, and at $3.00 you earn 60 Poker Points. Points can be exchanged for cash or tournament entry fee; for every 10,000 points you will receive $20.

Pokerhost.com is owned and operated by SBG who are one of the world's largest online sportsbooks. As such Pokerhost.com also offer a vast array of sports and horse racing bets as well as an online casino. It is easy to transfer balances between the sportsbook, bookmaking facility, casino and poker accounts. If you have a desperate urge to spend your poker winnings at roulette or Brazil winning the world cup at football, then Pokerhost.com is for you.