Pokerroom.com review
As far as first time deposits and bonuses go, pockeroom.co.uk offer a 100% bonus up to an amount of $100. The $100 upper limit on this is a little low for my liking, but there are a series of bonus welcome tournaments for new players which makes up for this. As well as this, the smallest amount you can deposit is $10, which is good to see, as on most sites it is $20 or $25.
A bonus fee of $50 for both you, and your friend, when you refer a new player to the site, is another good offer to help bankroll growth. In terms of the look and feel of the site, I think this poker room looks very good, but in terms of avatars, there are the same small selection of characters you will find on most sites.
There are bounty tournaments ongoing here, which offer great prizes for the most prolific player eliminators, along with satellites to large tournaments such as the ‘Aussie Millions’.
Help and support is good here, being available 24/7 by phone, lobby chat, and live chat. These are excellent opportunities to solve any problems quickly with one to one chat, and generally I like the idea of lobbies in poker rooms too.
www.pockeroom.co.uk list their pocker games as Texas Holdem, Omaha, 7 Card Stud, 5 Card Draw, and Blackjack. Blackjack of course is not a poker variant, but the games they have on offer are nicely varied I feel. All the usual great freerolls, and real money tournaments can be found here too, and all in all, this poker room has a lot to offer to it’s poker players.
Partypocker Promotions
In terms of promotions, www.partypocker.com has a vast array on offer. These are changed and updated quite regularly and so there should be something for players of all types and bankroll sizes.
Currently on offer are 2 for 1 tournaments, these give any player buying into a tournament, a free seat in another tournament, which provides excellent value for money. 25 seats are also being given away to the $2 million gauranteed tournament coming up at www.partypocker.com. $10,000 is also being given away to a lucky player every day of this month in the ongoing ‘Big Deal’ promotion. PartyPoker have also put together some special features to help their new players get started too which is certainly a good idea considering the influx of new players taking an interest in poker these days.
The first time deposit bonus offered at www.partypocker.com is very respectable with 100% extra offered up to an amount of $500. New players will also have the chance to expand their preliminary finances onsite with a number of new player freerolls on offer too, which give away thousands of dollars each month.
Sundays at PartyPoker include a $300,000 gauranteed tournament for those who can win their seat or afford to buy in. Bad beat jackpots are also paid at this site, and there are several other opportunities to boost your bankroll through promotions onsite, the details of which can be found on the PartyPoker homepage.
pockeroom.co.uk – Different Types of Tournaments
pockeroom – There are many varieties of tournament available to players these days whether online or in live play. It is certainly true that live tournaments are far more likely to be Holdem tournaments at the moment due to the games popularity, but online there are always differing types of tournament available.
The formats of tournaments you might find include, Rebuy tournaments which give players the chance to buy more chips in the earlier stages of a tournament, and freezeouts where players are eliminated once all their chips are gone. More recently there have been special promotional pocker tournaments online such as bounty tournaments, along with guarantees, and satellites to major tournaments all over the world.
Obviously some tournaments you will find have less interest shown in them, with H.O.R.S.E events perhaps getting less players than most due to the diversity of games involved and the fact that not everyone knows how to play them. Personally, I think Holdem, Omaha, Razz, Stud events (to give them their full title) are a great test of the all round game of players, and it would be great to see them rise in popularity.
As most players will know, there are two main categories of tournament in the form of MTT’s and STT’s. These stand for Multi Table Tournament and Single Table Tournament. STT’s generally have 9 or 10 players on one table, although sometimes there are 6 instead. MTT’s can have any number of players and tables involved, although there is usually an upper limit on the amount of entrants. Whichever types of tournaments you usually play in, I always think it is good to experiment, because you might find something new that really suits your style of play.
