Party Poker

Site is easy to use, however just like
the other sites need to learn....If your
going to offer a bonus, just give it to
the customer. No more have to play 250
RANKED hands or other gimics. We are
tired of it. Just give us a BONE and we
would be happy. When will these people
learn that. On the plus side there is
plenty of people on the site, it is easy
to maneuver and alot of variety. Good
luck, you'll need it.

don't want to be the person to bring
this up, BUT...

My geek buddies and I did a pretty
extensive study of party poker (10,000)
hands. Paying special attention to
cash-out, deposits, brief periods of not
playing, and a number of other things
that would affect the profitability of
the poker room and I can say without a
doubt that the natural distribution of
cards was out of line. I obviously
can't prove that it's on purpose or
that it makes PP more money, BUT for the
10,000 hands that we looked at things
were askew. I don't want to ruffle any
feathers and want everyone to know that
I am up on pp over 20K in the last
year...so I'm not complaining!!!

It all got started when one of our group
saw 4 sets of quads in about two and a
half hours......FOUR. There were
several nights during the study that the
probability of seeing the hands that we
saw in the amount of hands that we
played was over 1 in 1,000,000!!!!!

I have a degree in statistics and have
made six figures 5 years in a row
playing poker. It's safe to say that
my figures are within a mouse fart of
being right.

Also, to all of you that think it's not
fixed...Just because you're winning
doesn't mean that the deal is truly
random.

We're currently studying another site
and I'll post again when we're
finished.

Partypoker is an average site for cash
games...they havea wide variety but they
suffer in the tournaments. Cashing out
without a bank account takes 1 month.
I have played money on both partypoker
and ultimate bet and for money games go
partypoker...for tournaments go ultimate
bet

Party Poker is a good place to go and
try out moves that you would not normaly
try. You can regain your money fairly
easy and support is always there to help
if needed. One thing that I don't like
is some peoples language and attitudes.
Not professional which isn't the sites
fault but the person with the bad
attitude. It is a safe place for
beginners to go and not get hurt. The
Play Money side and this side of Party
Poker, the play money, has no pressure
to switch to real money until you are
ready. Just make sure you go there to
have fun, a person can get serious with
the real money side, yet have fun with
the play money side. Good site.

First off I think anyone who thinks
these online poker sites are rigged (who
probably also still believe that elvis
still lives and that the government
conspired to fake the moon landing)
needs to take a reality check. These
companies make tonnes of money as it is
and dont need to do any more, and the
risk of them being found out would
almost definitely lead to bankruptcy
which simply wouldn't be worth the
attempt. Overall they dont care who
wins because in the case the house
definitely is always the winner.

Overall I like party, the action is
always suitable no matter what kind of
table your after and there are a lot of
inexperienced players, even at the
higher limits, which makes this site
very lucrative.

The visual side of things is a little
dowdy and outdated but frankly I'll go
with outdated whilst the money keeps
coming in! The only issue I have is the
lack of smaller limit games, 0.5->1 is
the lowest and every now and then I like
to play at a micro game when I dont feel
like playing a heavy session so I have
to go elsewhere for this (or play with
play cash).

The bonus's are so easy to get its
great, I always take 100% avantage of
them when they arrive, and the cash
in/out process is the best about (no
faffing with neteller or anything else I
can pay directly with my debit card AND
can withdraw immediately unlike many
sites).

Overall it gets 4/5 from me, needs lower
limit games and a software hike to get a
5.

Because this is the biggest site it will
receive the most reviews. I believe that
this explains the inordinate number of
bad beat reports. Once you understand
that adjustments are necessary based on
the type of game you are playing, I
don't see how any decent Hold Em player
can lose for long on this site. During
peak hours it is almost impossible to
find a game where someone won't pay you
off often enough to show a profit. The
bonuses are easy to knock out in a day
if you multi table. I can cashout into
my Neteller account the SAME day I made
my deposit. There are no delays or hoops
to jump through. Not many sites can do
that. The customer service does leave a
bit to be desired of as their solution
to everything is "Reinstall the program
and if that doesn't work, reinstall
windows." Yeah... right. Other than
that, I have to say that in 4 years of
online playing, this has been the most
lucrative site I have encountered. Lots
of people playing their hands too far...
Gee, I wonder if that was them
complaining?

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.
Once I've made a thorough statistical
check of my hands on PokerStars - 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.

Signed up for PartyPoker the other day
and have been pretty happy with the site
overall. The initial bonus was $25 free
with a $50 deposit, which I thought was
pretty nice. You had to play 140 raked
hands to unlock it, but that went very
fast so it was no hurdle at all. There
are always a ton of players online, so
there is never any waiting at all for
Sit-And-Go tournaments to get enough
players. Also, for a small fee they have
a service that lets you purchase a phone
card with your credit card and then
convert it into PartyPoker money -- this
is very useful when you have credit
cards that do not allow online gambling
transactions (both of mine are like
this). Also, I have cashed out twice to
Neteller and both times it has only
taken a couple of hours to be approved
and in my Neteller account. My only
gripe would be a lack of lower limit
tournaments, the cheapest Sit-And-Go is
$5+$1, and I like playing lower stakes
sometimes on other sites. Many people
comment about there being a ton of
newbies on here, well they definitely
are there but you find good players
also. Obviously the higher stakes you
play, the less likely you will be to
encounter them... but why you would NOT
want to play with a poor player is
beyond me.

I can't stand all of these reviews
which say that the cards are fixed or
something. The hands are just as random
as playing with a real deck. Take a
look through your hand history and count
the number of times you have gotten
total junk, it's huge. There are two
reasons that it seems like the hands are
fixed.
1) You are seeing a ton of hands. I
play 400-500 hands a night. You can
expect to get AA, AK, or KK about 2.5%
of the time. Therefore, in a typical
night you might get these hands 12-13
times which is normal. Your opponents
will get these hands about 100-120 times
a night!! (assuming 9 opponenets).
Again, this is NORMAL.

2) Most lower level players think that
the more cards that they see, the better
chances they have to win. Therefore,
they stay in to the river on almost all
draws. These draws will come in about
1/4 to 1/6th of the time. Again, in a
typical night that could be 100 times.

- H.J.S.

Totally agree with dropping by.
Game winning or losing is not decided
either by skill or luck of players, but
by software. Software set ups the
outcome of games. Don't expect you win
the game which you should win 99% at
real casinos. The card patterns are not
like the ones at a real casino. In 1
session, try counting how many times you
get same suit cards, how many times you
get pocket pairs, how many times you get
2 face cards, how many times you hold
connecting and/or same suit cards, how
many times after the flop, you are flush
draws or straight draws, how often
players get 3 of a kind, etc.....then
compare to the real casino....
Same thing at Paradise's.
I believe, if you play at this places
long enough, you can guess which cards
comimg out next...and win or...lose.
Statistic, peercent odds, all math
stuffs....don't apply here. Example,
you hold A/K club, and the flop comes
Q/J club, 10 spade. Just don't raise or
reraise like a crazy, because you will
get mad at the river card.
Just try memorize the card patterns, it
will help. Keep away the pots which has
somebody 'all-in'. 'All-in' wins
most of the time, so they can keep on.
(how nice the software). Again, no math
or odds involves here. Only the software
decide who'll win the pot.
Play here if you don't care your skills
messed up.

Party Poker is no more than an advanced
slot machine. You win and loose
dependent on software, not the math of
the game. Go try it... use poker
tracker or your own db or excel even...
you'll see the stats are pretty far off
from the measured norm in poker books.
When you can see dbl and triple standard
deviation on your hands and this
happening consistently... well I don't
think that points to any other direction
than it is NOT a fair & true game. For
example.. a hand that's is said to win
86% of the time, has only won 22% of the
time. That is a small sample of just
over 100 games and 5000 hands, but with
several plays being the reverse of the
stated odds I had to cash my $ out. So
much for more poker, just have to drive
to the real thing only again. I would
check your own play out and decide for
yourself. Also keep an eye on how your
play (river cards especially) works out
depending on your account
balance/deposits.

ive been playing at party poker for
almost a year and that in itself says
that i am pretty satisfied. The
interface is very simple it took me
about a day to get use to it and
understand all the functions. The amount
of fish that are on that site is
incredible, even at the 10/20 tables.
About the person that complained that
their money from their account was
missing that has never happened to me
but a friend of mine lost like 20
dollars once and complained to party
poker it took them acouple months but
they finally paid him back and
apologized for the mixup. I have had
very good customer support with them,
acouple times i was disconnected from a
tourney and couldnt reenter the table
and i simply emailed them and i recieved
full compensation plus an extra 20
dollars.

People have posted some good and
insightful reviews on here regarding
PartyPoker. Considering the number of
reviews shows how popular Party Poker
really is. This is one place everyone
tries out. You've probably gotten a
decent understanding of PartyPoker by
now, but I'll throw in my 2 cents. If
you like ring games, this is a great
place to be - lots of action, tons of
tables, tons of players, no waiting for
a table, 24x7 the action is good. If
you like making money at the low-stakes
tables, this is a great place to be. If
you want a fancy graphical interface or
other bells and whistles that really
don't matter, then go somewhere else.
Bonus is also solid and easy to earn.

I have played this site and hate it. The
game play is good like most sites, but
the interface is sooo sooo bad, I can't
get past it. THe lobby area is so poor,
I have a hard time deciding what is
going on. This site is great if you plan
on playing for play money, but not for
real.
It is like pulling teeth trying to get
into a table tourney, you click on the
table and it takes 5 sec to load and
then the table looks empty but its not
because people have already filled the
table. Also you can't just click on a
seat and sit down, you have answer and
click like 3 screens to get in, and by
that point somebody has stolen your
seat. I tryed last night to get into a
tourney table and took me 10 mintues to
get to a table. TERRIBLE TERRIBLE
Interface! Try Pokerroom.com its the
best out there.

admit it, I'm new to this Poker craze.
I even love this new found ESPN/Travel
Channel trained crowd of newbies and
fish. Being a sound, semi-pro rated
blackjack player who reads and studies
almost every avenue of the game, I
finnaly found an escape from the
over-bearing house advantage at
blackjack. I rarely play blackjack now,
the casino's and the "newbies" who
jump into the game have ruined it in my
opinion. Sure, the house counts on these
fish to make their cash cow go. And
sure, poker players count on the
injection of newbies to make their
money. But PartyPoker plainly lacks the
customer support (not almost
non-existent, TOTALY non-existent).
Thier rake is way out of bounds,
especially on SnG's. Ease of Game? I
guess for those who refuse to study and
strive to become world-class players,
PartyPoker is the best. It is the site
for "No-Fold 'em Hold'em" style
play. For those of you who rave about
PartyPoker "if you don't know who the
mark is......". PartyPoker is what it
is because of the fish and for those of
you into Poker for the short haul there
will never be another site like it. Fish
aplenty. As for me, I prefer to up my
game and not be satisfied with simply
beating a bunch of maniacs who wish to
try their luck at the "game" of Poker.
Poker, unlike any other form of gaming,
is to be played with style and honor.
The river rats at PartyPoker, and you so
called "skilled" players who bring
yourselves down to this level simply to
cash in on the un-suspecting, lack the
class and honor that Poker deserves in
the gaming world. Way too many repeat
hands (how about A3o three times in a
row) and way too many repeat flops (I
actually flopped QQ8 three times in a
row, four times in ten rounds). To make
that this site is anything more than a
place for fish and those who prey on
them by refusing to give up on medium
hands to the river, it plays out far too
many times here. The tourney's are
geared towards thier own tourney's and
never towards any others. I have figured
out how to play @ PartyPoker - play it
like a video game, open up three tables
or more during tourney or ring and take
note of the similarity of the cards.
Play two or more tables and notice the
familarity of not only your pocket but
the flop, turn, or river. Go on a draw,
watch the other table, and you can bet
like a wild man, if one table his your
flush, you can bet without fail the
other will too. THIS is NOT Poker - it
is a video/cyberspace replica of Al
Capones "Mirrored" Poker room. (Al had
his room set up with mirrors all around
except behind his own seat). So, to all
of you who only play PP - do not go to
FullTilt, Doyle's, or any site where
skill, patient, or learned players are
at. If you aspire only to play fish, PP
is the place for you. It's your choice,
continue along with the skill level it
takes to take money from losers and
beginners and that's where you'll stay
- at that skill level. PartyPoker IS the
room for you.

Interface is one of the worst in the
industry. Support almost non-existent.
Action is good (especially fish is
good). But if U want to have fun from
play or U want to improve your skills -
Party is not a good place to go.

I made a $100 deposit on Party Poker
today and so far I can confidently say
that it is the BEST. I played for about
an hour and a half at 25 NL(6 max)
tables and Im already up $50. I also
got a great bonus: 50%, max. $100. So
Ill have another 50 bucks in bonus money
after only playing 250 raked hands. Ive
already played 110. Customer support is
second to none. Ive called them twice
already and got the help I needed both
times and it only took about 20 minutes
for them to process my Western Union
transfer. The only other sites Ive
played are Stars and Pacific, and they
are no where near as fishy as Party. If
your playing anywhere else (besides
Empire) I would suggest switching to
Party.

Ok, a couple things, there is no online
poker room that's totally perfect for
everyone - if the interface is awesome,
there's not enough action (UltimateBet,
PokerRoom, Superior, Full Tilt). If
there's plenty of ring game action,
maybe the tournament action is weak
(PartyPoker, EmpirePoker charge too much
for SnG's). A room can have great
tournament action, but nothing else
(PokerStars).

But I would say the over-riding factor
is making money, I mean that is probably
the main reason most of us play poker.
It's fun and social, but it's about
winning money.

I am a ring-game player. 10 Player
games are my thing, but I'll play 6
too. Clearly, PartyPoker (and
EmpirePoker) is the best poker room for
me. There is unlimited ring game action
at all stakes, at all times, any day. I
can play 4 tables simultaneously at any
stakes I want without any delays.

Searching for the right table to play at
is part of my game. Searching for just
any table with a seat is ridiculous.

IMHO, the fish are not as plentiful at
PartyPoker (and EmpirePoker) as perhaps
1 year ago, but you can still find easy
tables that will pay you off.

And for you bonus hunters, there is no
poker room bonus that is easier to reach
than PartyPoker (and EmpirePoker).

Have fun.

this site is really, to be honest
BORING! the table image is horrible it
looks dated and old. also the lobby is
just text. Not tom mention it doesnt
even display your cash cound on the main
loby page. customer support is quite
fast, i will give it that but i have to
say, i dont like it.

I finally made the plunge into Party
Poker, mostly to get the deposit bonus,
but also based on what I have read here.
I am primarily a limit player, so I
cleared my bonus mostly by playing
.50/1.00 limit.


1. The software is ok... the game screen
is too big and makes it hard to
multitable, and I use a 19" monitor set
at 1280. The search functions are good,
and the graphics are not distracting
like at Prima sites. I would also like
to see preflop percentage stats.

2. The players are not that loose. I
found play there to be pretty tight pre
flop in the cash games. Very seldom did
I see more than 3 or 4 way action seeing
the flop. At the turn it almost always
dropped down to heads up action. Players
at Pacific and the Prima sites are much
fishier than at Party in my opinion.

3. Why have I not seen anyone
complaining about the entry fees for the
SNG's and MTT's? Party and Paradise
both charge double what Poker Stars and
Pacific charge. 5 + .50 is a hell of a
lot better than 5 + 1.00, especially if
you are just a marginally winning
player. Play 100 SNG's and it's an
extra 50 bucks at Party. That reason
alone is probably why I'm going to
leave.

4. Party's MTT"s suck, at least for
me. I like 5 dollar buy in tourneys and
lower, and they just don't have these.

I feel this is the best place to play
ring games. As long as you are a solid
player you will make money. There are
so many people that make mistakes and
sure you'll take some bad beats but
over time you will be up money. This
fish at this site are riduculous and its
like they just want to give their money
away. I won't even play anywhere else
for my ring games. The only problem is
that the rake is high as it is with all
poker sites. The sit and goes
especially have a high rake. I have
been fortunate enough to consistantly
make a profit so the rake can be
overcome. The only other gripe I have
about the site is that sometimes when
you are reading information in the lobby
(ex. players left, time left, players at
a table, $$ amount) sometimes that
information is slow in updating.
Overall I am very pleased with the site
and let me say that seem to have really
great customer service and lightening
quick e-mail responses.

I played for abomut a month on party
poker and all of a sudden my accounts
money "disappeared".....

I don't think I am the only one that
this has happend to... but I am sure I
will never go back.

Also, Sit n Go's and tournaments Party
pokers rake is terrible they have
$5+1.... everywhere else I have ever
been its $5+.50




Editor's Note: Poker account money does not just disappear. If this claim is genuine and accurate, it is an extremely rare oddity and would be promptly investigated and handled by customer support.

My first Poker experience. I very much
miss a micro limit (less than 0,5/1,0),
since I go down to those levels when I
have some time of bad luck/bad play. I
also try to biuld a bankroll on the
lower limits and climb the ladder. With
my limited starting bankroll, I can't
play very comfortably on PP due to the
limits.

The interface feels very old. Action is
Good. My only complaints are the once
above.

PartyPoker has pretty reliable software.
There is tons of action on the holdem
tables. I've never had any problems
with the customer support. There are
plenty of bad players. The bonus is
reasonable, it only took me a few nights
to play enough raked hands to get my
bouns.

Lots of fish and monkey poker.