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Empire Poker Bonus Code
Use Poker Bonus Code: FTR120
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EmpirePoker.com at a Glance
Overall Rating:
3.506
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US Players: |
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Software Download Info: |
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Empire Poker Download |
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Network: |
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PartyPoker |
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Current # of Players (Tue Feb 6 2007, 06 PM): |
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6,600 |
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Multi-Tabling: |
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12 |
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Bonus:
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20% Initial Deposit Up to $100 - Use Bonus Code: FTR120
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Minimum Deposit Amount: |
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$25 |
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Minimum Deposit Options: |
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Bank Transfer: $25, Click&Buy: $25, Entropay: $25, Laser: $25, MasterCard: $25, Moneybookers: $25, Neteller: $25, Visa: $25, WireTransfer: $25, Citadel: $50, ElectronicTransfer: $50, ELV: $50, eWire: $50, iDeal: $50, Paysafecard: $50, UseMyBank: $50 |
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No Limit Ring Stakes: |
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$.02 - $.04 up to $25 - $50 |
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Limit Ring Stakes: |
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$.05 - $.10 up to $250 - $500 |
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Sit & Go Stakes: |
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$.90 + $.10 up to $5000 + $10 |
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Player Points: |
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Yes |
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Nuts (Cool): |
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It is easy to qualify and clear Empire's initial deposit bonus. They occasionally offer redeposit bonuses to members. Has a familiar Party Poker interface and software. Recently added a VIP program which has some decent benefits. |
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Beats (Suck): |
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Does not offer a useful friend/fish finder. Sadly does not accept US players. Support desk can be pretty slow at replying. EmpirePoker doesn't offer very many promotions. |
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Empire Poker.com Review
The online poker room,
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is a part of perhaps the most well known poker room, Party Poker. Party Poker owns the network and has Empire Poker as a skin to share traffic. Unfortunately, both rooms do not accept US players and this really slowed the growth of these one time massive rooms. You can't play here in the United States, but this is still a great room to check out if you're located elsewhere!
Take advantage of both great poker rooms and sign up to both!
Read our sign-up
guidelines for EmpirePoker to learn how!
Like PartyPoker, Empire Poker is licensed and regulated by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, is easy, safe and secure,
offers prompt payouts and lots of games (Holdem, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo)
at many different limits. These start off as low as $.02 - $.04 and go all the way up to $25 - $50. Even though they lost their US player base, there are still plenty of players and action across all levels. Of course most are playing NLHE, mainly in the low-mid stake range, but you will always see quite a few tables all the way up to 5000 nl. The other games offered such as Omaha always have a decent amount of traffic as well. I noticed about 30 active tables ranging from $.10 - $.20 up to $10 - $20 of PLO during the morning (Eastern Time) which is great for Omaha. Also about 10 tables of Stud, and as Stud is pretty much a dying game these days that is a decent amount.
Empire Poker's tournament and sit and go's are grown a lot since in the last few years. Party/Empire were the tournament dominators back pre-UIGEA, but that has since gone over to PokerStars and Full Tilt. However, you can still find a wide variety of tournaments every month. Their biggest tournament is their Sunday $300,000 guaranteed which has a $215 buy-in. This is one of the better Sunday tournaments out there as it always seems to have an overlay and there are constantly satellites running starting as low as $3; this adds a lot of fish to the player base! As for other tournaments, the offer various MTTs ranging from $1 ($1000 guaranteed rebuy), $5 ($500 guaranteed), $11 ($2,000 guaranteed), $22 ($5,000 guaranteed), $33 ($10,000 guaranteed rebuy), and so on up to their largest buy-in $530 ($50,000 guaranteed) throughout the week. The player base isn't as large as it use to be, with an average of 50-500 players usually for Empire's MTTs. There is a wide variety of sit and go's offered at Empire. Starting as low as $1, up to $5000, finding one for your bankroll won't be hard. There are hundreds running during all 24 hours, most under the $100 level. Empire offers 10 player regular and turbo, 6 max regular and turbo, heads up, satellites, and STEPs for their sng selection.
EmpirePoker Lobby
EmpirePoker Texas Holdem Table
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Empire Poker.com Software Interface/Usability
's software is very easy to use and offers some nice features. EmpirePoker.com's interface
is identical to PartyPoker's, except the color scheme is different (blue!). In the Lobby, it's very easy
to find the game and stakes you are looking for. EmpirePoker has a "Hide Full Tables" option so you can
choose to see just the tables that have available spots, or all tables. You can also sort the list
by the size of the average pot, which is very important in your table selection strategy.
The Empire Poker table game interface is solid. Although not the prettiest to look at, the software is very stable
and has some nice features, such as right clicking on your opponent and taking notes, and right clicking
on yourself and seeing your session's statistics. When you take notes on an opponent, a little yellow
sticky note appears on the corner of your opponent. If you sit down at a table, and some of your opponents
have that yellow sticky note, then you know you've played with them before and have notes on them.
Unfortunately, you must go through the extra step right-clicking on the opponent to read your notes.
The statistics is also a
nice feature, but the statistics only report for your current session, and you do not have control
of keeping those statistics averaged over several sessions. Another nice feature while playing at the tables is the ability to resize. You can make them smaller if need be on a older monitor that doesn't have very large resolution.
Betting is very easy on the no limit tables, there is a slider that you can use or a text box to
type in your bet. The bet amounts and pot amounts show the actual dollar amounts under the chips
so it is very easy to see the dollar amounts and calculate your odds.
There are three action buttons during play - fold, check/call, and bet/raise buttons. The buttons change
depending on the action, but I do not like how the check and call buttons share the same placement. On
one occasion, I had meant to check my hand, not noticing that the player right before me placed
a huge bet. So, instead of checking, I actually called his bet. Dumb move on my part, but it can happen
so be careful (although this might have happened to me at PartyPoker and not EmpirePoker...can't recall!)
Empire Poker does lack a good buddy finder (or fish finder). It would be nice to maintain a list of players
to keep an eye on, and have EmpirePoker tell you what tables they are playing on. EmpirePoker's Buddy List will inform
you if a certain player is logged in, but not where they are at. Considering the multitude of tables
at Party, it's very difficult to target your fish.
Empire Poker, like many other poker rooms, offers your hand histories which you can save to your computer. In the past you had to request these via e-mail which was a big hassle. You can now automatically save them and import with Poker Tracker for easy progress.
Overall, I'm pleased with the
software interface and usability. I'm very comfortable with the software
and have been using it for a quite some time now.
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EmpirePoker.com Poker Room Action
Back in the day,
was referred to as the largest poker room in the world with its partner, PartyPoker. Since the ban of US players, this has changed drastically. They were on the verge of 50,000+ constant players connected, but this has dropped to around 8,000. During peak hours, 12,000+ are pretty common but a majority of its older base was the US market. However, Empire Poker is still one of the largest non-US sites in the world today. Just because they aren't in the 100,000 range doesn't mean you shouldn't try them out. Peak hours really vary here since their traffic is all over the world, and there is a pretty consistent amount all throughout the day. There are always hundreds of active cash tables running, tons of sngs, and a decent amount of tournaments. Even though Empire isn't as big as they once were, they're still a very large and well known online poker room. Traffic is not a problem.
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Empire Poker.com Customer and Technical Support
I haven't had any major issues with EmpirePoker.com, so I haven't had to use their support very often.
The cashouts have been easy and prompt. Empire Poker.com's support staff is always vigilantly battling online
collusion efforts,
tracking any player trends and IP addresses that are suspicious. After I signed up to EmpirePoker.com,
I actually received a phone call at my house because I was already a member of PartyPoker, so
they just confirmed my information. This effort makes me feel very
comfortable playing at EmpirePoker. I know that one person cannot be playing two spots on my table, because
EmpirePoker has the technology to ban that. The best kind of support is when you don't need any.
As for e-mail support, they seem hit or miss in my experience. It's odd that sometimes I receive a reply within an hour with questions, and other times it can take days. They also have a live chat feature but you need to be a VIP member to use it.
E-mail: info@empirepoker.com
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Empire Poker's Ease of Game, Ease of Making Money, Fish Rating
I believe Empire Poker (and Party Poker) has the most fish than any other online poker room. And not just because
it has the most players, but I think the percentage of fish to the rest of the population is very
high. Party Poker and Empire Poker are recruiting new players at an incredible rate. And most of them suck!
Of course with such amateurish play, you can plan on taking some bad beats and swings, but overall
it's been a very consistent money maker for me. In fact, this is what Empire/Party are most well known for - being the fishiest poker site online. This still seems to be the case in 2008 even without US players!
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EmpirePoker.com Bonuses and Promotions
has a 20% initial deposit bonus up to $100! If you'd like to take advantage of this, just join through any
of our Empire Poker links, and use the Empire Poker Bonus Code: FTR120.
Earning this bonus is a piece of cake. The amount may be small, but it is one of the best and most popular bonuses in terms of earning it. To clear it, you need to play 5x the bonus amount in raked hands. So if you were to get the full $100, you would have to play 500 raked hands. This is one of the easiest earned bonuses out there! Depending on how many tables you play it can be cleared in just a few hours. This bonus expires 30 days after it is issued so be sure to clear it before then!
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EmpirePoker.com User Reviews
Overall Rating:
3.506
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 “Empire Bonus Scam” by Andy, 23 Jun 2005 |
Interface:  Action: Support: Fish:  Bonus: |
I have been playing on Empire for about
a year now as well as some other
websites. I have not had any problems
until recently. A couple days ago I
received an e-mail saying that I was
eligible for a 100% redeposit bonus up
to $100. In fact, I got a pop-up saying
the same thing when I signed on. After
depositing, I received an e-mail
confirming that the bonus amount was
added to my bonus account. However, I
noticed that the bonus status was
"elapsed" and contacted customer
support.
Here is the first problem with Empire
Poker, the Customer Service is at best
Terrible. It is impossible to get
immediate assistance. There are is no
telephone support therefore, I was
relegated to e-mail. Upon sending my
e-mail, I received a response about an
hour later, saying that I could not
collect my bonus as I withdrew from my
account 7 days ago and management just
enforced this new rule effective
immediately. NOTICE: This was no where
listed on the disclaimers that all
bonuses had. So, of course I replied
saying how I thought this was "poor
customer service, ete." To make a long
story short I am about 7 e-mails into
this process and have not received any
adeaqute responses. In fact, one e-mail
said I would have my bonus by the end of
the day, while another about an hour
later said the most they could give me
was $10. That should give some insight
into how bad customer serivce there is.
I suggest people go to other websites.
When it comes down to it, there are a
lot of fish on a lot of different sites,
so the little things, or big things LIKE
CUSTOMER SERVICE really matter. True
Poker seems to be a good site. Nice
skin and good immediate customer service
(like you were using AIM). Plus, they
got heads up games which are a nice
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