Prime Poker.com Overview
is a part of the OnGame Poker network. It is important to note that due to the legislation in the United States they currently do NOT accept US customers.
However, if you reside outside of the United States you can play on one of the more active poker networks today. The most popular times at Prime Poker are evenings and weekends in GMT when there are regularly over 20,000 players connected at once.
At PrimePoker you will find the following games: Limit, Pot-limit, and No-limit Hold’em; Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo; 7 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo; plus Limit and Pot-limit 5 Card Draw. Most players are playing No-limit Hold’em, spread across every limit. One thing to note is that there are an above average amount of players playing games other than Hold’em (Omaha, Stud, and Draw). This is largely due to the fact that there is a lot of traffic and a very large player base.
If you are primarily a cash game player Prime Poker will have a game for you. There are almost always 1000+ active tables (sometimes much more during peak hours) with almost 20+ tables for every limit. Although high stakes ($5 - $10 and higher) aren’t as popular, there are still usually 5-10 active tables.
Sit & Go at Prime Poker gets just as much traffic as their ring games, sometimes more. For as little as $1.20 or as high as $525, there will be people to compete with. We noticed that most games running are $50 + $4 and below, with a few $100+ games for the high rollers. There are a wide variety of SnG games offered at Prime Poker, anything from full tabled to shorthanded regular and turbos, heads-up, special qualifiers and satellites, ‘MAD Tilt’, and ‘King of the Hill’. Most people are playing in the standard and turbo tournaments at every limit, but you may notice some of the more interesting games running, such as MAD Tilt All-in. By registering for a MAD Tilt tournament, you start with 60 chips and the blinds are at 10/20 (increasing every 3 minutes), winner take all! We have never seen such a unique (and luck based) tournament offered before. You can buy-in for as little as $2.20 to let off some steam. Another unique structure offered is the King of the Hill tournament. You need to win a seat from the ‘feeders’ into the ‘Step’ tournaments. Once in the Step levels, you must make your way to win the 3rd level to advance to the finals. Whoever finished 1st in the finals scores $2500. (Basically, you need to win 3-6 tournaments in a row, with buy-ins ranging from $1 to $25.)
Multi-Table Tournaments at Prime Poker are also quite popular. Throughout the day, they offer various guaranteed tournaments ranging from $2000 ($10 + $1 buy-in) up to $25,000 ($30 + $3 rebuy). These tournaments almost always exceed the expected prize pool, and usually host around 200-1000 entries. There are also many other MTTs offered throughout the week with buy-ins as low as $1 up to $300. Their big Sunday tournament, which they call the "Big Deal", has recently doubled its guarantee to $150,000 weekly, making it competitive with other large Sunday tournaments. It has a buy-in of $300 + $20 with satellites always running. This tournament only draws on average between 500 and 750 entrants, giving you a good chance at a very nice payday. Freerolls are quite rare, with only a few offered during the week with $100 added. (There is a tournament schedule listed on their website if you are curious about upcoming tournaments.)
While playing real money games at Prime Poker, you will earn ‘Prime Poker Points’ at a rate of .1 point for every $.10 in rake or 5 points per $1 in entry fees. These points are used to clear bonuses (10 points for every bonus $). Prime Poker has also recently added the Prime VIP Club. The VIP Club benefits include participation in exclusive freerolls, invitations to VIP parties, WSOP events and sporting events. This VIP Club is fairly new and is still being developed so it is sure to change and evolve in coming months. Stay up to date by checking the Prime Poker website frequently.
If you wish to deposit funds on , they offer the following methods: Visa/Mastercard; Neteller; WebMoney; FirePay; Click2Pay; Moneybookers; and Western Union. (Reminder – Prime Poker does NOT accept real money funds from US players.)
Prime Poker.com Software Interface/Usability
You should find the lobby and table play at to be fairly decent. Some may consider the lobby crammed and hard to search through since there are so many tables running and the display window is pretty small. However, you can sort them by name, limit, and seated players. The lobby is split between cash and tournaments and you must select which you want to display. One thing that’s a bit frustrating is that a tournament lobby opens in the same window as the main lobby, as opposed to opening in its own window. Also, tournament information is displayed in your browser rather than the software, which is annoying. Most of the options are also browser windows from their website rather than built into the software, including the cashier. If you select Options – Preferences, you can change certain options of the lobby and table. One great feature is you can select between 18 different languages, whereas most poker rooms only offer English.
Prime Poker offers a variety of different seated games, anything from 10-max full ring to shorthanded tables with 6, 5, 4, or even 3-max tables. They also offer heads-up tables for every limit. You can even create your own private ring or tournament, so only your friends can join. While at a table there are built-in avatars for each seat, which can be disabled in the options menu. There are not many customizable options to change while playing, other than displaying amounts, avatars, and a 4 colored deck. We also noticed some minor glitches and pauses in the software, but nothing too major.
One interesting feature noticed during tournaments was the built-in percentage meter. If you end up all-in anytime during the hand, it shows each person’s hand and percent to win. This is reminiscent of watching a poker show on television and can add to the excitement at final tables and such.
Hand histories are instantly available at the table by clicking on “prev. hand” in the upper right hand corner. However, there is not a viewer - it just displays the text in your web browser. Hand histories at Prime Poker seem rather unorganized and were generally hard to follow. You can save the hand history on your computer for later reference.
PrimePoker Poker Room Action
One of the best things about playing at is the action. As stated earlier, there can be around 20,000+ connected during peak times and there are always multiple tables open for every limit. With such a large player base playing across all limits, this is a nice room to try out regardless of the size of your bankroll.
Prime Poker's Ease of Game, Ease of Making Money, Fish Rating
With such a large number of users connected, you can count on there being a big school of fish at Prime Poker. In general, most sites that do not accept US players are much fishier than US rooms and that is definitely the case here. If you are lucky enough to be able to play here, you’ll likely notice 3-4 huge whales at your table just waiting to give you their money.
PrimePoker.com Bonus and Promotions
See our PrimePoker Bonus page for details on clearing your bonus.
is giving us a special sign up bonus of 100% up to $500! Please use the Prime Poker Signup Bonus Code FTR when creating your account for this special deal.
In order to earn this bonus, you must play real money ring games or tournaments to collect Prime Poker Points. This point system was mentioned earlier, but here is an in-depth explanation on earning them:
“For Hold'em, Omaha and 7 Card Stud, 0.1 Prime Poker Points are awarded for every $0.10 paid in rake. So a rake of $3 will award all players in the hand 3 Prime Poker Points. This is also the maximum Prime Poker Points per hand, because the maximum rake per hand is $3. All players that have invested money into the pot will be awarded an equal amount of Prime Poker Points, but only when the pot is raked. Players that do not contribute with any money to the pot will not be awarded any Prime Poker Points. Also, 5 Prime Poker Points are awarded for every dollar paid in the entry fee (for real money tournaments).”
We were slightly confused about being awarded points if you were just dealt cards, so we e-mailed their support and they replied with, “Yes players that do not contribute to the pot will not receive Prime Poker points.” This makes the bonus harder to earn. In order to clear the bonus, you need to earn 10 points for every $1 in bonus money. To earn the full $100, you will need 1000 points – which depending on limit, can take a long time. This may not be worth most people’s time, since the amount of money earned is lower than average, and the time is above average. You have 60 days from your deposit or it will expire. Prime Poker also tries to reward loyal players with 15% reload bonuses that are offered randomly.
Prime Poker also recently announced a new bonus offering to all of their players. Called the Prime Doubler, this bonus will double your winnings in any given month. That's right, if you make $100 in a month, Prime Poker will double your winnings to $200! This bonus is earned the same way as the first deposit bonus. You must earn 10 Prime Poker Points for every $ in bonus money. Points must be earned within a two month period or the bonus will be forfeited. VIP members will be extended two more months to clear this bonus. Winnings are based on cash games only and there is a minimum winning requirement of $100 for the Doubler promotion.
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Prime Poker.com Customer and Technical Support
Support was great in our experience with . We had sent multiple e-mails and received responses on all of them within 30 minutes. They were very knowledgeable and good in explaining certain terms and promotions which seemed unclear. If you wish to contact Prime Poker, you can via e-mail or telephone:
E-mail: support@primepoker.com
Phone: +442071368322 (International number available only.)
Prime Poker Review by givememyleg on 18 May 2007
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