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. PrimePoker is the fifth most popular site on the net for cash game players; at times, over 4000 ringers are spread across PrimePoker cash game tables. 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 $0.52 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, deep-stacked, heads-up, special qualifiers and satellites, 'Double or Nothing', ‘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. It is interesting to note the 'Double or Nothing' SnG tournaments are growing in popularity. A 'Double or Nothing' SnG tournament begins with 10 players and plays down until 5 players are remaining. Those 5 players double their buy-in. You can make a ton of money if you play a high volume of 'Double or Nothing' SnG tournaments! Regarding the tiered, step tournaments, 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 $500 ($3 + $0.30 buy-in) up to $20,000 ($5 + $0.50 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 $525. Their big Sunday tournament, which they call the "ChampionChip", has a handsome guarantee of $250,000, making it competitive with other large Sunday tournaments. It has a buy-in of $200 with satellites always running. Freerolls are quite rare; there is only one on Wednesday with a prizepool of $50. 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 PrimePoker, they offer the following methods: Visa/Mastercard, Neteller, WebMoney, Click2Pay, Moneybookers, and Western Union. (Reminder – Prime Poker does NOT accept real money funds from US players.)
We use PrimePoker in this review because that is the brand name. However, people sometimes search for Prime Poker instead. This review applies to both the brand name of PrimePoker and the searched name of Prime Poker.
Prime Poker.com Software Interface/Usability
The overall interface at is relatively good, but there are a few minor annoyances.
At the top of the lobby you choose which type of game you would like to play. Choose between cash game, SNGs, tournaments, and play money games. Unfortunately, there is no option in the lobby that will allow you to see ALL the cash games. The lobby is designed to only reveal which stakes you have selected. The stakes are divided into micro, low, medium, and high. You will only to be view one of these stakes at at time. On a positive note, we did like the great visual summary of who is playing when you click on a cash game table. We also enjoyed the global chat on the far right which allowed me to taunt my opponents!
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. This will be a major shock to players who have played at PokerStars or Full Tilt who have a myriad odfways to customize their poker playing experience. We also noticed some minor glitches and pauses in the software. Overall the software can be clunky, but it is serviceable.
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. Are they an industry titan like PokerStars? No, but they are a major player in the online poker world. The Ongame Network is known for having an interesting mix of grinders, aggressive players, and flat out donkeys. Adjust to each playing style and fleece them all!
As stated earlier, there can be around 20,000+ connected during peak times and there are always multiple tables open for every limit. If you are a tournament player, Prime Poker has a tremendous selection of tournaments filled with fish. Be sure to take advantage of this! 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
As stated earlier is on the Ongame Network, the fifth largest online poker network. That means there will be plenty of fish. Look for them at cash and tournament tables! If you search hard, you should be able to find a gigantic whale!
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 offers the Prime Double bonus to all of their players. 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. Winnings are based on cash games only and there is a minimum winning requirement of $100 for the Doubler promotion.
If you earn 5000 Prime Poker points you will be invited to their private VIP club. After working hard, PrimePoker will award you with VIP Freerolls, invitations to VIP parties, invitations to sporting events, WSOP seats, and a VIP host at your fingertips! On top of all this you will receive 2 additional months to clear your Prime DOUBLER bonuses.
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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.)
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Prime Poker Review on 18 May 2007
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