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PokerRoom is the world's leading no-download poker room, with a unique and sleek design and good traffic. There is a download version as well which has very nice graphics. PokerRoom has managed to get real soft games the last 6 months with their huge traffic increase. The focus is more on 6-handed tables than most other top rooms (together with InterPoker). PokerRoom.com is the best choice for Mac-users, who can play without any special installs. PokerRoom offers great statistical analysis of your game and an open database of the hands played at the site. There traffic is very concentrade to the Holdem and tournament section. A large proportion of the games are short-handed tables with 5 or 6 players. The sign up bonus is huge coming from our site, but the rake is slighly higher than industry average (partly due to all short-handed games). The games have become very juicy lately where soft games are found even up to $5/$10 no-limit Texas Holdem which is impressive. Real money player statistics - May 2005: 2300-2700 ring game players at peak hours, 4000-6000 tournament players at peak hours.
Widely regarded as one of the leaders with its clean, sleek and reliable graphics and software. The software is available as both Java applet and as standard Windows download. The Java version is a great feature for Linux and Mac users who otherwise need a Windows emulator. The Java version is also for certain users who cannot download programs to the computer.The statistics functionality on your played hands in the various games is good, with extra features such as hourly win/loss rate and Big Bets won or lost. There is a random delay in the automated pre-selected actions a client can take, not to give away any extra information via an immediate check. The lobby information is a little tricky to use, as you need to click on each table to get the full statistics
The traffic at peak hours is currently 2300 to 2700 real money ring games players. The high limit tables in particular have grown very much since last year.
The traffic at the tournaments at peak hours reaches currently between 4000 and 6000 real money players. There are two big daily free rolls, which draw very large crowds.
Good variety, but traffic very concentrated to Texas Holdem. Finally pot-limit and no-limit games as well as Omaha and seven-card stud (both Hi and Hi-Lo) were launched in the spring and summer 2004. (Omaha is both available in fixed-limit, pot-limit and no-limit where the no-limit version is rather unusual for Omaha, in particular in the Omaha High version).
The rake is now on par with the industry standard (used to be less attractive than the average), with 5% of the pot up to a maximum of $3. The policy to rake uncalled bets and no flop games is changed with no raken taken.
From our experience that there are quite a few more soft games available at PokerRoom since the big marketing push in the summer 2004 and their good positioning in search engines like Google. But you cannot look at the top stakes games for soft competition, where PokerRoom is less of a "fish pond". Still, you can at times find $5/$10 no-limit Holdem tables with a view flop percentage of 35-40%. Overall, many full ten-player hold'em games have a view flop percentage in the 40-ies and 50-ies, and some in the 60-ies - so the games are quite soft and the trend is good.
PokerRoom.com is offering a 40% bonus up to $200 on your first deposit.
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