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Party Poker
Party Pokers' claim to fame is that they are the largest on-line poker room in the world, often they have more than 70,000 players playing at a time. With this sheer number of players available Sit and Go poker tournaments have sometimes filled up in a minute or less. At Party Poker you don't so much wait for a game to start, as try to find an open seat before it's claimed.
The Party Poker room has the following poker games: Texas Hold'em, Omaha Hi, Omaha 8 or Better, Seven Card Stud, and Seven Card Stud 8 or Better. Single table tournaments, multi-table tournaments and ring games in are offered in limit, pot limit, and no-limit formats. . Although the ring games are great at Party Poker it is through their tournaments that they excel. Party poker has sponsored several guaranteed on-line Million Dollar tournaments, and they run a huge World Poker Tour event, The Party Poker Million. This is their feature tournament it allows tournament players to share a huge payoff while having to payout little in cash. Tournament play starts with on-line satellite tournaments at Party Poker where the entry fee is a low $32, and ends with the satellite winners playing face-to-face poker aboard a luxury cruise ship as they sail to Mexico. The prize pool is huge, worth an estimated seven million dollars, and will be shared by the top 180 place winners.
Party Poker also offers more modest tournaments for those who don't want to wait for these mega tournaments. Single and multi-table Sit and Go tournaments are offered, so a player can enter a tournament whenever they feel like playing rather than having to wait for the start of a regular tournament. Party Poker also offers a group of tournaments known as STEP tournaments. The STEP tournament is a progression through five tournament levels, the players start the competition by paying a $12 fee and playing at the first level tournament. The winners of the level one tournaments play at a level two tournament where the winners go on to a third level tournament and so on until the fifth and final tournament level is reached. Four of the players in the final tournament will split a pot of $20,000 (for the 20 player series) or $10,000 (for the 10 player series).
Different bonuses are available at Party Poker depending on whether they are new to the room or if they are members. New players are given a welcome bonus of $25 in bonus money for simply making a small deposit, those choosing to make larger deposits are given 20% of the deposit value in bonus money ($100 is the maximum given). If you are a new tournament player you are given free entry into the Party Poker Million, Party Pokers World Poker Tournament event as a bonus. Party Poker members who play at the real money poker tables are awarded Party Points for simply playing. A player can accumulate these Party Points to purchase merchandise with them.
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