888.Com - Poker room review

Overall:  9.5/10

Software: 9.5/10

Bonus & promotions: 9/10

Payout: 9/10

US Accepted: NO

SUMMARY

After having great success with its first product Casino-on-net, then its second Reef Club Casino, 888.com launched its multi player online poker room called Pacific poker. Being owned by 888.com everyone expected this new poker room to be a success, Pacific Poker went beyond everybody's expectations to become arguably one of the best online poker rooms on the net for poker online tournaments today.

Having almost eight years experience with online poker and an amazing 13 years in the online gaming industry 888's poker room is a cut above the rest as they know what players want and expect from them.

The variety of  poker online tournaments is great and for a stand alone poker room they have a massive player base.

Customer services couldn't be any better as they offer support 24/7 by E-mail, Telephone, and on-line support.

When you add all this to the software and bonuses they give this is definitely a poker room I recommend.

SOFTWARE

Pacific Poker is a stand alone poker room and does not share a player base with any other poker room.

Back in May of 2007 Pacific Poker underwent a massive revamp which has made this poker room one that others look to when they want to see how a gaming site should look and how it should be run. The graphics are very easy on the eye and the Lobby is very easy to navigate and is designed so the most inexperienced of users will have no problems finding the poker online tournaments they want.

The software is very stable and very rarely has any glitches. It is downloaded in about 30 seconds on a 10meg broadband connection and takes about 2 to 3 minutes to get registered.

The features of this poker room is where it out classes most competitors. There are two types of poker client a standard download version and a no download browser version which is great to use at work or for Mac and Linux users. The only difference is the browser version has some 3D graphics and some features taken out.

• Table - You can have 3 different table views with lots of action buttons on each, get stats right on the table showing how many players are left stack sizes and player statistics.

• Multi tabling - Is made easy you can have up to 16 tables open at any one time and with the new queing system it helps you keep on top of your game the system puts each table that requires action into chronological queue when a table requires an action it will wait in line until you attend to it, when you perform an action it will put that table to the back of the queue.

• Quick seat - The quick seat feature helps you find the poker online tournament and not waste any time at all.

• Open identical table - This is a button that is on the table and when pressed will find you a seat in an identical game, you do not have to be playing in the game to do this if you are watching a game you can still use this feature.

• Money transfer - You can transfer money from your account to another players account right from the lobby screen.

BONUSES

Deposit Bonus - Pacific Poker run great promotions and now is a great time to sign up, they offer a 100% match up to $400. A lot of other poker rooms offer 100% match deals for signing up but to get the money you have to earn a set a mount of points, Pacific Poker give you 25% of this bonus instantly before you even look at the poker online tournaments.

The other 75% of the deposit bonus is extremely easy to get the conversion rate is 10 BP's to $1 of bonus money. You can accumulate BP's in a variety of ways, such as cash games, tournament buy ins and even by playing casino games. Another great feature they have for Bonus Points is a bar actually on the poker table telling you how many points you have and how many you need to convert to cash.

This poker room certainly know how to tempt new players to join up, you don't just get a deposit bonus you get a deposit package that consists of

• Entry to the 50K first depositors challenge, which is on every Friday night.

• Free entry to seven $500 first Depositors freerolls.

• Free entry to the $1,000 Depositors freeroll.

Loyalty Bonus - Pacific Poker offer a nice loyalty program. Every real money player will receive status points the amount of status points you get will determine your status level. There are six status levels and each level has its own unique benefits. As  well as status points you will be awarded reward points the higher you status the more reward points you will receive.

A Bronze status player (the lowest status) receives 1 point for a set amount of tournament fee or rake, a Silver status player would receive 2 points for the same fee or rake, a Gold player would get 4.5 points for the same amount of fees.

This gets good when you reach Platinum as you receive 9 points for the same rake a Bronze player gets 1 point for, but yet it still goes higher VIP status gets 13.5 points and a VIP Diamond player gets a whopping 18 points.

Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum status lasts until the end of the following month.

VIP and VIP Diamond status lasts for a year.

PLAYER TRAFFIC

Traffic amount - In December 2009 Pacific Poker shows 2,000 ring games and 8,000 tournament games. 888.com has over 20 million members.

Type of traffic - as for the type of traffic 888.com has been around for 13 years and is massive in the online casino world which makes the competition very soft at their poker room as it gets lots of casino and sports book players coming to try poker.

DEPOSIT  & WITHDRAWALS

Deposit Options: VISA, MasterCard, EuroCard, Diners Club, Solo, laser Debit Cards, Maestro, Bank transfer, Boleto, Deposito Refrenciado, European checks, E-checks, PayPoint Invoice, Wire transfers, Commerzbank OnlineBanking Web, Deutsche bank 24 Direct Debit, Dresdner bank InternetBanking, ELBA, Direct Debit, eNETS, hansabank, Neteller, InstaDebit, ClickandBuy, ACTeCASH, Moneybookers, ukash, bank transfer, PaysafeCard, EntroPay, PayPoint, Dankort debit card (Denmark), Nordea online bank account (Sweden/Finland), Paypal (Austria, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and UK).

Withdrawal Options: Visa, Mastercard, Debit Cards, Neteller, Moneybookers, PayPal, wire transfer (direct bank account transfer) and bank draft (cashier's check). Withdrawals are held for three days before processing.