Absolute Poker Software

Absolute Poker's software is on a constant, evolutionary cycle, as Absolute listens to it's player's suggestions and constantly improve their software.

Absolute Poker comes with a default table skin, but players can download and install a wide variety of table skins, and are free to design their own. The default skin is a blue felt, wood-trimmed table, black leather chairs and a tan carpet. Players have a choice of four card-back colors to choose from as well as four-color deck options. Players can design their options to suit their needs. The on-table note function has an auto-wrap function, making notetaking easy. Players have access to a very good statistics screen, as well as both written and picture hand histories. The player avatars can be toggled off individually.

The main menus are broken down into the various forms of ring games and tournaments and are easily navigable. Ring games menus include "Players seeing the flop" percentages as well as well as average pot sizes and hands per hour, facilitating a player's ability to choose a table quickly. All of the main menu screens are fully filterable, allowing players to sort the menus by whichever criteria they need.

Absolute Poker Traffic

Absolute Poker accepts players from the United States. Absolute Poker is a medium-sized poker site whose traffic is growing as a result of the ban of American players at many poker sites. Traffic can be hit and miss, however, during the middle of the day in the United States.

Absolute Poker Games

Absolute has a wide variety of games and tournaments to choose from. However, the lack of traffic at their Omaha and 7-Stud venues relegates Absolute Poker to that of a holdem poker site.

Absolute Poker spreads fixed limit holdem in limits ranging from $0.02/$0.04 to $150/$300, with most traffic below the $5/$10 limit. Absolute also spreads No-limit and Pot-limit holdem at buy-ins ranging from $10 to $2500. There is short-handed traffic at most NL/PL levels, but fullring is once again relegated to the lower buy-ins. Omaha in it's High-only and Hi/Lo formats are spread at limits between $0.02/$0.04 and $75/$150, with most traffic at $3/$6 and below. PL and NL Omaha run from PL/NL10 tp PL/NL1000, with the bilk of the traffic at these games at the lower buy-ins. Although Absolute Poker offers 7-Card Stud in High-only, Hi/Lo and Razz variations, with limits ranging from $0.10/$0.25 to $25/$50, traffic is extremely sparse for this venue.

Absolute Poker allows 200 Big Blind Buy-ins for their NL and PL tables. Therefore, players buyin into a $0.05/$0.10 NL Holdem ring game can buy-in for as much as $20.00.

Absolute Poker offers a wide range of Multi-table tournaments [MTTs] and Sit and Gos [SnGs]. The SnGs run from two-player heads-up matches to 5 table games. Buy-ins run from $1000 heads-up matches to $0.50+$0.10 micro buy-ins. Their MTTs run between the $150+$12 $100K guaranteed weekly tournament to a variety of freerolls and Absolute Rewards Points freerolls. Players can usually find an MTT or SnG to suit their needs every hour of every day.

Absolute Poker Promotions

Players who sign up and deposit with Absolute Poker through one of ITH's banners or links are entitled to a lucrative first time deposit bonus of 150% up to $500. Players must use the bonus code, AP500, in order to receive the deposit bonus. Players will earn their bonuses by participating in raked hands and tournaments. Bonuses are released in $5 increments and players have 60 days to clear as much bonus as they can. Players earn $1 in bonus every time they acquire a number of credits equal to their FAME level, as seen on the following chart:

Sunday $200,000 Guarantee

Every Sunday, Absolute Poker hosts a $200,000 Guarantee tournament at 5:30PM EST. Direct buy-in for this weekly event is $200+$15, but players may qualify for as little at $1+$0.10 or 220 Credits. Players begin with 3,000 chips.

This tournament tends to grant an overlay each week, so players looking for a good value may like to try this tournament.

Steps@AP

The Perfect 10
To celebrate the launch of Steps at Absolute Poker, the first 10 players to win a WSOP seat will also receive an Aruba Classic buy-in worth $5,500.

For just 10 cents, you can win:

A chance to win poker's richest pot worth an estimated $10 million at the WSOP.

An Aruba Classic buy-in where the prize pool will be worth approximately $2 million, if you are one of the first ten players to qualify for the grand prize seat from STEP 1.

Last year's main event winner won more than $9 million.

Will you take it down in 2009?
It costs $10,000 to buy a seat to the World Series of Poker. At Absolute Poker, you can win one for just 10 cents.

$10 Million Extra
Still not tempted? How about a $10,000,000 sweetener?

Win the 2009 World Series of Poker, after qualifying through AP, wearing their branded gear, and they will add an extra $10,000,000 to the pot.

Get In Steps
Steps tournaments are great value for the money. In short, you buy in for just a few cents. If you finish in the top two, you 'step' up to a richer game. If you lose, you step backwards with the option to try again.

Tournament Leader Board

Absolute Poker's Tournament Leader Board (TLB) tracks the best tournament players every week, month and year.

The Top 100 Ranked tourney players for each month will be invited to play in a $2,000 FreeRoll. This event will be titled "Tourney Leader Board Monthly." Those eligible will be put on the restricted list and notified via email along with the date and time. The top 50 TLB leaders for the year will be invited to play in the Annual TLB Leaders' Challenge. This $20K FreeRoll will award one $10K entry to the World Series of Poker Main Event to the winner along with an Absolute Poker TLB Champion bracelet, with the remaining top places receiving an additional $10K in cash prizes.

Refer A Friend

Once your friend registers a new player account at Absolute Poker you will be notified by email. Upon your friend's first time deposit ($50 minimum) you will be notified once again of your friend's progress. Once your friend has played in 200 real money raked hands (minimum rake of $0.50) you will receive a final email stating that your player account has been credited with $75 and your friend's pending player account will be credited with $50.
The Referred Friend must be new to Absolute Poker.com and must not already have an Account at Absolute Poker.com under any other name or alias.

To receive the $50, the Referred Player must open an Account within 60 days of receiving the invitation email, and then make a minimum deposit of $50 or more at any time.

10 Million Play Chip Hall of Fame

Once you have accumulated 10 Million play chips you will receive an email notifying you that your total play chips have been reset to 20,000 and your player pending account will be credited $50.00. Your player nickname will be added to the Absolute Poker Play Chip Hall of Fame list. Non depositor players would receive the $50.00 bonus upon completion of their first time deposit. Your player pending account will then be credited the $50 - "10 Million Play Chip Hall of Fame bonus."

Bad Beat Jackpot

Look for Absolute Poker's new ‘Bad Beat Jackpot’ tables and watch our jackpot grow. They’ll collect $0.50 from the pot of each raked hand. The poker jackpot will keep growing until someone hits an unbelievable bad beat.

As soon as someone hits a qualifying bad beat, 70% of the jackpot will be shared between everyone at the online poker table where the bad beat went down. 20% will go towards the next jackpot and 10% will go to the house.

They’ll take the new amount and divide it amongst the players seated at the Bad Beat Jackpot table:

The loser of the hand – ie. the bad beat victim - will take 50% of the prize

The winner of the hand will take 25% of the prize

The rest of the players seated at the table will share the remaining 25%

Qualifying Terms & Conditions

Not all tables qualify for the Bad Beat Jackpot. Look for Absolute Poker's real money Texas Hold’em tables to play for the jackpot. Bad Beat Jackpot tables will be noted with the word “jackpot” written in brackets after the table name and will be categorized in red text in the lobby.

In order to qualify for the Bad Beat Jackpot, four or more players must be dealt in the hand and rake must be collected.

The losing hand must contain four eights (8888) or better.

Players sitting out at the Bad Beat Jackpot table are not eligible for the jackpot.

Both hole cards must be included in the winning and losing hand.

The hand must go to a showdown in order to qualify for the Bad Beat Jackpot.

Absolute Poker Stability

Absolute Poker has been in business since 2003. With a large player base and licensed in Canada, Absolute Poker strives to make their player's online experience both safe and trustworthy. All player's online monies are held in segregated accounts and are managed by the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Absolute Poker Security

Absolute Poker had a security breach in September 2007 where an inside employee was able to use several "superuser" accounts that were given holecard information. At first Absolute Poker denied any wrong doing but later confirmed the rumors and an external audit was performed. Players who were cheated have been compensated and new security measures were put in place. Players should proceed with caution before playing at Absolute.

Absolute Poker Customer Service

Absolute Poker has a decent Customer Service department. Response times are tied into their VIP Program, and speed of reply increases the higher the level VIP a player attains. Absolute Poker's Customer Service is email only, but is broken down into a number of departments like cashiering or tournament to make sure that specific issues are addressed more promptly and by the department that handles those specific concerns. Absolute Poker's Customer Service representatives are, therefore, usually very knowledgeable in the specifics of your queries. Initial cashout speeds are slow, but both NETeller and FirePay cashout speeds improve the more Absolute Poker's cashiering services become acquainted with each specific player.

Absolute Poker Poker Tracker Compatibility

Absolute Poker is Poker Tracker compatible. Poker Tracker supports both ring and tournament hand histories in all facets of online play including Holdem, Omaha, Stud and Razz.

Ability to Multitable at Absolute Poker

At Absolute poker, players are able to play on 6 tables simultaneously.

Multiple Absolute Poker Accounts per Household

If more than one person per household wants to play, you will need to contact management for assistance to set up the accounts. Two people can play at the same time from the same household, but not at the same table. This is one way Absolute Poker ensures that collusion cannot occur.

Absolute Poker Tournaments with Overlays

A tournament overlay is the result of guaranteed prize money that is not offset by the participant's buy-ins. As such, all freerolls always offer an overlay.

Although Absolute Poker is only a medium-size site, there is enough tournament traffic that very few tournaments will provide an overlay. The best chance for an overlay at Absolute Poker are those tournaments that occur in the early morning hours in the United States.