Party Poker Software

Party Poker's software is graphically standard. Their basic table layout is standard green felt, wood trimmed in appearance. Players are represented as avatars and placards sitting upon reddish chairs on a tan carpet. There are a number of table modifications that can be found on the internet, allowing players to replace the rather bland default graphics with those of their choosing and eliminating the avatars altogether.

Party Poker has re-sizable tables, allowing players to fit many more tables on their monitor without overlap.

The software interface is very good, with very few bugs. The note-taking function is auto-wrapping and saves on the user's harddrive, but there is a maximum character hindrance for each player's notes. The statistics screen has a lot of information, but in ITH's experience has a flaw with regard to how they tabulate winning percentages. Players can toggle 4-color deck and can change the cardbacks themselves.

The main menus are easily navigated. Unfortunately, the cash game menus do not display "players seeing the flop" percentages, making table selection problematic. The menus are easily filterable providing the player an opportunity to quickly find any item he/she is looking for.

Overall, Party Poker's software is decent.

Party Poker Traffic

Party Poker's stance on disallowing players from the United States from playing at the poker site has severely impacted their player traffic. Although they are still a large traffic site, they no longer are the largest site on the internet. Party Poker is attempting to expand their player base by targetting Europe and Southeast Asia.

Party Poker Games

Party Poker has a wide variety of games, limits and buy-ins as well as SnGs and tournaments to choose from. Party Poker also hosts many jackpot tables.

Party Poker offers beginners Texas Holdem Tables in both fixed limit and no limit with stakes from $0.02/$0.04 to $1/$2. New real money players can play on these tables for 45 days after they have set up a real money account. The regular Hold'em tables have fixed limit stakes ranging from $0.05/$0.10 to $100/$200. No limit buy-ins range from NL4 to NL5000, while Pot Limit has buy-ins of PL25 to PL2000. Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo are available in both Fixed Limit and Pot Limit formats. The Fixed Limit stakes run from $0.50/$1 to $30/$60, while the Pot Limit buy-ins range from PL25 to PL2000. 7-Card Stud is available in Fixed Limit only and is both High-only and Hi/Lo with stakes of $0.50/$1 through $30/$60.

Party Poker offers many guaranteed prizepool tournaments, satellites and qualifiers for their bigger prizepool tournaments, many Player Point and standard freerolls, as well as freerolls for new members.

Party Poker has single table SnGs with buy-ins ranging from $3 to $530, as well as 20, 30 and 50 seat SnGs with buy-ins of $6 to $55. They are also the host of the Party Steps Tournaments, pioneering this form of SnG, where players can win their way up the steps to the pinnacle of the ladder and win upwards of $10,000 or even seats to the World Series of Poker.

Party Poker Promotions

Players who sign up and deposit with Party Poker through one of ITH's banners or links are entitled to Party Poker's initial deposit bonuses. Party Poker offers members of ITH two distinct bonuses:

30% up to $150
Players wishing to use this bonus must use the bonus code, ITHFREEFGO, to receive this bonus. Players need to accumulate 4 Party Points for each dollar of bonus within 30 days if using this solely as a poker bonus, otherwise the bonus is forfeit.

Alternately, players may use the above code for a 30% up to $150 bonus in Party Poker's Casino and Bets.

Players will not receive this bonus in both Party Poker and Party Casino and Bets.

$25 Flat Bonus
Players who have less than $80 to deposit into Party Poker are suggested to use this option. Players need to use bonus code 25FREEFGO. This is a two-part bonus. Players using this option will receive $25 in Poker/Gammon bonus and $25 in Casino/Bets bonus. Players must earn 4 Party Points per $1 in Poker Bonus.

Party Poker currently belongs to the Free Gift Offer at ITH. Players who open a real money account with Party Poker through one of ITH's links or banners and deposit a minimum of $50 are eligible for the Free Gift Offer. Players will need to accumulate a minimum of 50 Party Points to qualify for the Free Gift Offer.

After satisfying your requirements, simply go into the Free Gift Offer webpage and click on the "Finished the Requirements? Claim Now!" button and fill out the criteria to receive your free gift.

Restrictions: Players who have already opened a play money or real money account at Party Poker are not eligible for this offer. If you already have an account, opening up a new account with a different username does not make you eligible for the free book. This offer is exclusive to www.InternetTexasHoldem.com so you must use one of the links provided on this website. Accounts set up through other websites are not eligible for the free books. Please ensure that you follow the directions provided to ensure that you receive proper credit for the free books.

Sunday $300,000 Guarantee

Party Poker hosts a $300,000 Sunday No-limit Holdem Tournament at 12:45PM EST. Direct buy-in is $200+$15. Players can qualify through sub-qualifiers and satellites for as low as $3. Multiple entries to the $300,000 Guaranteed tournament will not be refunded. Winners of any $300,000 Qualifiers that finish after registration has closed for the $300,000 Guaranteed Tournament happening that week will be registered for the $300,000 Guaranteed Tournament happening the following week.

APT Manila

Beautiful coral reefs, tropical forests, world-class nightlife: The Philippines has it all. That's why it's the perfect place to host this year's inaugural Asian Poker Tour (APT) event, which takes place from May 27 through June 1.

Four hundred poker players from around the globe will be competing for $1 million and PartyPoker will be giving 11 lucky winners a chance to join the action.

Party Poker's $6,000 prize packages include:

$2,500 main event fee

Seven nights at the world-class Dusit Thani Manila Hotel

$2,500 in spending money so you can get out and enjoy everything the Philippines has to offer.

To win your dream ticket to Manila, players may buy-in to the twice weekly APT Manilla Satellites for $300+$20, the $35 sub-qualifiers which run daily, or one of many $1 and $4 super satellites that feed into the daily $35.

There will be a maximum of 11 Event Packages awarded.

World Series of Poker

It's every player's dream to take a shot at the World Series of Poker. There's the giant prize pool: Last year's winner Jerry Yang took home more than $8 million after beating 6,358 other players. Then there's the chance to join the former WSOP® champions in the poker history books.

Of course, you'll love the amazing Las Vegas experience the WSOP guarantees.

This year's WSOP Main Event is going to be huge: The action's taking place in the Rio's gigantic Amazon Room, and the field will be so large that the first day is being split into four starting days. To make sure you're one of the first to grab a seat, play in Party Poker's WSOP qualifiers, where you could win a package worth $11,000, including:

Your buy-in to the Main Event, worth $10,000

$1,000 spending money

Accommodation in a luxurious five-star Las Vegas Hotel

Access to PartyPoker.com's exclusive VIP hospitality suite

Transfers from the hotel to the venue

WSOP Satellites run each Friday at 6:00PM EST with a direct buy-in cost of $550+$30. For every 20 players a $11,000 package to the 2008 WSOP in Las Vegas is awarded. 2 WSOP Packages Guaranteed.

Player can super-satellite in either through SnGs or MTTs for as little as $1!

Refer A Friend

Tell your friends about PartyPoker and you could earn $50 while your friends will get $25 each.

How to sign your friends up:

Enter your friends’ names and email address on Party Poker's website.

Party Poker will send each referred friend an email from you containing sign-up instructions for PartyPoker.

Your friends download the Party Poker software and register for an account using the bonus code provided in the email.

Both of your accounts receive the bonus once release restrictions are fulfilled.

Hellkat SnGs

Now you can play even when you only have a few minutes to spare with Party Poker's HellKat, time-based Sit & Go tournaments. They last either 5, 10, 15 or 20 minutes and have buy-ins, ranging from $3 to $120.

The ultimate in convenience
After the final hand has been completed, the top three players will split the tournament prize pool according to the chip count.

There are two types of time-based tournaments:
Fixed-length tournaments which end after a specific period of time, and random-length tournaments which may end earlier, by up to 10% of the remaining playing time. All time-based tournaments will end after a complete hand has been played, rather than stopping mid-hand.

Bad Beat Jackpot

Party Poker offers a Bad Beat Jackpot
Bad Beat Jackpots will be paid out on the real money Hold'em games available titled 'Jackpot' under the Cash Games tabs. Four or more players must be dealt into the hand. Players sitting out do not qualify for the jackpot. Party Poker will take $0.50 each raked pot ($5.00 pot minimum) as a Bad Beat Jackpot rake. A jackpot is hit when a player with four 8s or better is beaten. The best hands of both the winner and the loser must include their hole cards, and the hand must go to a showdown. 50% of the amount will go to the loser of the hand (the bad beat), 25% to the winner, and 25% will be split between the other seated players who actively participated in the hand.

Stability

Party Poker, with clientele numbering in the millions, is part of Party Gaming, which is a publicly traded company on the London Stock Exchange. Several well-known poker personalities back the site. Cashout speeds, equal or exceed the industry norm. Party Poker's longevity, popularity and attention to security details ensures that your play and money are very secure here.

Security

Party Poker employs a number of security measures to ensure safety and fairness in all of its games. Their Random Number Generator is encrypted to ensure fairness and an even distribution of cards. Their investigations teams function around the clock to ensure the games are fair, and that cheating, hacking and collusion are detected by their software. Cashouts are verified both automatically and manually to ensure that no fraudulent activity occurred. They also post a Security Message and blocking software between Associated Users to ensure that two players who have been closely associated using various parameters cannot sit at the same table together. This has the benefit of stopping certain forms of collusion from occurring. The security of Party Poker is top-notch.

Party Poker Customer Service

Party Poker has a large support staff. Customer Support is tied into their "Player's Club" VIP Program. Those at the top end of the VIP Program get top priority in answering emails, and the level of customer support degrades from there. Both new players and those players who play sporadically will have problems getting their emails answered expediently by Party Poker's customer support.

Party does have toll-free phone numbers, and this usually is the best recourse to having your questions answered in a timely manner.

Poker Tracker Compatibility

Party Poker is Poker Tracker compatible. As the first site to join Poker Tracker, the two run seamlessly together. Party Poker and Poker Tracker allow Holdem, Omaha and Stud ring games as well as tournament result to be incorporated into Poker Tracker. Party Poker allows all hand histories to be written to a player's harddrive.

Ability to Multitable

You may play on as many tables at Party Poker as you desire. Their software allows you to minimize their tables, allowing more tables to fit upon monitors of all sizes. For example, monitors sporting 1600x1200 resolution will allow up to 9 tables with no overlap.

Multiple Accounts per Household

Multiple Household Accounts are allowed at Party Poker. Players may be asked for verification from Party Poker directly or from their cashiering service - PayPro, as part of an identification process.

Players who are associated in this way cannot play on the same tables or SnGs. They can however, play in the same multi-table tournaments, but cannot be situated on the same table, unless both make it to the final table. This security feature is to help ensure that two associated players cannot collude.

Reload Bonus Frequency

Party Poker usually offers reload bonuses on a monthly basis. These bonuses tend to be player specific bonuses rather than single-structure reload bonuses. As such, reloads can vary from user to user, and players are made aware of such offers by a pop-up text box upon log-in to Party Poker. The variation, percentage and bonus total of such reloads increases the more you play there. Bonus codes are provided to each user in the pop-up, as well as a time period the bonus is good for, and any expiration terms.

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 and Party Point freerolls always offer an overlay.

Despite the drop-off in traffic at Party Poker , overlays in their guarnateed tournaments are rare. Players looking for an overlay at Party Poker will find them in Party's freerolls and Player Point freerolls.

Maximum Amount of Bonus

$150.

Bonuses Cleared During Tournaments

Bonuses at Party Poker can not be cleared using tournament or SnG play.

Time Allowed to Clear Bonus

Initial Deposit and iGM-Pay bonuses have a clearance timeframe of 30 days.

Most generic and player-specific reload bonuses have a clearance timeframe ranging from 7 to 10 days. Both types of reload bonuses will explicitly state how long a pending bonus has to be cleared.

Withdrawal Restrictions

If you have received complimentary or bonus money into your Party Account, you must comply with any bonus restriction contained in the offer and/or with Party Poker's terms and conditions. If you have not satisfied these restrictions, then you will not be able to withdraw any amount until you satisfy the bonus restrictions.Party has been known in the past to disallow bonuses to players who have cashed out within 7-10 days prior to the bonus period.

Bonus as a %age of Deposit

100% for Casino/Bets. 30% for Poker/Gammon.

Are Bonuses Stackable?

Bonuses are not stackable at Party Poker.

Bonus to Table or Cleared?

Party Poker bonuses need to be cleared before the player has access to the bonus funds. Complimentary bonus money will be added to your account and you may play with it. It cannot be cashed out until the full release requirements have been met.

Can Bonuses be Chased on 1+ Skin?

Players with accounts at both Party Poker and Empire Poker are allowed to chase bonuses at both sites.

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Party Poker has completely re-tooled the way players can clear bonuses there. Player need to earn 4 Party Points for each bonus dollar. Players earn, for instance, 3.5 Party Points for each 20 raked hands at $1/$2 fixed limit. A base Jack-level player, therefore, would need to play in 23 raked hands in order to clear $1 in bonus. This, on the surface, makes this slightly less than a 23x bonus if playing these stakes. Indeed it is for those players who decide to hit and run Party bonuses. For the players who play consistently at Party, however, the bonuses here can be quite lucrative, even at the $0.50/$1 limit. Each level above the entry level Jack status, the earnrate increases. So if you manage to attain Queen level, your raked hands neede drop by half to around 11x. Keep going and ultimately an Ace level player can get 14 Party Points for 20 raked hands, effectively clearing $3.50 every 20 raked hands. This is between 5 and 6x raked hand requirements. A step further into the $2/$4 fixed limit and a player could earn 44 Party Points for every 20 raked hands ace an Ace level player. That's $11 for every 20 raked hands. Put another way, that's a 1.8x raked hand requirement. Although the bonus doesn't clear as well at the micro-limits as it once did, or even the $1/$2 limit, the fact of the matter is that Party Poker has initiated a player program for bonuses that reward their loyal players, but that also doesn't shut out those players who play there sporadically looking for the best bonuses. In my heyday as a Party-only player, I would have enjoyed a player VIP program like they offer now. My bonuses would have cleared faster and I would have accrued more Party Points quicker. Party Poker does have one glaring deficiency. They don't reward their players with Party Points for tournament and SnG play. In my opinion, this could easily be remedied.

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Party Poker currently belongs to the Free Gift Offer at ITH. Players who open a real money account with Party Poker through one of ITH's links or banners and deposit a minimum of $50 are eligible for the Free Gift Offer. Players will need to accumulate a minimum of 50 Party Points to qualify for the Free Gift Offer.

After satisfying your requirements, simply go into the Free Gift Offer webpage and click on the "Finished the Requirements? Claim Now!" button and fill out the criteria to receive your free gift.

Restrictions: Players who have already opened a play money or real money account at Party Poker are not eligible for this offer. If you already have an account, opening up a new account with a different username does not make you eligible for the free book. This offer is exclusive to www.InternetTexasHoldem.com so you must use one of the links provided on this website. Accounts set up through other websites are not eligible for the free books. Please ensure that you follow the directions provided to ensure that you receive proper credit for the free books.

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