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Party Poker Bonus Code:      150FREEFGO

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Party Poker Bonus Rating

60/70

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, 150FREEFGO, 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.

Players using this bonus code [150FREEFGO] can alternately receive a 30% up to $150 match bonus for Party Casino and Bets instead of the Poker Bonus. Playthrough requirements apply.

$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.

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, 150FREEFGO 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.

Players using this bonus code [ITH150] can alternately receive a 30% up to $150 match bonus for Party Casino and Bets instead of Poker bonus. Playthrough requirements apply.

$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.

World Series of Poker

It'severy player's dream to take a shot at the World Series of Poker. There's the giant prizepool: Last year's winner, Jerry Wang, took home more than $8 million after beating 6,358 othe 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 $10,000 Main Event buy-in,

• $1,000 Spending money,
• Accomodations in a luxurious five-star Las Vegas Hotel,
• Access to Party Poker's exclusive VIP hospitality suite,
• Transfers from the hotel to the venue. 
  

• 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.

Party Poker 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.

Party Poker 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.

Party Poker 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.

Party 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 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 Bonus

$150.

Tournament Clearance

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

Bonus Expiration Terms

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 Deposit Percentage

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

Stackability

Bonuses are not stackable at Party Poker.

Bonus Release Rate

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.

Network Chase Rating

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