Poker Rewards Software
Poker Rewards shares the MicroGaming [Prima] software of the network by the same name. Poker Reward's table is a blue tone felt with black leather and metal trim. Their cards are red-backed. Players are represented as blue placards that turn to gray when folded. Each position has a tan leather seat situated on a crimson carpet.
Players have a number of options including 4-color deck and various table sizes to choose from. There is a good statistics screen, auto-wrap note function and player "tagging" function available to the player to make playing at Poker Rewards more fun and profitable.
The main menu is well-laid out with a number of filters available to make a player's navigation easier. Cash games and tournaments can be toggled in the left-side filters. Players of cash games have access to Average Pot Size, Players per Flop and Hands per Hour statistics in the main menu to help facilitate table selection. However, if there are more than one page of tables for selection, they are laid out in contiguous pages which make it much more difficult to maneuver in and filter. Setting a filter by buy-in, for example, will not alter the entire page layouts from one page to another, but rather only on a per page basis. The cash game menus include hands per hour and average pot size as well as player percentage per flop.
Poker Reward's software is a bit slow. Items requiring refreshing sometimes take a while to do so, especially the tournament leaderboard screens. Like the main menu screens, the tournament position pages are contiguous and very difficult to navigate.
However, the table software at Poker Rewards flows with very few hang-ups and slowdowns in the action. Players always know where they are at in the hand as the player placards darken when players fold or sit out, and a nice optional feature of the red and green placard borders help differentiate between who has done an action and who is still awaiting an action.
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Poker Rewards Traffic
Poker Rewards, as part of the larger MicroGaming [Prima] Poker Network is one of the largest poker networks on the internet. With traffic consistently in the 15-20,000 player range, players will almost always find consistent cash game and tournament traffic to suit their needs.
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Poker Rewards Games
Players at Poker Rewards have a large variety of poker they can participate in, including Texas Hold'em, 7 and 5 Card Stud, Omaha and 5-Card Draw.
Texas Hold'em is available in all forms with 10, 6 and 2 seat formats. Fixed Limit is runs the gamut of blinds from $0.05/$0.10 to $150/$300 with most traffic at the $2/$4 and lower limits. PL is offered with buy-ins of PL10 to PL20000, and most traffic is centered around PL100 and lower. NL is available in buy-ins ranging from NL10 to NL40000, but traffic is only existent at NL1000 and below.
Omaha High and Omaha Hi/Lo, though offered in fixed limit and no-limit are most prevalently trafficked on the Pot-limit tables, once again with the majority of play happening on the short-handed tables.
7-Stud and 5-Stud get very little traffic, and usually at the very lowest microlimits. 5-Card Draw is lightly trafficked in the smaller NL and FL buy-ins.
MTTs get a very decent turnout. Players can find many tournaments and structures to suit their taste. Whether those tastes are guaranteed prizepool tournaments, freerolls, turbo tournaments or qualifiers to bigger events, all can be found at Poker Rewards.
SnGs are offered with buy-ins as low as $0.90/$0.10 up to and including $1000+$50. Players may play 2, 3, 5, 8 or 10 handed. There are also 15-seat [3 tables of 5], 20-seat [2 tables of 10], and 30-seat [3 tables of 10] SnGs. Poker Rewards also offers turbo SnGs, satellite SnGs to the $200K weekly guaranteed tournament and "Rounders" SnGs. These are step tournaments where progressive good showings can land you at the 5th round and the $3,000 first place prize.
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Poker Rewards Promotions
Players who sign up and deposit with Poker Rewards by clicking on one of ITH's many banners or links, will be entitled to a 50% up to $200 initial deposit bonus. There is no bonus code necessary. Players need to participate in 10 raked/dealt hands per bonus dollar. There is no expiration date to this bonus.
$150,000 Sunday Guarantee
Every Sunday at 3:00PM EST, Poker Rewards hosts their $150,000 Guarantee tournament. Direct buy-in is $60+$5 and players may win their way into the main event for as little as $6+$0.50 playing in one of many daily satellites offered each week.
Refer A Friend
Get up to $100 as a reward for introducing your friends to Poker Rewards. Provide up to 4 friend's email address and they are automatically sent an email about Poker Rewards. If they decide to join then you will be given 2,500 VIP points (worth $25) per friend that joins.
Bad Beat Jackpot
Four of a Kind or better is beaten. The loser of the hand receives 50% of the progressive bad beat jackpot, the winner gets 25%, and the remaining 25% is split among the other players in the hand. Both of the winning and losing hands must use both hole cards to qualify.
Magic Hand
From time to time Poker Rewards management picks a hand number at random in advance and declares it a Magic Hand and establishes what the prizes will be. When that magic hand is dealt, the winner of the hand wins the main prize and all other players in the game each get a second bonus amount. (If you sit out you don't qualify!)
The Magic Hand bonus of $500 will be awarded every 1,000,000 hands dealt (approximately every 2 days).
Three people must receive cards in the hand
Must be a real money table
Must be a ring game table (Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 5 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud)
Winner of the hand will get $250
All other players that received cards will have $250 divided equally amongst them.
There will also be a special prize for every 10,000,000 hands dealt of $1000 (a single $500 bonus plus $500 divided equally among the participating players).
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Poker Rewards Stability
Poker Rewards has been in the Online Poker Business, pretty much since it started. They have partnered up with Casino Rewards, a trusted and organized Online gaming Company that has been in operation since the year 2000. As part of the very large MicroGaming [Prima] Poker Network, Poker Rewards shares it's tables, players and stability with the larger network as a whole.
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Poker Rewards Security
Poker Rewards understands that the security of your personal information is extremely important to you, because it is important to them. They trust in nothing but the best when it comes to security systems online, and use the 128-bit encryption technology when transferring data over the Internet. Poker Rewards uses Price Waterhouse Coopers as it's auditing firm to ensure that they have unbiased random number generation of cards and that their software is secure and virus free.
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Poker Rewards Customer Service
Poker Rewards has email and telephone customer service. The telephone numbers are toll-free where they apply. Email customer service is both concisely replied to and always relevant to the questions asked. Customer service is friendly and supportive and the average reply speed is generally under one hour. Cash out speed is average with NETeller and FirePay being the fastest in terms of turnaround time.
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Poker Tracker Compatibility with Poker Rewards
Poker Rewards is compatible with Poker Tracker in all forms of Holdem, Omaha and Stud cash games, but is only compatible at this time with tournaments of Texas Holdem. Should this change in the future, ITH will update this information.
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Ability to Multitable at Poker Rewards
Players at Poker Rewards are allowed to play up to 10 tables simultaneously.
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Multiple Poker Rewards Accounts per Household
Poker Rewards allows only one account per household, per person. Violators run the risk of having their account shutdown and all money seized and/or confiscated.
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Poker Rewards Reload Bonus Frequency
MicroGaming sites are not well-known for reload bonuses. Poker Rewards fits within this generalization. In the past, most Microgaming reloads have tended to be user-specific and based on the individual site criteria for offering bonuses. Ant reloads that may occur in the future will be included in Poker Reward's bonus information.
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Poker Rewards 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 FPP freerolls always offer an overlay.
Poker Rewards offers many different and varied tournaments throughout the day, including freerolls and guaranteed prizepool tournaments. Despite being part of one of the largest poker networks on the internet, Poker Rewards occasionally has guaranteed prizepool tournaments that offer overlays.
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Maximum Amount of Poker Rewards Bonus
$200
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Bonuses Cleared During Poker Rewards Tournaments
Tournament play at Poker Rewards will not count towards the release of bonuses. Players wishing to chase a bonus at Poker Rewards can only do so through cash game play.
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Time Allowed to Clear Poker Rewards Bonus
There is no expiration date on the initial deposit bonus at Poker Rewards.
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Poker Rewards Withdrawal Restrictions
Withdrawals can be made prior to clearing a bonus, but ITH suggests waiting 48 hours after each deposit before requesting a cashout.
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Bonus as a %age of Poker Rewards Deposit
50%
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Are Poker Rewards Bonuses Stackable?
Bonuses are not stackable at Poker Rewards at this time. Should this change in the future, ITH will update this information.
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Poker Rewards Bonus to Table or Cleared?
All bonuses at Poker Rewards clear in one lump sum. Since there are no expiration dates on bonuses, players may clear at their leisure.
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Can Poker Rewards Bonuses be Chased on 1+ Skin?
Players are free to chase as many MicroGaming bonuses as they wish as long as sub-divisions within MicroGaming allow their bonuses to be chased.
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Piscivorous Discretionary Poker Rewards Bonus Rating
Poker Rewards' T&Cs state that a hand is considered raked if a minimum of $0.25 is raked in the hand. However, a few ITH players at Poker Rewards have stated that they are getting conflicting information from site customer srevice that some of their raked hands do not count due to them not being "qualified" raked hands. ITH is attempting to clear this up.
Legalese aside, Poker Rewards has a decent bonus of $200, with no expirations and a 10x bonus clearance rate. Add to this the VIP Program where players are given a rakeback deal of at least 10% and can cash-in their Poker Rewards for cash, and Poker Rewards is more than a bonus chasing site.
The bonus, however, is unclearable in tournaments and any bonuses at Poker Rewards cannot be stacked. Reload bonuses tend to be user specific and not generic, but also not as lucrative as their initial deposit bonuses.
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Internet Texas Holdem Free Poker Bonus Gift Offer Items Rating
Poker Rewards is not currently on the Free Gift Offer program. Should this condition change in the future, ITH will update this information.
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