Poker Room
PokerRoom is the world's leading no-download poker room, with a unique and sleek design and good traffic. There is a download version as well which has very nice graphics. PokerRoom has managed to get real soft games the last 12 months with their huge traffic increase. The focus is more on 6-handed tables than most other top rooms (together with InterPoker). PokerRoom.com is the best choice for Mac-users, who can play without any special installs. PokerRoom offers great statistical analysis of your game and an open database of the hands played at the site. There traffic is very concentrade to the Holdem and tournament section. A large proportion of the games are short-handed tables with 5 or 6 players. The sign up bonus is huge coming from our site, but the rake is slighly higher than industry average (partly due to all short-handed games). The games have become very juicy lately where soft games are found even up to $5/$10 no-limit Texas Holdem which is impressive. Real money player statistics - Aug, 2006: 4,500-5,000 ring game players at peak hours, 15,000-20,000 tournament players at peak hours.
The traffic at peak hours is currently 4,500-5,000 real money ring games players (Aug, 2006). The high limit tables in particular have grown very much since last year.
Good variety, but traffic very concentrated to Texas Holdem. Finally pot- and no-limit games as well as Omaha and seven-card stud (both Hi and Hi-Lo) were launched in the spring and summer 2004. (Omaha is both available in fixed-, pot- and no-limit where the no-limit version is rather unusual for Omaha, in particular in the Omaha High version). Five-Card Draw has been added in a software update, autumn 2005.
PokerRoom.com has a high-end software with its clean, sleek graphics, multi platform compatibility and reliability in uptime, etc. On the negative side, many players do not like the "playability" on PokerRoom.com, as it does not lend itself well to multi-table play (buttons too close, easy to time out, hard to see winning hand, etc) The software is available as both Java applet and as standard Windows download. The Java version is a great feature for Linux and Mac users who otherwise need a Windows emulator. The Java version is also for certain users who cannot download programs to the computer. The statistics functionality on your played hands in the various games is good, with extra features such as hourly win/loss rate and Big Bets won or lost. There is a random delay in the automated pre-selected actions a client can take, not to give away any extra information via an immediate check. Another nice feature is hand match up percentages in all-in situations during play. The lobby information is a little tricky to use, as you need to click on each table to get the full statistics. Recently added in the software update autumn 2005 is a lobby chat where all players logged in can share thoughts. PokerRoom also allow all their players to download poker games for mobile phones, called "Mobile poker". The software allows players the option to create private tournaments where you can choose your own buy-in, starting time etc. A nice feature is that you can create Team Tournaments where teams consisting of five to 10 players are created by a "Team Manager" and can participate in leagues.