Pacific Poker Review

Pacific Poker is an up and coming room that has been growing steadily in volume for several years. They have monthly ongoing promotions and freerolls. You can only play one table at a time, which is a good feature for a beginner, but may bore some more seasoned players. Some of the wildest games online can be found here. This is as good a place as any to start playing poker.

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Pacific Poker is attached to a casino which makes for many wild loose games with many players wanting to take a peak at the flop. The view flop percentages for most games are usually 50% or higher, sometimes as high as 80%! Omaha games are played especially poorly. Put on your seat belt, but expect to win if you can play some tight aggressive poker.

High traffic, but mostly in Holdem ring games and tournaments. Several Omaha Hi-Lo and 7-Card-Stud High games can be found at peak hours.

Pacific Poker has tournament traffic of typically over 4,000 real money players at peak hours.

Good variety, but most of the volume is concentrated to Holdem. Pacific Poker also has 1-on-1 tables, which Party Poker does not have. The micro-limit tables start at $0.05/$0.10 and the max limit is $15/$30 in all games, except for 1-on-1 ring game which is only $3/$6.

Pacific Poker is overall better at the micro-levels. Pacific Poker has a "No Flop - No Drop" rake policy, which means that they only rake the pot when the flop is reached. A maximum of $1.25 is taken out of the pots up to $1/$2 games. At limits below $1/$2 less than $1 is taken, which gives good value for low limit players.

E-mail support, live chat and phone support. Usually you will get reliable information in a timely manner.

Pacific Poker has numerous guaranteed money tournaments, WSOP/WPT qualifiers, and Royal Flush/Bad Beat jackpots.

Pacific Poker software is good, although it can be slow and buggy at times. It has improved tremendously lately due to recent upgrades. Only being allowed to play one table at a time may be considered the biggest drawback to this site, but it does keep the multi-tabling professionals away. The software runs very smoothly and makes for easy playability with advanced option buttons. Account balances are updated in real time and there is a nice-looking hand re-play feature. Also, you can find detailed information in the lobby including flop percentages and hands played per hour to optimize your game selection process. Ring games and tournaments are compatible with Poker Tracker, a Windows based computer program that allows you to analyze your on-line Texas HoldEm play. Poker Tracker stores and summarizes hand history data that can be downloaded from your poker site. It’s a valuable tool and if used properly will significantly increase your profits.