Pacific Poker Review

Pacific Poker is one of Europes top online rooms and has continuously strived for financial security while giving players. Pacific Poker is owned by the 888.com group who also operate an online casino and soon to be a sportsbook. The poker room hosts large guaranteed payments, a nice sign up bonus, bad beat jackpots along with a casino within the poker room. They have received a few awards over the years from Online Gambling Magazine for such things as software, security and in 2005 and 2006 was named "Best Operator" from both Online Gambling Magazine and egaming.

*Pacific Poker is well known for having the most poker fish.

Pacific Poker has quite a few novice players and of course this provides for some weak and reckless games. Micro and limit tables attract plenty of beginners who on a regular basis have a viewed flop percentage up to 55%. Omaha games in this spread are just as packed with action. Once you climb the stakes this seems to level out a bit and you can find some very competitive and skilled players. Tournament play is no different in this room and it can be assumed that the loose games are thanks to the casino players

Pacific Poker Bonus

First you get a 25% Instant Bonus (up to $100) then you earn the rest of your bonus (75% up to $300) by accumulating Comp Points. Collect 10 Comp Points per $1 of your first deposit and the rest of the bonus is yours!

PLUS - Every new player that makes a first deposit will get to play in the weekly $1,000 Freeroll tournament for New Depositors.

Pacific Poker Software

The software is very reliable, well designed and offers good playability. Once you download the poker room you will have the options to play for real or play money each time you log on. The lobby is designed for easy navigation and is free of any cluttered menu options. The in lobby menu supports game data like average hands per hour, viewed flop percentage as well as player stack size. If anything you should look at the viewed flop percentage for this room to figure out what kind of a table you want to play. Pacific Poker does allow players to multi table up to four tables with no interruptions during your game play. The tables have recently integrated three dimensional avatars with the option to choose which character you wish to use.

Pacific Poker Ring Games

Ring games are supported in Texas Holdem, Omaha, Stud and 5-Card with the majority of the player’s focusing on the Holdem tables. Since Pacific is such a major player in the European market you can look forward to tables that are quite busy throughout the peak hours. They can easily attract over 10,000 real money players. Stakes begin at the micro level of 2p/4p and escalate to €50/ €100. You may not find a lot of players at the higher limits during slower periods of the day. Most of Pacific Pokers player base is low to medium stake players. Pacific Poker takes a fixed rake of 5% up to €3. This is the industry standard for most rooms.

Pacific Poker Tournaments

If you enjoy fast paced tournaments than you will defiantly like what Pacific has in their line up. Tournaments include guaranteed payments, freezeouts, turbo (which are incredibly fast) and shorthanded. The games are well structured and available throughout the day. The majority of guaranteed tournaments are held during the poker rooms high traffic hours. Weekly GP’s can be entered through qualifiers or SNG tournaments for a couple of dollars and can climb as high as a few hundred. On occasions the guaranteed tournaments can provide an overlay depending on the time of the day. Sit N Go tournaments are very popular, with a good variety of buyins for all bankrolls.