PartyPoker

PartyPoker boasts one of the best tournament schedules and cash game selections around and regularly organizes generous promotions such as the currently active $20M GTD Millions Online, the single biggest online MTT every player can qualify for.

It’s also known for one of the best cashback systems, offering to pay up to 40% cashback directly into your account every week.

PartyPoker Software

You can either choose to download and install PartyPoker free software application or play instantly in your browser. Beginners may want to start with free games before progressing on to real money tables. Lobby offers the choice of Cash, fastforward and Short Deck games, allowing members to pick between No Limit Hold’em, Fixed Limit Hold’em, Pot Limit Hold’em, Pot Limit Omaha, Short Deck and Fixed Limit 7 Card Stud.

They will also find Ante cash games where, in addition to the blinds, each player pays an obligatory contribution at the beginning of the hand. Tournaments run 24/7 and you’re sure to find one to suit your style thanks to a range of Single-table Sit & Go’s, Multi-table Sit & Go’s, Scheduled Multi-table tournaments, Shootouts and Knockout tournaments.

If you enter your favourite table configuration, Quick Seat (available for STTs and cash games) will get you to the table of your choice in next to no time. There’s also an option to set up a private table with preferred settings. Players can download PartyPoker app on their iOS and Android devices via partypoker.com to continue playing while out and about.

Cash Games

In limit games, the minimum buy-in is equal to 10 times the big blind and there’s no max buy-in. PL and NL games have both minimum and maximum buy-in, with the latter corresponding to the name of the game. NL Hold’em and PL Omaha feature stakes of $0.01/$0.02 to $100/$200. One can also play at No Limit Hold’em or Pot Limit Omaha fastforward tables with stakes ranging from $0.01/$0.02 up to $5/$10 and $91K in weekly prize money in exclusive fastforward leaderboards. Short Deck poker, also known as 6+ or Six Plus Hold’em, plays without cards valued below 6, requires that all players post an ante, A6789 is the low straight and Flush beats Full house. Stakes vary from $0.02 to $50 and buy-ins between $2 and $5,000.

Tournaments

SNGs are available in several variations – Heads-Up, Double or Nothing, Turbo and Hyper Turbo, allowing players to buy in for as little as $1 and as much as $1,000. PartyPoker also offers SPINS, fast-paced tournaments with a starting stack of 500 chips and blinds increasing every 3 minutes. Buy-in ranges between $0.20 and $250 with prize pools as high as $1.2 million.

Gladiator tournaments with PKO format are running daily, buy-in starts at $0.44 and prize pools are as high as $30K (midweek) and up to $150K (Sundays). Satellite tournaments offer an entry into targeted tourneys for a fraction of the cost, allowing players to join prestigious tournaments such as The CPP, Millions and the Grand Prix (all part of PartyPoker Live tour). PartyPoker doesn’t rake the bounty in Progressive Knockout tournaments so all bounties are bigger.

Welcome Bonus

The first deposit of £10 makes the new player eligible for £40 in fastforward cash bonuses and SPINS tickets. Fastforward is an exciting cash game where you can fold any time you choose and instantly get dealt a fresh hand at a new table. SPINS are fast 3-player games with a random multiplier which awards prizes of at least double your buy-in.

This is how it works: you’ll get 4x $2 fastforward cash bonus + 4x $1 SPINS ticket on day 1, 4x $1 SPINS ticket on day 2, 4x $2 fastforward cash bonus on day 3, 4x $1 fastforward cash bonus on day 4, 4x $2 fastforward cash bonus on day 5, and 2x $2 fastforward cash bonus + 3x $1 SPINS ticket on day 6.

This offer is only available to new UK players but it should be noted that deposits via Moneybookers won’t qualify. For a limited period of time, new members will also get three tickets for the above mentioned Million for Millions promotion offering daily chances to win $109 Millions Online satellites tickets.